Places to download shareware games and demo releases

[MrFlibble]

Downloads from Gamesmania Demo Depot:

• Air Power: airdemo.zip
• Amok: amok.zip
• Amulets & Armor (v1.0): aademo1.zip
• Apache: apchdem1.zip
• Archimedean Dynasty: ad.zip
• Arena (v2.1): arena21.zip
• Ascendancy: ascdemo.zip
• Baldies (Win95): baldem.zip
• Battle Wrath: wrath.zip
• Cannon Fodder: cannon.zip
• Capitalism (v1.0): capdemo1.zip
• Deadlock (v1.20): dlddemo.zip
• Deep Fortress: dpfort.zip
• Discworld: discwrld.zip
• Eradicator (v1.02): eraddemo.zip
• F-22 Lightning II: f22demo.exe
• Hind: The Russian Combat Helicopter Simulation: hind2.zip
• Hot Shot: hotdemo.zip
• In Pursuit of Greed (v4.0): greedemo.zip
• Iron Blood: iron.zip
• Jagged Alliance: deadly Games: dgdemo.zip
• Jane's Combat Simulations: Advanced Tactical Fighters: atfdemo.zip
• Out of this World: ootwdemo.zip
• Powerslave (beta): pwrslave.zip
• The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici: settlers2.zip
• War Diary: wardiary.zip

NOTE: This is not the full list.

[MrFlibble]

Manaccom

• Down Under Dan: net_dan.exe speech1.exe speech2.exe speech3.exe speech4.exe speech5.exe
• Kingdom at War: net_kaw.exe
• Luna Ticks: net_lt.exe

Baron Baldric: A Grave Adventure

• v1.0 (11.12.1992): baronb.zip
• v1.0 (11.12.1992): BALDRC12.ZIP [claims to be v1.2; Precision Software Publishing installer]
• v2.1 (07.04.1993): DISK3590.ZIP [the installer is probably not original]
• v2.2 (25.04.1993): baron1.zip [the archive has some third-party files]
• v2.2 (25.04.1993): bald220.arj [German version]

[MrFlibble]

Blue Byte Software

• The Settlers demo (German): siedemo.exe [file is identical to the one from BB FTP]
• The Settlers II demo (English): s2demo.exe

[MrFlibble]

Depth Dwellers

• v1.0 (17.05.1994): depth.zip
• v1.3 (30.05.1994): depth13.zip
• v1.4 (24.06.1994): DEPTH14.ZIP
• v1.5 (25.08.1994): DEPTH15.ZIP
• Preview screenshots: DDPIC1.ZIP

[MrFlibble]

The HTTP mirror of the University of Michigan FTP appears to have been preserved to some extend by the Wayback Machine:
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/games/

[MrFlibble]

Rogue's Quest

• v1.0g: RQ10G.ZIP
• v1.0m: rq10m-p1.zip

[developertn]

Jesus Christ!hehe

People who know me know me as a kind person. They know that I am a God loving person who tries to treat everyone with love. The truth is I am a strict person who tries to hold on to some sense of value. I am fair. If I could have ten pretty "compatible" women or 1 woman who is my "soulmate" - I prefer my soulmate. Remember the story of Adam and Eve in The Garden of Eden? Eve is the only soulmate for Adam. God has made only 1 person for Adam. I am looking for my own soulmate.

SOULMATE

That is tough in this present world. How are you going to choose out of 8 billion people the right one who is supposed to be your SOULMATE.

According to The Holy Bible - only if you wait, God gives you the one known as "SOULMATE"!

Anyways, that was a little preview to what I am talking about in games. You go through games testing and think you will never play because you do not like video games. Then one day you bump into a game you realize might be the one.

What if the theory of The Holy Bible can be applied to video games? MrFlibble keeps giving demos and the right person receive it for free because it is meant for them. What if there can be only one just like The Holy Bible says! That would be a true miracle. No matter how much you fight it you cannot break from your "video game SOULMATE".

Well, I tried downloading both versions above and the last version downloaded. I really like how it is made. I have not the chance to play it however I just like the style.

Thank you Jesus Christ that I have my true SOULMATE and no matter what I try I cannot mess around whether it be videogame-soulmate or marriage-soulmate#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tien Khoa Nguyen

[MrFlibble]

I'm happy you like these games! Thank you for your kind words!!!

[developertn]

Well, in the one game I downloaded from here Rogue's Quest. You get to walk around and it is so bold as to have a dungeon of unknown. I am not so foolish as to walk in the dungeon of unknown! haha

[MrFlibble]

Tien, may I kindly remind you that when you change the title in the "Subject:" field, on the front page and in the RSS feed this appears to other users as if you have created a separate topic with that title. This might be very confusing to other users. In fact, right now I was under the impression that you have started a new topic here, whereas in fact it is a reply in an existing thread. Users who rely on the RSS feed to view the forums can easily lose track of what post belongs where.

So please do not change the title in the "Subject:" field when posting.

[MrFlibble]

Rogue's Quest also has add-on scenarios (dungeons) which were created by players using the supplied scenario editor. The site linked to above had a zip file with all scenarios but it was not preserved by the Wayback Machine. However, another site had separate file downloads which are available:

• Arena: arena.zip
• The Basements of Terror : basement.zip
• The Big "B": bigb.zip
• The Brussel Underground: wbcellar.zip
• The Crypt: crypt.zip
• Demon Blade 1: blade1.zip
• Demon Blade 2: blade2.zip
• Demon Blade 3 : Gaurdian's Revenge: blade3.zip
• Demon Blade 4 : Hidden Castle: blade4.zip
• The Dungeon of Doom: doom.zip
• The Dungeon of Doom 2: doom2.zip
• The Dungeon of Motmagande: dark.zip
• The Dungeon of the Vampires: daves.zip
• The Dungeons of Death: lincoln.zip
• Earthquake 2: earthquake2.zip
• The Goblin Guard: goblin.zip
• The Goblin Guard 2: goblin2.zip
• The Haunted Tower of the Sonic: sonic.zip
• The Isle of the Holy Order: holyo.zip
• The Labyrinths under Marsh Mansion: labyrnth.zip
• Levelless Land: levelless.zip
• Lohman Dungeon: lohman.zip
• The Night of the Living Dead: livdead.zip
• The Quest for Anduril: anduril.zip
• Search for Krispo: krispo.zip
• Sterimus' City: sterimus.zip
• The Tomb of Arthur: toa.zip
• The Tomb of the Conquerer: tomb.zip
• The Tomb of the Conquerer 2: tomb2.zip
• Valekra: valekra.zip
• Zulgil's Horde: DemonRealm.zip

[MrFlibble]

Electronic Music And Graphic (EMAG) Software Inc.

• SideLine: sideline.exe

[MrFlibble]

ShareDirect

• Charly the Clown: charly.zip
• ColorStar: color331.zip
• Magic Words: magic.zip
• Pogo's Dreams: shpogo.zip
• WinBlocker: wblocker.zip

[MrFlibble]

Here's another file archive directory that appears to have been quite well-preserved:
http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/pub/ibm/

[MrFlibble]

Here's an FTP mirror of the gamers.org uwp-uml archive:
ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/uwpuml/