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Litude wrote:Here's a little archive which includes all Tyrian pre-release shots that I've come across. It includes the ones you found but they don't have that text overlaying them.

Litude wrote:3D Realms
Duke Nukem 3D
Found a Computer Gaming World exclusive one level demo version of Duke Nukem 3D. No idea why it was produced since the shareware version had already been released.
CGW 1-Level Demo Version 1.1 - Files

MetHy wrote: I didn't get the 3 levels demo on macintosh, I got it on PC (to run under DOS obviously), with a french magazine. It's a magazine that used to come every 3 months in France with 3 cds, one full of game demos, one full of (mostly useless) sharewares, utilities and game patches and add-ons (lke user made levels) and one with 3 older full games.
I got plenty of Duke3D usermaps with later issues of this magazine before I got an internet connection (yes they used to collect them and actually sell them with all the other stuff).

Anyway here is the file, I just played it using Dosbox (doesn't run with Eduke32 ) and it actually is the shareware version but cut down to 3 levels. The only major difference with the final version of the game is how the musics sound, but maybe that's due to Dosbox and not the demo itself. I've spotted other differences but all of them are probably the same minor differences you'd find in the shareware version.

If you beat lvl3 you're back to Hollywood Holocaust with all your gear but with the music of Toxic Dump playing (it even says "Toxic Dump" as level title). [source]

TerminX wrote: That 3 level version is interesting. The GRP file has been edited by hand to blank the names of E1L4.MAP-E1L6.MAP but they're still in the file. There are similar sloppy edits to the screen shown when the game exits. I suspect the magazine just took the released version 1.1 shareware and made their own edits in order to limit it to 3 levels, but I have no idea why they would do such a thing. [source]

MetHy wrote: The Duke Demo was in PC Collector Magazine Issue #02 May 1996

http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/af ... &album=oui

Check the part about Duke, it's in French though but there are screenshots and interview

For the other demos further investigation is needed

Edit : - you can see the freezer but the reviewer/tester says it's a flamethrower, 'not fun to use but efficient against big waves'
reading the interview, the composer claims that in duke3D musics don't loop, that they can are interactive with the level (stop in a calm moment then start again)
- Greg Malone says that they are making a sequel of Duke3D using the same engine (probably actually Atomic Edition) and then 'another one' (DNF?) [source]

MrFlibble wrote:Here's a clean version of Radix v2.0: radsw20.zip

Found it at the 3D Gamers' Archives file archive.

Litude wrote:3D Realms
Duke Nukem 3D
Found a Computer Gaming World exclusive one level demo version of Duke Nukem 3D. No idea why it was produced since the shareware version had already been released.
CGW 1-Level Demo Version 1.1 - Files