GoG's got its spring sale going. There's some alright stuff there, most of which I bought because I'm on a mobile/ PC emulation binge, and I wanted to see what I could get working. These are all in Aussie dollary-doos.
Xcom2 + War of the Chosen was about $10 all up.
Alone in the Dark trilogy was 89cents (!)
Might and Magic 1-6 was $3.79
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 complete was $3.79
Heroes of Might and Magic 4 complete was $3.79
Ultima 4+5+6 was $2.29
Ultima 7 + Serpent Isle complete was $2.29
Syndicate Plus + Syndicate Wars was $4.58
Dawn of War 1 complete was $12
Just Cause 1+2 complete was $6
Alpha Centauri+ Crossfire was $3.09
Serious Sam First and Second Encounter were $1.69 each
(Remember, all these are heaps cheaper in USD$, ~$40'ish or cheaper. But $56 dollary doos well spent. Odds on 200-300 hours of gaming, right there, even if I don't play some of them. A fair few of the non-RPG ones have mods too, so there's a lot there.)
(And I want to track down the PC Format #23 Cover Disk, because they literally gave you C++ code for using the original Syndicate resources. Turns out there's multiple numbering systems. Oh, hey, I found it here:
https://beigebox.co.uk/retro/coverdisk-archive-pc-format/Just needed ZArchiver to extract it properly, Rar thought it was corrupted.
Dropbox'y link, if you're interested in really old C code, with demo of American Revolt to play with (love those jet sounds):
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/3u35rlfb75lctphitzi30/h?rlkey=qup0rh7wtku5xexy71ef5mgar&dl=0And a linky to the whole disk, and disk 27 (with the American Revolt demo on it), so you've got stuff to play with, just for completion's sake:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/q7gp09ehsqdksuf85eeyu/h?rlkey=qh3w0wwek55mmigun7jnc778w&dl=0Now, I'm going to download X-Ripper to grab the .voc files out, for those crispy shotgun sounds, *and* work out how to rip the graphics too.
Also fun to rip .voc files from, is the Space Hulk demo:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjscre1f5k83pi5vtoi16/spacehulkdemo.zip?rlkey=waq6m1nfavc6zdzxs2lftddl0&dl=0Awesome, because it did it through your PC speaker, no Sound Blaster required)
And there's heaps more games on special than that. Yeah, sure, I could yo-ho them, but at that price, it's nice to have them sitting there in an easily accessible library for any future computer upgrades. Kind of like steam, but easier to run through emulation. Buggers me how I'll set up all these touchscreen interfaces on my phone, but I'll work it out if I get these games going pretty easily.