I found the best info on that demo here, don't know if you already found that page (links are basically dead):
http://www.angelfire.com/nt/revenant/files.html

"Videos

Intro AVI - Eidos (20MB) - Telefragged (zipped 18MB)

Non-Interactive Demo - Eidos (zipped 9.5MB) - Telefragged (zipped 9.5MB)

Updated Non-Interactive Demo - This version is about 30 seconds longer than the other one listed above, and it has new music. Almost all of the scenes in it are the same as the previous one, but they are longer and more detailed. IMO, worth the download.
Cinematix (zipped 18.6MB) - Telefragged (zipped 18.6MB)"

Thanks for digging this up. So it appears this is a trailer of sorts and there's an even longer version of it.

I can only find one instance of it from the Internet Archive, however the download pauses after the 1.0MB mark 🙁.

A brief clip of it on cnet's game show on tv of some sort I forgot of but aired on TBS in 1999 showed Revenant running

on what was obviously a Matrox G100A

BTW I do have a July 1999-dated demo grabbed from the cnet-owned Download.com before they switched it to their horrible download client system. (FYI - i've only grabbed every demo dated before January 2000, roughly 12GBs worth. looking back I should've grabbed more D:)

The following is the Readme file for the Public Demo version of "Revenant". […]
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The following is the Readme file for the Public Demo version of "Revenant".

This demo includes a fully playable mini-version of the game. The demo consists of a few houses made from
a small portion of the town, the forests, and a full level from the caves area.

...

Disclaimer:
This demo is based on BETA code, and therefore may have some bugs. There may be some compatibility issues
with certain video cards, and there may be some system incompatibilities that prevent you from playing the
game. If this is the case, please email your System Specs to Revenant@eidos.com and we will do our best to
see that the final version runs on your machine.

I'll try to upload it somewhere today. 😀

Also it's worth mentioning the same demo can be found on the November 1999 CGROM

Interesting stuff. I'd definitely like to see that earlier demo, maybe it is different from the one I can find.

My first contact with the game was circa 2000 and I definitely remember playing a demo of it with a cave level at some point. The demo didn't allow you to save and my parents forced me to go to some friends. I remember leaving the PC on and coming back only to find out that the game had freezed, rendering any progress I had made useless 😢 .
It certainly doesn't feel 15 years go 😐 .

I'll see if I can find the clip you speak of, why do you say it was obviously running on a G100A though? Completely broken blending? 🤣

not doing better on this myself, but you should have listed the filenames on the old broken links:
revdemo.zip - 9.27 MB (9.5 MB)
movie.zip - 18.6 MB
in case someone comes across them later. Sadly ftp.eidosinteractive.com is not among those FTP servers ArchiveTeam/the Internet Archive has backed up: https://archive.org/details/ftpsites

RevenantDemo.exe should be the file to look for. It's a PackageForTheWeb installer.

F2bnp wrote:

I'll see if I can find the clip you speak of, why do you say it was obviously running on a G100A though? Completely broken blending? 🤣

I'm certain it's a G100A because they had broken blending when they previewed Quake3 at one point in a different clip on a different show (Gamespot TV), and G100A could be made to work with it with the help of GL->Direct3D ICDs. I'm fairly certain it was not PCX2 or Virge.

Doubt you'll find the revenant clip i'm referring to, I was only going by memory. I highly doubt anyone recorded those TBS Cnet shows 🤣

also OT: Anyone have The Rage demos of the 0.5x versions from 2000-2001? All I can find are the very first demo in 2000 and all versions starting from their gold version 1.0

I remember playing through this game. It was lots of fun, but I know not everyone likes continual hack n slash. I recommend playing through it.

It might also pay to check the EIDOS demo disks included with the boxed versions of various EIDOS games. Disks 6-8 have the 41 MB Revenant demo (RevenantDemo.exe). Earlier disks may have other Revenant files, so perhaps somebody else can check those.

http://download.cnet.com/Revenant-demo/3000-2 … 4-10031392.html
Is this the demo you were looking for? 😀

DOWNLOAD.COM IS EVIL

Arctic wrote:

http://download.cnet.com/Revenant-demo/3000-2 … 4-10031392.html
Is this the demo you were looking for? 😀

This is probably the final released demo, which I already have, but I'll have a look at it in the coming days. Thanks 😀.

yeah, download.com literally calls it 'newrevenantdemo.exe'

I think eBay has it

http://www.ebay.com/itm/REVENANT-EIDOS-PC-DEM … -/361204299988?

Stretch wrote:

I think eBay has it

http://www.ebay.com/itm/REVENANT-EIDOS-PC-DEM … -/361204299988?

Wow the original Demo Disc! 😀

Nice, I'll probably pick this up 😀.

Okay, I did snatch it. Even if it turns out to be an identical demo, it will still be awesome to have 😀. I expect it to take a while before it arrives, but it is in safe hands and I'll share it if I'm allowed 😀.

Another bump and a bit unrelated.

I really dig the cover artwork for the game and I'd love to get a high res scan of it. I searched through the credits of the game and found Den Beauvais credited as the concept and cover artist, so I gave it a go and contacted him about it. Here's the reply:

"Hi Nick,

Sorry, I don't have any scans, but I do have some original Revenant art left for sale.
http://denbeauvais.com/Art_for_Sale_Games.html

Let me know if that interests you. Cheers,

Den

http://www.denbeauvais.com

Alternate emails : denbeauvais@gmail.com, den@denbeauvais.com"

Okay so far, but this is where it gets weird. The e-mail didn't end there:

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I have two possible explanations for this. Either he sends this with every e-mail on purpose or he has some New World Order spam bot on his mail server and hasn't realized it. Either way I laughed my ass off 🤣 .

It seems the disc contains a lot more than I ever hoped. It appears to contain the full game at an alpha state, certainly much more than a demo. I will keep you guys posted as I play through it. Fortunately, there a lot of saved games from various spots in the game.

As it is right now, I can already find different map layouts, different animations, different sound effects, different menu UI and random bugs such as sound cutting off. I am super excited to own this !

WOW!!!! Any source code? (i doubt it) Does it have the alpha and marketing material?