GOG.com returns with site redesign Online seller of past-their-prime games GOG.com is back, claiming not to have closed down but mere come out of beta status. Given GOG.com has been around for two years, that's one heck of a 'testing' phase - which just goes to show how misused and redundant the term has become these days. Rather than move from a closely …
When my old mother (cue violins) got a new laptop to replace her ancient, irreparably busted PC, do you think her favourite DOS game would run on XP?
Of course not.
Not because of the game itself (the demo version worked), but because of the fscking CD copy-protection.
I certainly learned my lesson and haven't shelled out for any copy-protected SW for my PC, or my mum's, since.
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