TiramaSue wrote:

stusue wrote:

I just came across this post by Underwriter over at BFG in a thread in the Haunted Legends: The Stone Guest CE forum that ended up discussing the sale of BFG ...

Underwriter wrote:

If you put everything onto a portable hard drive, take it to a new computer, download the Game Manager onto the new computer, and tell it to "Find Games" it will install them. I learned this by accident, but there is a help article on it. The command is in Options on the Downloads tab.

This would make it really easy to download and keep our games, being able to download them onto any new computers.  

But you have to be able to download the game manager/ap.  If the worry is BFG will no longer support downloadable games, then why would the GM still be available for download and not the games themselves?

External drives can go bad just like hard drives.  There's no way to guarantee you will have your games forever.  Even if BFG continues to exist and allow access to your games for another 50 years, operating systems will change and older games will probably not play on newer computers.  The devs of those games may have gone out of business and nobody will be able to upgrade them to play on newer operating systems.

So you can TRY and safeguard your games and depending on how many you own, spend hours downloading them to an external drive, or you can use that time to play them.  

Tirama, I realise you will still need the GM, unless they do something about that if and when they decide to no longer support casual games.  But I wasn't thinking of that, I wasn't thinking of 50 years, I was rather thinking more along the lines of how easy to download my games to my next computer upgrade, 'tis all, and definitely NOT spending hours downloading them all at once but rather as I bought them, waiting to be played.


 

stusue - At one time, I had my games on an external drive.  When I got a new machine, the game manager did not find them and/or it found them as trial versions and I had to redownload everything.

The game manager was very sluggist with lots of games on it.  

I think I might have played Inbetween Land, does it have a floating island or something like that in it?
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I´m on level 101 on Gizmo and really like it!

Last edited by Anki (November 18, 2014 3:01 pm)

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