Okay but this is GOGs issue, not the publishers issue... if GOG will need way to much time for adapting the game to their platform.

Regarding preservation... guess i got you wrong. Well the game in its entire state is surely always needed, as we need all the stuff that comes with it. If the source code is required i can not say... it is a big bonus for sure but if we got the full game already... in a pristine shape... a lot is done already.

Yep, agreed :)
Not the publishers fault, no.

GOG only brought back one game, that is not enough for preservation efforts when there are so many still being delisted.

Hey...

Have you tried this (?): [url=https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Ground_Control_II:_Operation_Exodus#Issues_fixed]https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Ground_Control_II:_Operation_Exodus#Issues_fixed[/url]

If none of this works, and if you're still interested in playing GC 2, do yourself a favor and buy it on the ZOOM Platform... The guys there really care about keeping good old games working on modern systems. =D

They also have some great old games for sale, examples: the Duke Nukem franchise; the Knights of the Temple duology; Commandos - Strike Force, and even the not so good Re-Loaded in the Super Digital Deluxe edition.

GOG doesn't tend to care much about games that don't work, for example: Incoming + Incoming Forces (it has been broken for many years). The GOG version has serious performance issues on modern systems and they don't have the DLC from the first Incoming; in ZOOM they have Incoming Trilogy which works beautifully and has the "lost" DLC "Subversion". In addition to ZOOM, you will only find this DLC in the retail version, however, and obviously, without the performance fixes.

I leave this tip. ;)
Best regards!

Dwarf Fortress is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

If that doesn't say much, I don't know what would.

Nah, i would not be so absolute on those statements. For GOG it totally depends on the game. They did care a lot about Warcraft 1+2 for example and it was kinda sad Blizzard gave them "a kick in the bottom"... guess they should get their priorities right and not support the unworthy. However, on other games... just as you said, like Ground Control 1+2, they do not move a finger.... so it will become broken at some point. The only hope are customer-made fixes which are sometimes working and sometimes.... simply a mess. At least Ground Control 1 has been fixed by a easy customer-made mod, but Ground Control 2 seems harder to fix.

I dunno if it works on the Zoom platform... may have to investigate. Naturally Zoom got way lesser of the true classics, so they may show more value and love toward them.

Whats surely even offensive is that GOG was NOT providing me a Ground Control 2 key, yet it seems to be required (according to the main page). If i message them, usually i get no answer. I already asked for another key... until this day all i got is a computer generated answer, and no clue about the key.

I mean, the whole GOG mentality and the path they are going i do find it great. However, unfortunately GOG is just "overloaded" with those tasks. Those tasks are huge and there can never be enough of personnel and support for making it happen.

I dunno why Ground Control 2 is rated so high on GOG, as it got heavy tech issues making it unplayable on modern systems and even lacking a key for new buyers... while many games that are very good get rated bad for relatively hilarious reasons... it is just weird.

Okay, i found out why this game seems to work flawlessly on so many systems and on the other hand may not work at all on some systems. I was testing it on my overaged and almost broken Notebook without any peripherals attached and was setting the compatibility-mode to Win XP SP2, doing so it worked flawless on that crappy machine. This is probably the way most users are "using" this game. My main PC got like 10 peripherals attached (HDDs, SSDs, mouse, KB and whatelse) doing so the game will just freak out and fail to boot, no matter what you do. I think it is checking for connected devices and does not understand "the way to advanced or complicated setting of a modern PC" so it simply either will give error message or it may even simply crash. In order to fix is someone will need to remove or fix those dependencies related to input devices and either remove those "malfunctioning checks" or fix it with a advanced version... the same a modern game is handling it.

At least the myth is busted... but i dunno who can fix it. Most users nowadays are using crappy Notebooks, Handhelds and if they still get the failure they kinda "brute force" it by spamming EXEs or even removing all the cables (with the exception of the power cable and/or the battery... of course, else it will always go boom)... which is surely no proper solution and nothing i could recommend.

Still weird the older Ground Control 1 got no issue by just adding a single DLL... which is as well linked to some failures in device detection... i think they had to fix the "sound device" there. On the second title i think a DLL is needed in order to fix input peripherals...

However... even on a PC without any input device attached, it still may occasionally fail to boot... but usually it may work after some "EXE spamming". Anyway, this entire situation is hilarious, this game does not work the way it should.
In general, with 0 devices attached it may work properly at every 3. "EXE spam" and with every additional device attached the chance may decrease up to the point of almost zero. It almost always will have to be killed in task menu, as the process is basically "stuck" after. If the wrong OS is used (no compatibility) there is just an error message, thats it.

Sure, it may work by using a new engine but i know of no mod doing it.

A Windows Emulator such as Wine/Proton may work properly because the emulator may reduce the "access" the game got to the main system, so the game may not freak out for no reason. In this case a emulator may work better than the native Windows, funny but yeah... Emulators are something serious, no matter what people think about.

Nothing in this post in true

Zoom Platform is a shady store run by grifters. Stop advertising this store in the news threads here!

I don't know if you checked the link I gave you in the other post, but that's exactly what you wrote: connected devices (peripherals) break the game. In fact, in the link this is mentioned as an "error without a solution", considering that it is necessary and tedious to keep disconnecting peripherals to play, and so far there is no way to get around this in less tedious ways.

Do you know DxWrapper?
https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper
Maybe this wrapper can help you. It has two configuration lines (WinVersionLie and WinVersionLieSP) that start the game without having to use compatibility modes via ".exe/shortcut". The GC 2 error is an exception error, from what I saw in your other post, so I think using the "HandleExceptions" line of DxWrapper is a possible solution.

If what I wrote is confusing, read the documentation: https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/wiki/Configuration
It is possible to make tons of adjustments and even convert games in D3D7, 8 to D3D9.
What other “advertisements” did I make? What I did was not an advertisement, it was just a tip for mate Xeshra.

I have had a ZOOM account for years and have never suffered a scam, they have always served me well. You must be an ex-employee upset about some nonsense suffered internally.

LOL. Definitely not.

So tell me, if you want, what blow did you or others suffer there? I never read anything about it. I really want to know, if you want to talk, of course. =)

It is documented in older posts here and in interesting reviews on Steam. I won't repeat it here. That's all I say about this. ;)

Maybe they had their ups and downs at the beginning, like any company/service, but over the years they've been doing well. In fact, the ZOOM Platform is a Steam partner, they are a developer/publisher there, with an official page and everything. LOL... I suppose you are confusing the ZOOM Platform with that videotelephony service of the same name, which has nothing to do with the gaming platform.

LOL. Definitely not.