GOG is doing their Winter sale, and Fallout 1,2 and Tactics are free for the next 27 hours. http://www.gog.com/ They've got other games on sale too, but you can't beat free.
Apparently they took their highest load spike so far, quadrupled it, bought servers accordingly - and it still wasn't enough... The situation seems to have improved somewhat since yesterday, but I'm still not seeing three games that I bought (and was billed for) in my account. I expect they'll probably clear that up in a couple of days, but don't expect the site to work as smoothly as usual during this sale.
I managed to get a hold of my copies but it took a while. Good marketing move on their part, GOG is and always has been a great service for old games. Their commitment to Mac ports is commendable too.
Yeah, I got the email from them and got 2 and Tactics (I'd gotten the first when I signed up). I really like GOG as well, I'll usually plunk down for some classics now and then.
Not to belittle their efforts, but for the older titles that are running in DOSbox, a Mac "port" isn't all that much extra work - basically you just generate another installer, just this time with the Mac version of DOSbox included instead of the Windows one. I just wish that while they're at it they'd also release Linux packages... Either way, I really, really love their service, and I've long since entered the phase where package deals make little sense to me since I usually own half of the titles. But that leads me right to another thing to love about them: If you already own parts of a package, you don't have to pay for those games again. Instead, the package price is getting knocked down, just for you! Take that, Steam!
