Sierra demos in your browser

[Collector]

Sigh... alas, I got zipola. I tried clicking on LSL7, and the Java screen began to work - however, I just got a black square.

The LSL7 is a 40 MB download. I need to add a warning for anyone with a slower connection.

So I gave up and tried Freddy Pharkas instead, and I got this:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /jDOSBox/.html on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_jk/1.2.30 Server at sierrahelp.com Port 80

Not sure what the problem could be! *shrugs*

Thanks for the catch. The link is good on the image, but hadn't been added right to the description below.

[Collector]

A small suggestion.

How about putting all the demos in a horizontal scroll (perhaps using a spin control for paging?) so that vertical scrolling of the entire page would not be necessary? So we could scroll through the other available titles while the current game is loading.

You mean like this?

Sierra demos

The links on the descriptions are now fixed.

[gumby]

Yeah, like that. Very nice.

[Collector]

A lot of the demos are broken or have things wrong with them. Some is because I got them off of the internet and they were archived improperly, some because Sierra missed things. Others are incomplete rips. The LSL3 demo had no AdLib support, only MT-32 support, despite having included an ADL.DRV. I extracted the audio resources and patches from the full version and added the ones that the demo uses to add AdLib support. The PQ2 demo has a corrupted resource file. No one seems to know where a good copy is. OmarMor extracted the View resources from the full version, but there was no audio, either. Again I extracted the audio from the full version to re-add the corrupted audio.

I am going through all of my Sierra discs looking for and cataloging them. I'll see if I can track down some of the broken demos to archive them properly. One that I would love to get my hands on, even if only an ISO, is the Sierra Demo CD. Most of the demos on the internet that are broken came from this CD because they were badly ripped.

[dotkel50]

Let us know what you're looking for. Maybe one of us has it.

[Collector]

I'll make an announcement after I go through my discs. There might be other things missing.

[MusicallyInspired]

I have a Sierra Demo CD. It's called Sierra's Sneak Peaks. It doesn't have any EGA game demos, though, to my knowledge. Just SCI1 (VGA) and up. It also has demos for games from Bright Star, Coktel Vision, and Dynamix among other then Sierra-owned brands.

[Collector]

Could you list the games on it?

[MusicallyInspired]

Of the Sierra demos:

Freddy Pharkas
Gabriel Knight
Hoyle 3
Hoyle Classic Card Games (I assume this is a VGA remake of the first one)
King's Quest 6
Laura Bow 2
Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA
Leisure Suit Larry 5
Leisure Suit Larry 6
Outpost
Police Quest 3
Police Quest 4
Quest For Glory 1 VGA
Quest For Glory 3
Quest For Glory 4
Slater & Charlie
Space Quest 1 VGA
Space Quest 5

[BBP]

On LSL7 I got:

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Z:\>imgmount c jar://LSL7DEMO.img -size 512,16,2,512
Can't create drive from file

Z:\>c:
Drive C does not exist! 
You must mount it first. Type intro or mount for more information.

Z:\>autorun
Illegal command: autorun.

Z:\>

[audiodane]

Oh wow, this is just totally awesome.. GREAT JOB Collector (and everyone else who's helped to make this possible)!! Get me some time on my hands and I foresee a few GOG purchases coming up (from SHP links of course!) ...

..dane

[Collector]

Oh wow, this is just totally awesome.. GREAT JOB Collector (and everyone else who's helped to make this possible)!! Get me some time on my hands and I foresee a few GOG purchases coming up (from SHP links of course!) ...

..dane

I hadn't thought about it, but I should add GOG links to ones that GOG sells.

@ BBP, I need to disable LSL7 until jDOSBox is a little more developed. It also will be problematic for those with a slower connections. I probably need to also use a different method to load it that would be a little more conducive to the large size of the download.

@ MI, That looks identical to the demos on the SO release of Gobliiins CD. The Hoyle Classic Card Games is Hoyle 4. You can see it on the jDOSBox page.

This is just a start to a demo page. I want to add information about each demo and download links and now GOG links for the ones GOG has.

[OmerMor]

(Sorry for the the resurrection)

I have a Sierra Demo CD. It's called Sierra's Sneak Peaks. It doesn't have any EGA game demos, though, to my knowledge. Just SCI1 (VGA) and up. It also has demos for games from Bright Star, Coktel Vision, and Dynamix among other then Sierra-owned brands.

Brian,
Can you please upload the CD somewhere? I can't find it online...

[Collector]

You mean Brandon?

[OmerMor]

Of course!