First post, by MrFlibble
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- Oldbie
Previously I posted several queries here trying to find demo/shareware releases of some games that are pretty tough to track down for various reasons. Since some of them are still not found, and a few more appeared on the wanted list, it occurred to me to make a single thread for a centralised effort to find those.
Below I'll give brief descriptions for each such file, with links to any available information.
Tyrian 2000
Type: Demo (non-English)
File names and sizes (if available):
French TYRIAN2000F.exe 3732 KB
German TYRIAN2000G.exe 3730 KB
Spanish TYRIAN2000S.exe 3743 KB
Additional info: VOGONS thread
Lord of Destruction
Type: Shareware
Developer: Gabe Macchia
Publisher: Rebelsoft
File names and sizes (if available): LD1.ZIP or LOD11.ZIP
The file list for the registered version is:
CHAR LD1 14
CONFIG LD1 1
IMAGE LD1 5,410
LD1 DOC 19,292
LD1 EXE 318,438
LODMAPS LD1 13,021
LODPICTS LD1 967,387
NAME LD1 5
SETUP EXE 18,833
SOUND01 LD1 5,437
SOUND02 LD1 1,025
SOUND03 LD1 40,332
SOUND04 LD1 22,778
SOUND05 LD1 23,788
SOUND06 LD1 2,128
SOUND07 LD1 4,732
SOUND08 LD1 13,210
SOUND09 LD1 8,184
SOUND10 LD1 28,658
SOUND11 LD1 1,420
SOUND12 LD1 4,052
SOUND13 LD1 3,521
WORLDMAP LD1 16,321
Additional info: VOGONS thread
Caesar II
Type: Demo (Windows)
File names and sizes (if available):
CSR2DEMO.EXE 13671 K
Additional info: mentioned here
Revolt of Don's Knights
Type: Demo (English)
File names and sizes (if available): demorodk.exe
Additional info: mentioned here
Fox Ranger
Type: Demo
Demo file list:
FOXDEMO.EXE
VSPRITE.PAT
SC55.DAT
STAGE.DAT
FOX.DAT
Additional info: mentioned here
Gameplay video shown here
Note: in the 90s, the full commercial version of this South Korean game circulated as "freeware" on Western BBS's and sites, which may lead to some confusion. The demo version is clearly marked as a demo.
Gunmetal
Type: Demo (v0.99)
File names and sizes (if available):
GUNMDEMO.ZIP 22.720.259 bytes
GUNMUSIC.ZIP
Additional info: here
Note: The demo itself is available, it's just that the original ZIP files as provided by Mad Genius Software aren't.