Does anyone happen to have some old demo discs floating around from the mid 90's? I am trying to remember some of the strange games and videos that were on them and I cannot find any that are easily accessible. It's worth a shot since it seems most people here hold on to things like I do. I still have all the boxes to every game I have ever bought, my mom was a smart lady.
I might have some of these at my parents' house, if they haven't all been thrown away..although I've got more PC Format discs than PC Gamer ones. The shareware games section always had the weirdest stuff.
PC Gamer specifically? I've got discs 2.2 (March 95) to 2.6 (July 96), 2.13 (Feb 97) and 2.14 (March 97), 3.5 (Aug 97), 3.8 (Nov 97), 3.10 (Jan 98), and 4.6 (Dec 98). I've also got a few other discs from other magazines, like Ultra.
I'm also interested in this. Does anyone have the PC Gamer Volume 4 Number 1, January 1997 disc? It has the 'Daggerfall Betony Demo' on it which I'm trying to get with it's original timestamps.
I actually think any of those older demo discs would be neat to play around with. I am actually heading to my parents soon and think I might be able to dig through and find a few. I wonder if there would be any interest in trying to back these old discs up and make an archive.
I'm looking for ones that might have; The Men in Black, Die By the Sword, Scorched Earth, Total Annihilation. Actually any discs from 95-97 and specifically January 1998, there were some games on there that I think were never released and a few early builds. I just remember those games being on a few of them. That and the crazy intro videos and Coconut Monkey were a bit on the bizarre side. Edit:I just checked an old cd case and found one from July 1999 that has ;Worms Armageddon, Starsiege, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 etc.
I'll do some directory dumps and post the lists. If anyone wants something, I'll make an arc. If someone else wants to start a repo of the discs, I'd dump the whole CDs I have, but I don't personally have a site for storing discs, nor accounts on places where I could store an entire disc image.
List of demos for each PC Gamer disc I have: 2.2 (March 1996) ---------------- Heroes of Might and Magic Hexen Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure EarthSiege 2 HardBall 5 Lion Star Rangers Full Tilt Pinball Vigilance on Talos V Advanced Civilization Space Bucks The Incredible Machine 3.0 Shockwave Assault Locus Black Knight: Marine Strike Fighter A-10 II: Silent Thunder Cyberia 2 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 2.3 (April 1996) ---------------- Warcraft II Daggerfall Rayman You Don't Know Jack Earthworm Jim Orion Burger Bad Mojo Gearheads Return Fire Renegade 2: Return to Jacob's Star Powerslave SimIsle Connections Battle Arena Toshinden Absolute Zero AH3 Thunderstrike Shivers 2.4 (May 1996) -------------- Duke Nukem 3D Descent II Terra Nova Allied General Chaos Overlords Rise of the Robots 2 Conquest of the New World Whiplash TNN: Outdoor Bass Tournament '96 Battleground Gettysburg Virtual Karts Wooden Ships & Iron Men Battle Isle 2220 Azrael's Tear VR Soccer '96 Savage Warbirds 2.5 (June 1996) --------------- Afterlife Knight's Chase Rebel Assault II Virtual Snooker Strife Road Warrior Assault Rigs Seek & Destroy Big Red Racing Stars! Decathlon Rebel Runner Storm The Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires Warbirds 2.6 (July 1996) --------------- The Pandora Directive Zork Nemesis Normality Philip Marlowe Private Eye Super Stardust '96 Total Pinball 3D MicroMachines 2 Third Reich Total Mayhem Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations Havoc 2.13 (February 1997) -------------------- Tomb Raider SkyNET MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries Microsoft Soccer Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! Alien Rampage Powerslave Bug! Battleground Antietam Harpoon Classic Pinball Builder Power F1 A Fork in the Tale ZPC Jet Fighter III Muzzle Velocity Legends of Kesmai Rocket Jockey 2.14 (March 1997) ----------------- Heroes of Might & Magic II Privateer 2: The Darkening Magic: The Gathering A-10 Cuba Destruction Derby 2 Soultrap CyberGladiators Battleground: Antietam Sega Rally Championship Fallen Haven Scorcher Death Rally Amulets & Armor Star Command Revolution Stargunner 3.8 (Nov 1997) -------------- Hexen II Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain Claw Legends of Football '98 Virtua Fighter 2 The Last Express Youngblood G-Police Dungeon Keeper Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '98 WarBirds 2.0 War Wind II: Human Onslaught Dark Rift Commanche 3 3.10 (Jan 1998) --------------- Tomb Raider II Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far Sub Culture Age of Empires Die by the Sword NetStorm Virtual Pool 2 You Don't Know Jack TV netWAR iF-16 4.6 (Dec 1998) - Disc 1 ----------------------- Shogo: Mobile Armor Division Need for Speed III Caesar III Powerslide Carmageddon II Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Spearhead Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix World Champions iF/A-18E: Carrier Strike Fighter Recoil Swarms Speed Busters MindSpring 4.6 (Dec 1998) - Disc 2 ----------------------- Israeli Air Force WWII Fighters Dethkarz Vigilance 3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball Oddworld: Abe's Exodus Red Baron 2 Lode Runner 2 Wild Ride Castrol Honda Superbike World Champions Star Trek: Starship Creator SiN (updated version) There are other things on each disc, like Earthlink and AOL and patch wad files for Doom/Doom2, etc.
If you don't mind checking french PC gaming magazines demo discs, you can go here: http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/ I recommend the following: -PCFUN, it started in 1994 and ended in 2001, I'm slowly scanning the mags and uploading the discs: http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=71&page=2 -Génération 4, this one started in 1987, demo discs are available since January 1995: http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=27&page=11 -PC team, it started in april 1995: http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=109&page=2
