For folks who've been on the list a while, this is old news that crops up
about twice a year - feel free to ignore this. If you're new, or missed
earlier deals, I thought I'd pass it on.

The site gog.com sells legal copies of various computer games, including
old games configured to run on modern OS's. This weekend they're having a
sale that includes Betrayal at Krondor and Return to Krondor, You can buy
both for under $5 US combined (and they sell world-wide, so if you're not
in the US you may still be able to purchase). They're guaranteed to run on
Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 (toying with picking them up and trying them
under Windows 8, though I own original signed CD-ROMs of each).

The games came first - Krondor: The Betrayal is based on the game,
expanding on what happened, and other books in the Krondor series fill in
around the story.

BaK is often considered one of the best games of it's kind of all time,
even by people with no other interest in Ray's books. Return to Krondor is
entirely different, not quite as good in the gameplay department, but still
a lot of fun.

Betrayal at Krondor is bundled with Betrayal at Antara, built on the same
engine but unrelated to Midkemia - and apparently broken, with a bug that
causes it to crash. Betrayal at Krondor is worth the price by itself,
though, so I'd just skip Antara entirely.

I get nothing from the sale of these games - Ray may still get a few
pennies, I don't know (and I'm not asking).

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