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• The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod

  As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you can download the Windows offline installer from GOG, then use innoextract to extract the desired files: https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ A Mac GUI version of innoextract can be found here: https://macsourceports.com/utilities Aside from Doom engine games, this also works for Build engine (Duke Nukem 3D), idTech games, and countless others. Very useful tool for being able... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod

  GOG's installers are made with InnoSetup, you can use a tool like InnoExtract to get the files out of them (source at https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ or in MacPorts/Homebrew). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• How to use OpenMW with a Macbook Pro and GOG copy?

  Use innoextract to unpack it; you can easily install innoextract from Homebrew. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Unbrick Lenovo Yoga 730-13IKB due to BIOS downgrade/upgrade

  Download innoextract, https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ (Use for extracting the lenovo BIOS setup file). Source: about 2 years ago

• Part 2 of the adventure: put old games on an old machine with W98

  Mostly, depends. Some games require some registry entries and might error without them. I recommend not launching the installer at all and instead extracting the files from inside with innoextract. Source: almost 3 years ago

• The Lutris team has received a Steam Deck so it can develop for the platform

  You don't need to run the installers through wine. You can just use innoextract. Source: about 3 years ago

• Anyone able to help troubleshoot issues running KQ games in dos (or scummvm)

  If you don't have Windows, you can apparently use innoextract to get the contents out, and you should be able to run that more portably. Source: about 3 years ago

• Is this ""threat"" okay to bypass?

  Don't run the setup file. Instead, use InnoExtract to extract the files by dropping the setup file over innoextract.exe. Source: over 3 years ago

• So I bought this game called quake the offering and it has an installer, I need an admin's password for the installer, but he isn't there right now. I wanna play the game, but I don't know the password.

  Download innoextract. Extract the zip file to the same folder as the game installer. Source: over 3 years ago

• How to open an .exe file on Mac so it can work with openRCT?

  If you have access to a Windows PC, this is probably the easiest way, but other options include using Wine to run the installer, or using InnoExtract to extract the needed files from the executable. Source: over 3 years ago

• Do Offline Installers expire?

  GOG offline installers do not expire. Also, if you need to extract individual files from them, make sure you use Inno Extract, which allows you to do that. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Running GOG installers on Linux

  Wine can run the installers. Alternately, you can just extract them with innoextract (useful in the cases where they're just DOS games packaged with a copy of Dosbox, or for other games that are similarly just packaged as a zipped-up directory). Source: about 4 years ago

• Days Gone coming to Steam.... But what about GOG? We got HZD, so we should, right?

  To be more specific, when you install a game through steam which has EAC, as soon as you launch the game (after it finished to install), the EAC setup will start, asking you to install it in order to play the game "requiring" it; on the contrary, GOG version silently install it without asking the user's permission, be it through galaxy install or offline installer. This is a VERY BIG PROBLEM, as EAC is a piece of... Source: about 4 years ago

• Making DVD backups

  1) Download and extract https://constexpr.org/innoextract/#download. Source: about 4 years ago

• Need Help getting Caesar/Augustus to work on MacBook

  As an additional note: GOG installers, being Inno Setup packages, can be unpacked without installing them using Innoextract. It's available for many OSs, including macOS. Source: about 4 years ago