Hi there,
While Arena and Daggerfall are both free now, battlespire and redguard aren't, and aren't to be found anywhere. I doubt Bethesda is making any money with them, why not have them put on gog.com? They'd fit the games on that site and I'm sure a lot of people would buy them just because they're TES games, and hard to find ones.

Anyone else agree?

As difficult it is to get Arena and Daggerfall to run properly on modern systems, Battlespire and Redguard are even worse. And since GoG requires that any games sold on the site be XP and Vista compatible, the amount of work to get them into that shape would probably negate any money they got from selling it.

If I'm not mistaken, GOG uses DOSBox. I know Steam uses it, and they don't even have a decent implementation....

Can DOSBox run Redguard now? It's been years since I installed it, but I remember having to fiddle around a lot with DgVoodoo and a bunch of other programs to get it to run, and even then there were still some issues (extremely slow performance in some areas, music sometimes cutting out, etc)

I know they use DOSbox for games like Duke Nukem, stonekeep etc. Gog does the actual tweaking, although who knows if it's worth their time. It's from a popular series so it would get a fair amount of sales... at least from people interested in these 2 relatively unknown elder scrolls games.

Also, I must be lucky for some reason. I've gotten Arena and Daggerfall both to work fine on vista and the only issues I had were my own mistakes I fixed quickly. *shrug*

I have both Arena and Daggerfall working on Windows 7 with Dosbox. And if you the Direct3D variant of Dosbox...you can even use pixel shaders. They have many interesting effects from simply different ways of upscaling the graphics to special effects like Matrix and Sketch. (Daggerfall looks awesome w/ Cartoon.fx)

That being said, I'd buy a tweaked version of them if it added something (imaging WASD w/ Arena).

I wonder if the Dosbox devs get paid everytime GOG or Steam sells a game that comes packaged with the app.

No. DOSbox is open source. The license they use is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL. In effect, anybody can do anything they want with it. What GOG cannot do is take away freedoms given to users in the license. Also, if they modify or include it in another program they must distribute their new code. DOSbox really is an awesome project.

The DOSbox site does seem to endorse GOG. I don't know if they put those links there themselves or if GOG paid for them. I don't suppose it matters much. It may be possible the GOG people communicate with the DOSbox team regularly about issues. Doesn't matter much. It's all just cool.

Instructions on running Redguard

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/General%3a%50laying_DOS_Installments_under_DOSBox

Having said that, i would agree that the costs of updating it would not be worth selling it