All hail swaaye! (Prostrating) 😁

NICE!

Twas fun to put up. I wonder if the free download sites will be happy about it. 😀

Thump up from me too, I wish I had not thrown out all my old shareware and PC player CDs out now.

I loved these inclusions back then. They were stuff worth having for a dialup user, and some of them archived stuff the internet lost too. The best years of these discs for me were 96 and 97.
Notable things:
-6-95 CD-Rom Today has the very rare RSD Game-Maker 3.0, with a "distribute to ten friends for free" end-user license.
-96 PC Gamer CD has the rare zip (rare as in the original, not repacked) version of Quake v0.91 shareware, and its 0.92 patch (included at least FOUR times on the disc, as well as extracted 3 times!) Those two are provided here:
QUAKE091.ZIP
QUAKE092P.ZIP
-96 PC Gamer CD also has the rare Ultra Doom 2X Doom2 mod. It's not allowed on idgames/ since it contains a modified DOOM2.EXE instead of the dehacked patch itself. I have provided it here for the curious. Google has no hits for Ultrad2x.zip (until now!
-12-94 CD-Rom Today has the awful Felix the Cat Toon Maker 'demo'. I thought it was so bad not even a kid would enjoy this.

Weird there' sno one starting an archive about them. Computer Games Strategy (iirc?) often packed more than just demos but a lot of interesting freeware filler.

I'm noticing a certain theme among most of these.

Thanks for the details leileilol I wasn't aware of the rarity of some of the files on these CDs.

I have some more PC Gamer disks that I will post up. I have a few in between #1 and 2.8. I wish I had more of these CDs but that will be just about everything except for some that CGWs that are too recent (earliest is 98, I believe). I actually have a CGW special edition DVD with full Deus Ex GotY on it. Can't post that obviously! 😀

Added PCGamer CDs 7, 8, and 11.

Also added a magazine pre-release demo of TIE Fighter that came on 2 floppies. I can't remember where I got this exactly, but I think it was with a magazine. It has a Dodge Neon interactive ad and a TIE Fighter demo that has many aspects that were changed before the final game release.

ive got about 1500 pc magazine coverdisks
had the mags as well untill the weight of them broke my wardrobe

could you please upload some of them if you can?something from years 96\97\98 if possible..thanks:)

i doubt it, it would take 5 hours per cd
i'll sort out some pics tommorow if you need a specific demo/ app/file i will upload

i just let my uploads run two at a time overnight or while i'm at work 😀 I have only 512kbit up.

Malik wrote:

All hail swaaye! (Prostrating) 😁

Seconded. Downloading now. However, the extension is .7z. Maybe I'm supposed to rename it to .ISO or something?

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Seconded. Downloading now. However, the extension is .7z. Maybe I'm supposed to rename it to .ISO or something?

.7z is the extension for the open source powerful file compressor/decompressor/archiver : 7-Zip.
You need to decompress/expand using the 7-zip utility : http://www.7-zip.org/

Malik wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Seconded. Downloading now. However, the extension is .7z. Maybe I'm supposed to rename it to .ISO or something?

.7z is the extension for the open source powerful file compressor/decompressor/archiver : 7-Zip.
You need to decompress/expand using the 7-zip utility : http://www.7-zip.org/

....and I thought I already knew every open source apps. out there. Duh!

Thanks, by the way. 😀

winrar does 7z too

WinRAR is the stuff. It's one of a handful of shareware apps that I have paid for, simply because I have used it so much for so long.

I took some pics of some of my cover discs :

Yay, there's even the Prisoner of Ice demo on one of those, I have been looking for that for ages. Thanks!

Davros, when are u gonna start uploading everything that's 1997 and older? 😀