welcome to the forums,if some people seems sad that's becuase the Fallout games have been taken of the catalogue but at least we have System Shock 2

BTW,don't worry about posting your wishlist on the gifting thread,sure there's a dumbass that keeps downrepping people there(me,Lugum,Licurg and others are his favourite target). but you're on your right to post here,just keep conversations civil,we want to keep our community nice.

....and Keane. :D

HI. My name is Skampy, and I'm 5 yrs clean of DRM. Sometimes I waver, I see those Steam discounts. I think just one...one won't hurt.

there's nothing wrong on using Steam.they have a nice service there.
as for DRM,at least it's not GFWL or Origin or SecuROM(why did they invented this piece of garbage?)*shudder*

Duke Nukem 3D, Descent 1 & 2 and Arx Fatalis come to my mind. just because a game is open source that doesn't mean it's actually free. just the game's programming code is free, while all the actual content (graphics, sound, levels) are still commercial. This has allowed the aforementioned games to receive great modern updates that improve the playability and make the games run natively on modern systems instead of being emulated through DOSBox:
eDuke32
DXX-Rebirth
Arx Libertatis
(there is more games, but those are the ones that come to my mind)

I'm pretty sure OP confused "free" with "open source", though, and referred to the freebies that every GOGer gets. Also, Conquest and Uplink come with their source codes, I think.

Who knows, maybe GOG will change that!

I've never had a problem with SecuROM, however I think I only have a couple of games that has SecuROM, but GFWL is awful, and despite only having had to deal with it once (Batman: Arkham City) that was one time too many. I actively avoid anything Origin, even if it means missing out on games I really would like to play, such as Alice: Madness Returns. Call me a weirdo, but I was there when Origin was first released, with it's original awful awful AWFUL Terms of Service/Privacy Policy agreement and due to that I will never buy any game that requires Origin.

Anyway, thread creator thanks for the positive post! GOG is awesome! Not just because of the lack of DRM, but also because of those awesome extras that are included more often than not.

Hi there - been a while since I visited - I forget which ones are open source - but it was one or more of the free ones you get ... for example Ultima IV is open source - you can grab it at sourceforge or you can just click on it in your account "game shelf"... at least I have it... I hope you do!

--Jason
Yes this is true in some cases - I've seen this too - specifically the Decent ones but I can see how/why there are projects like this.

Sometimes companies just open source it all - kinda a polite abandon thing... this is better - but both are cool for reasons stated above: Tech Updates :)
--Jason
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Ok - This entry is odd cuz I'm answering two folks specific - (but I do like how this forum works - individual replies and consolidated? Nice touch.) - and now to all of you: Thank you for the warm welcome - and I'm happy there is a cool community here - perhaps I'll start hanging out here more often - you certainly laid out the red carpet!

Thank You!
--Jason

Well, not really. The source code for Ultima IV has been lost, what you see on SourceForge is the code for xu4. That's a fan-made reverse-engineered engine that's compatible with Ultima IV, but it has nothing from the original Ultima IV code in it, it was written from scratch by fans. Neither EA nor Origin had anything to do with xu4's development.

Similar projects are Nuvie (Ultima VI), Exult (Ultima VII) or OpenMW (Morrowind).
http://nuvie.sourceforge.net
http://exult.sourceforge.net
https://openmw.org/en/
In all these cases the games themselves are still closed-source, these ports are written without the original code for reference.

Consecutive posts (from the same user, of course) less than 10 minutes apart are merged. Which is annoying in some cases when separate posts are wanted, and good in others.

Shoutout to the freebies! Let's see more appear in the coming months. ;)

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_mostvoted_freeware_games_on_the_wishlist

Thanks for the info - I didn't know that. Love the recreation guys - they're nuts - well... I just think its easier to make one from scratch (less the media) than to try to mimic - like a rubik's cube! lol - Hat's off to them dedicated gamer/coder people!