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Thanks to Hallfiry's catalogue I found a big collection of preview screenshots for later Sierra games from 1996. Hallfiry kindly uploaded the contents of that CD here.

BTW, since I haven't played the full game, can anyone tell if the demo mission is a special level or a part of the full campaign? YouTube playthroughs are little help because IIRC there are branching missions and some may not be shown.

A while ago I downloaded the playable demo of EarthSiege from here , only to find out that it did not want to work. I had no idea how to fix that and left it for a while, until sometime later, I found a slightly different version of the same demo on a magazine coverdisk (specifically, this one ), wh...

Hey guys, It's been quite a while since I last showed up here, but my interest in the history of DOS games and related materials continues, and recently I made a rather interesting discovery. A while ago, a user in the BetaArchive forums posted links to a working Wayback Machine snapshot of a German...

The downloads page at Sierra's old website ( Wayback Machine link ) mentioned two demo versions of the game: Caesar 2 (Windows 3.1x version) caesar2.exe Playable demo, 2837 k This city-management simulation from Impressions will put you in the heart of the Roman Empire! Caesar 2 (Win95 version) csr2...

Here's a couple recent freeware releases:
In Pursuit of Greed (plus source code)
Tailchaser

adeyke wrote:Wikipedia lists it as a "[Game] no longer freely distributed".

Thanks for the clarification!

This is something I've just learned from this old post: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/freeware-news/conversations/messages/969 Apparently back in 1999 and the early 2000s the full version of Caesar was available fro a legitimate download from Impressions Games' website: http://www.impressionsg...

A while ago I found a shareware version of a DOS FPS called Alien Cabal . While being essentially a 2.5D first-person game typical of early-mid nineties, it tried to take a more realistic approach to level design, similar to Duke Nukem 3D and later games. However, Alien Cabal was released in late 19...

For example you might want to know what magazines published a certain demo (or free full) version. If it was not downloadable off the Internet but only distributed on magazine cover CDs (e.g. for file size considerations) then this feature is really helpful. On another note, an interesting YouTube c...

There's one feature there which may be not self-evident, if a file interests you you can click on the magnifying glass icon to the left of the file name, and the search engine will provide you with all entries in the database which have exactly the same size and extension. Hallfiry kindly reminded ...

Hallfiry 's CD Index is a really powerful tool to research various releases of old games. There's one feature there which may be not self-evident, if a file interests you you can click on the magnifying glass icon to the left of the file name, and the search engine will provide you with all entries...

Hallfiry's CD Index - an incredibly powerful search engine that allows to view contents of more than two thousand magazine cover disks from the 90s and the 2000s. Prominent English, German, French, Polish and other magazines are featured, and links to CD images are present where possible (including...

Yeah, I figured the blog is in Spanish (since it has links to Spanish Wikipedia). Here's some of the interesting games from the database that caught my attention: Tecno - The Base - a futuristic FPS made in the early 2000s style, although apparently it was released much later than that. PaybackTime ...

Just found this really huge blog dedicated to liberated games: http://juegosliberados.blogspot.com/ It's in either Spanish or Portuguese (can't tell because I'm not very familiar with both languages), but everything is pretty self-explanatory. The blog seems to feature quite a few really obscure gam...