{"id":801,"date":"2011-09-01T10:07:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-09-01T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:41:36","slug":"ultima-iv-free-on-gogcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/801\/ultima-iv-free-on-gogcom","title":{"rendered":"Ultima IV Now Free on GOG.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/gamecard\/ultima_4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/ulima4cover_small.jpg\" alt=\"Ultima IV Box Cover\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a commercial game download service, Good Old Games (GOG) has been bringing classic PC titles back to life for a few years now.  Just today, GOG announced that the IBM PC version of <em>Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/gamecard\/ultima_4\" target=\"_blank\">now available as a free download<\/a> over at their site.<\/p>\n<p>Ultima IV has been available on the &#8216;Net as an authorized free download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimaaiera.com\/blog\/concerning-ultima-4-or-in-which-i-have-to-be-the-wet-blanket\/\" target=\"_blank\">off and on over the years<\/a>, but it&#8217;s always nice to have a trustworthy place to get it.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re over at GOG, check out the site&#8217;s other offerings.  I personally love GOG because they distribute original, full games without DRM.  That is very important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a commercial game download service, Good Old Games (GOG) has been bringing classic PC titles back to life for a few years now. Just today, GOG announced that the IBM PC version of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is now available as a free download over at their site. Ultima IV has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,21,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}