The gog prices aren't that bad, I think Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny were about $10 each when they were still being sold as downloads at idsoftware.com. I don't think I would pay that for Castle Wolfenstein though...

Can't say Id pay for those. Always thought they were crap.

I just watched some gameplay of those..

Pretty bad. =D

If gog would add them as free games I guess I could play them few minutes.

Since they haven't seen a digital release yet and aren't owned by Bethesda, I doubt that they would price them that much. I think that the only reason why Wolfenstein 3D is sold here for $10 in the first place, is because it also includes the Spear of Destiny expansion, which Bethesda sells separately on Steam for the same price as Wolfenstein 3D (5+5=10, the same as GOG's price).

Probably because the 6th episode wasn't published by Apogee, but by FormGen (who now belongs to Atari) and as such, there are probably conflicts of ownership rights.

I know, I was only kidding.

Re: Keen 6, wasn't Spear of Destiny also published by FormGen? Seems they worked out the rights to that one.

It's possible that FormGen had only distribution rights for Spear of Destiny and ownership rights for Commander Keen 6 (interestingly, Apogee had distribution rights for Commander Keen 6 that expired).

Strange, Keen Dreams' store page just updated the publisher info as just Harddisk Productions, with id Software as the developer.

Well, previously it mentioned both Hard Disk Publishing and Bethesda as the publishers.

Interesting, I didn't realize there actually was a PC (DOS) version of the first Castle Wolfenstein game. I thought it was only for the 8-bit systems like Apple IIc, Commodore 64 and Atari somethingsomething.

EDIT: Oh, apparently the DOS version came many years after the original (1981 vs 1984). I was actually wondering how come a DOS game could appear in 1981, that was more like CP/M era still.

The sequel was not listed for DOS, but for "PC Booter". What is a PC Booter?

It's a term used after harddisks becoming mainstream in PC's, basically PC Booter means that the game boots directly from floppy/media, which was normal on all early PC's and homecomputers.

I actually had the first one for my Apple ][c back in the day, played with a green monochrome monitor. One of the very first games I had after upgrading from the TRS-80.

From what little I can recall, it would barely qualify as a game by today's standards.

This is roughly what I recall it looking like.

Keen Dreams' source code was released last year and it's on Steam Greenlight. This also reminds me to find out what happened with the final release, I haven't heard anything in quite a while.

EDIT: Apparently the keys for those of us that backed the campaign should be coming in the near future.

Did John Carmack have anything to do with those games?

Ie. the floppy game doesn't install on the hard disk, but reads and writes all the game data to/from the floppy?

I guess I came to PC gaming after it had become a norm that PC games are completely installed on the hard disk, and if there was any "DRM", it would be something like asking for a keyword from the manual. The floppies were usually used only during the installation.

Then again, I have a faint recollection of playing Sopwith from a floppy disk as a kid...

Yeah, he probably played them as a kid on his father's Apple IIc.