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[Simmura McCrea]

I noticed the X-COM complete pack is nice and cheap on Steam, and was wondering if the games actually worked via Steam. Anyone got any knowledge of problems etc.?

[Hugehead]

If you can run DosBox you can run them, Steam uses it to run them.

[Cthulhu]

You may want to modify the CPU settings on DOSBox though, the games can be really slow on it.  Also you should probably get XComUtil which seems to stabilize them a bit, otherwise you get a lot of crashes after a while.

[Simmura McCrea]

All right, cheers.

[Fikes]

I bought it a while back. I think I had to bump the speed in 1 and 2, but other than that they ran fine. Apoc didn't seem to have any new problems on steam, though it does crash every 4 or 5 missions.

You are not able to use a Joystick in Interceptor. I forget the reason, but everywhere I looked said it was impossible. Granted, I did not look that hard. Enforcer didn't seem to run right at all, but I never had the desire to play it anyways.

[Simmura McCrea]

XCOMUtil is refusing to run. It keeps saying "Game not found in this directory", despite being in the UFO Defence directory.

EDIT: Disregard that.

[Cthulhu]

Try downloading the installer and when it asks for an installation path do C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\xcom ufo defense\XCOM\

[alway]

I bought all 5 for really cheap back during that summer sale they had, dunno about the 4 sequels (haven't got around to them yet), but the original runs perfectly.

[Simmura McCrea]

Dear god this is hard. 2 missions brought 10 casualties.

[nenjin]

Steam actually has DOS-BOX incorporated into the download and executable for that?

Man, I hope those guys made some serious money off that deal.

[Frumple]

I'd be kinda' interested to know how that went down, m'self. Dosbox is apparently open source, but I couldn't find information on what license it's under during a cursory search of their website an'wiki, so gods only know if th'steam folks were required to toss money back at the dosbox folks.

<Moments later>
Seems it's GPL3 'ccording to the forum. Guess I missed something on the front page or whatever. Either way, I can only guess steam isn't doing something legally fishy by charging something involving a free program. I'd assume they're charging for the game instead of the dosbox emulator.

So I guess the answer to the question "Does the dosbox folks get a cut" is... probably not? Don't really know my way around all that license rigmarole.

[Calhoun]

I seriously doubt the guys responsible for Dosbox get a cut. I mean, it's not like you can't easily obtain it. I seriously doubt GOG also give them a cut either.

[nenjin]

That makes me sad. Although I guess it depends on what license Dos-box was created and all that other junk. Still....it's a great program, it strikes me as wrong Valve of all people gets to just use it for free.

Ah well.

[Cthulhu]

It would be one thing if they were distributing it illegally or something, but it's a free program you can get off the internet in two seconds, Valve just went through the trouble of bundling and configuring it for you.

[Soulwynd]

It would be one thing if they were distributing it illegally or something, but it's a free program you can get off the internet in two seconds, Valve just went through the trouble of bundling and configuring it wrong for you.

Fixed.