To keep things interesting, here's the original installer for the Slovak demo of Revolt of Don's Knights: VZBURA.EXE

It's available from Score CD-ROM Issue No. 42:
https://archive.org/details/scorecd42

The installer is a DOS RAR SFX archive, which is probably the same with the English demo.

How about the Scorched Planet retailer demo?
Type: Demo (non-interactive)
File names and sizes (if available): SPDEALER.EXE (11M)
Originally available from: ftp://ftp.csl.com/pub/sp_demo/
Mentioned here.

Does anyone have the floppy disk version of Jack in the Dark (1993). (I believe the archive is JACKDARK.ZIP.) I have the copy that came on CD and am interested to see if there are any differences with the floppy version.

ETA: Thanks to the user who sent me this. This is the U.S. version and differs in minor details from the European version on my CD. (I would still like to obtain a copy of the original European version ZIP for archival purposes.)

I am looking for the additional "DLC" / downloadable Levels for the german "comedic" game "TV Total - Pulleralarm". Maybe a german speaking user here has it?

Arctic wrote on 2020-06-09, 20:03:

I am looking for the additional "DLC" / downloadable Levels for the german "comedic" game "TV Total - Pulleralarm".

Where were they available from? I just briefly checked the dev website (address taken from MobyGames) via the Wayback Machine but the snapshots are not in a very good condition, and there were no downloads. The publisher, CDV, is better preserved but again, no extras like this seem to be available from them.

Errius wrote on 2020-06-09, 18:25:

Does anyone have the floppy disk version of Jack in the Dark (1993). (I believe the archive is JACKDARK.ZIP.)

The ZIP came on a floppy? Or it was downloadable from somewhere? I had the impression this game was not really freely distributable, but I may be wrong.

Anyway, Hallfiry's catalogue has only one instance of the game as it seems:

1Name. ext	Size (Bytes)	Last modified
2..		
3Adlibm.com	4,122	1993-09-03 00:35:08
4Anim16.pak	28,906	1993-09-17 16:30:46
5Camera16.pak	250,225	1993-08-27 21:08:06
6Cleardrv.exe	8,426	1990-07-18 22:32:22
7Defines.itd	30	1993-09-21 19:55:24
8Deutsch.pak	3,457	1993-09-16 18:36:58
9Drv_bz.com	761	1993-09-03 00:35:16
10Drv_sb.com	1,571	1993-09-03 00:35:10
11Drv_sbd.com	932	1993-09-03 00:35:12
12Drv_smp.com	708	1993-09-03 00:35:20
13Drv_ss.com	913	1993-09-03 00:35:14
14Drv_vm.com	1,448	1993-09-03 00:35:18
15English.pak	3,245	1993-09-16 18:36:54
16Espagnol.pak	3,339	1993-09-16 18:37:00
17Etage16.pak	2,736	1993-09-17 16:30:30
18Francais.pak	3,373	1993-09-16 18:36:56
19Indark2.exe	66,552	1993-09-21 17:19:36
20Install.opt	6,719	1994-04-05 18:03:26
21Italiano.pak	3,395	1993-09-16 18:37:00
22Itd_ress.pak	272,741	1993-09-02 22:31:20
23Jack.bat	42	1993-09-09 20:28:08
24Jack.ico	766	1993-09-23 19:51:56
25Jack.pif	573	1994-02-26 21:13:48
26Listanim.pak	62,121	1993-09-20 13:17:32
27Listbody.pak	57,221	1993-09-20 13:17:20
28Listhyb.pak	3,039	1993-09-21 19:55:38
29Listlife.pak	9,152	1993-09-21 19:55:44
30Listmat.pak	360	1993-09-21 19:55:52
31Listmus.pak	2,862	1993-09-13 14:00:54
32Listsamp.pak	188,375	1993-09-13 14:00:52
33Listtrak.pak	1,654	1993-09-21 19:55:50
34Mask16.pak	12,013	1993-09-17 16:30:40
35Objets.itd	1,784	1993-09-21 19:55:24
36Pere.pak	296,437	1993-09-09 20:25:04
37Priority.itd	26	1993-09-21 19:55:24
38Vars.itd	104	1993-09-21 19:55:24

It was available from the Secret Service (Alone in the Dark) CD and I think it's likely the same as the CD version that you have.

Has anyone heard of Surf and Destroy? Background in these tweets:

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/1270141488123523073

https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/1270145612747603970

'Jack in the Dark' was released at Christmas 1993 as a free game on floppy disk. (Presumably as magazine coverdisk). The zipped archive was meanwhile made available on the Infogrames BBS.

Errius wrote on 2020-06-11, 14:48:

'Jack in the Dark' was released at Christmas 1993 as a free game on floppy disk. (Presumably as magazine coverdisk). The zipped archive was meanwhile made available on the Infogrames BBS.

I did not know that, thanks!

It's a bit odd that this release was not listed on the various "free games on the Internet" lists like Lord Soth's and the like.

In fact, a while ago I complied a selection of websites available via the Wayback Machine which list such then-available downloads:

Here's what I believe to be the original ZIP of the BLAM! Machinehead demo that was available from the GamesDomain FTP: blamdemo.zip.

The Wayback Machine has preserved a pretty good mirror of said FTP, but the demo of BLAM! is not among the files that were archived. I found the demo using Hallfiry's catalogue on a coverdisk of a French gaming magazine called Joystick (issue No. 79). The same CD has a ZIP of the SkyNET demo which is confirmed to be the unaltered file from Bethesda's FTP, and some further corroboration comes from a third-party website which repacked the BLAM! demo contents into a RAR file but preserved the date stamps on the folders, which are an exact match of the folder date stamps in blamdemo.zip from that Joystick CD.

Thanks to Hallfiry's catalogue I found a very early demo of Age of Rifles: WCS3.zip. Unfortunately it's both incomplete and broken.

This version is found on the Generation 4 Issue No. 82 coverdisk. The date stamp on the binary executable, RIFLES.EXE (601 375 bytes), is from 19 Jul 1995, whereas the most recent demo of the game known before is from 18 Nov 1995.

The demo apparently has two scenarios but is missing almost all graphics files and the title screen file (TITLE.LBM) is corrupted. I tried filling the gap with the graphics files from the 18 Nov version, and I can get to the main menu but the mouse cursor never shows up so I cannot select any of the options, and hence play the game.

Lone Eagle - Colombian Encounter [FOUND]
Type: Shareware
Version: 2.1
File name: lone_s21.exe
File size: 2 655 050 bytes
Reference: http://www.gamersinn.com/library/adventure/?14

UPD: Found thanks to DiscMaster:
https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/11264 … es/lone_s21.exe

2FAST4YOU a.k.a. BiFi Race [FOUND]
Type: Full version (?)
Version: Disk version
File name: bifidisk.zip
File size: 1.4 MiB
Status: original file found
Reference: http://www.orangegames.com/games.htm

NOTES: 2FAST4YOU was a promotional advergame for BiFi snacks released in Germany in 1995. However it was developed by a Dutch team called Orange Games (apparently also involved in the development of Jazz Jackrabbit), which had a download link on their site (see above). The game was actually sold in Germany (for a much lower price than commercial games but still), and I only found a demo on a shareware CD. Yes, the full version is available from a number of sources but I'd like to find the original ZIP from the dev website.

UPD: The original floppy installer from the CD version was found and provided by K1n9_Duk3, as well as confirmation that the full floppy version is eligible for free distribution. It is now available here:
https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/2fast4you/

Drone [FOUND]
Type: Shareware
Version: 1.01
File name: drone_sw.zip
File size: 8 MiB
Status: original file found
Reference: http://www.pixelsplash.com/games/drone1/drone_sw.htm

I only found a repacked RAR version on this CD Action coverdisk:
http://cd.textfiles.com/cdaction/cdaction20a/DRONE/

UPD: I've uploaded what we believe to be the original zip file here:
https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/drone/

Thanks to cyclone3d for finding the file!

MrFlibble wrote on 2020-11-09, 21:03:

Drone Type: Shareware Version: 1.01 File name: drone_sw.zip File size: 8 MiB Reference: http://www.pixelsplash.com/games/drone1/ […]
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Drone
Type: Shareware
Version: 1.01
File name: drone_sw.zip
File size: 8 MiB
Reference: http://www.pixelsplash.com/games/drone1/drone_sw.htm

I only found a repacked RAR version on this CD Action coverdisk:
http://cd.textfiles.com/cdaction/cdaction20a/DRONE/

http://web.archive.org/web/20040625014239/htt … e1/drone_sw.exe

That is the Windows version though. the DOS .zip was not saved.

Edit:
Found a copy of the DOS demo on archive.org:
(edit by Dominus: link to this collection removed as it is offering a lot of warez there)

File name is not the same, but I am guessing that they may have just renamed the original zip when that collection was made.

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-11-09, 21:33:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040625014239/htt … e1/drone_sw.exe

That is the Windows version though. the DOS .zip was not saved.

Yup, I checked the links on that page of course 😀 The same Windows version is actually also available from FilePlanet:
https://www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-70679/Drone-v1-01

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-11-09, 21:33:

Found a copy of the DOS demo on archive.org:
(edit by Dominus: Warez collection link)

File name is not the same, but I am guessing that they may have just renamed the original zip when that collection was made.

Thanks a lot! The file contents are the same as in the RAR repack I linked to above. PKZIP -vt says the archive was created by PKZIP 2.0 for DOS which is yet another strong argument for the file's authenticity.

Interpose large demo. I have a full game, and got a hold of cristmas special and tiny demo, but there is a large demo, with more levels and full cutscenes. Have not find it in the wild.

(Edit by Dominus: link to warez collection removed)

Originals are here. No large demo, but I know it existed.

I found the large demo/shareware of Interpose a while ago, I believe on a magazine coverdisk, and uploaded it here:
https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/interpose/

It's the original Webfoot installer, zipped up. I think Swizzle also added it to his collection too:
https://archive.org/details/interpos

Please do not link to warez!

Dominus wrote on 2020-11-10, 14:08:

Please do not link to warez!

It is the same link that was few posts back, i just changed the release year from 1997 to 1996. Total Dos collection.