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Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 6th, 2013, 8:17 am
by MrFlibble
Hmm, I wonder why some files from 2000 and earlier that are over 1 MB have this problem, while others don't? Did they retrospectively fix some of the files? Is it somehow related to the original file size?

For example, the Warlords II Deluxe demo is 3,7 MB, and the Radix Shareware Patch v2.0 is 1,5 MB, but they don't stop downloading after 1 MB like the Hexen and Heretic demo versions, even though the links for the working files point to snapshots from 1998.

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 6th, 2013, 9:24 am
by MrFlibble
MrFlibble wrote:Also there's the Italian tiscali.it website that also has a huge collection of stuff but the tricky thing is that due to poor maintenance it only works if you copy-paste each link manually into the browser's address bar, and you can't navigate folders. Here's some known folders with Windows games (there's no real system behind dividing the games into the Win95, Win98 and WinNT folders, but anyway):
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows/win3xx/games/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows/win95/games/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... es/arcade/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... mes/demos/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... games/rpg/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... /strategy/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows/win98/games/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... es/arcade/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... mes/demos/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... games/rpg/
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... /strategy/

To download anything from that site, copy the download link for the file you want and change "ftp://ftp.volftp.mondadori.com/" in it to "http://volftp.tiscali.it/"
I've figured out this website can be browsed by means of the Wayback Machine too:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vol ... os/games/*
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vol ... xx/games/*
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vol ... 95/games/*
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vol ... 98/games/*
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://vol ... 50/games/*

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 6th, 2013, 10:58 am
by MrFlibble
Longbow Digital Arts

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 7th, 2013, 10:49 am
by MrFlibble
Some more FTP sites:
ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/systems/dos/games/
ftp://ftp.pgp.net/pub/msdos/dos/games/local/
ftp://delphi.hs-niederrhein.de/pub/dos/games/
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/PC/
ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/systems/win95/games/
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm1/ntware/games/files/
ftp://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/.m/archive1l/ft ... n95/games/

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 7th, 2013, 11:57 am
by MrFlibble
RealTech Spectrum Pacific Publishing

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 10th, 2013, 10:28 am
by MrFlibble
Springsoft

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 25th, 2013, 10:58 am
by MrFlibble
Tactical Soft

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 25th, 2013, 3:13 pm
by MrFlibble
Edited the first post to make the list of shareware developers & publishers a bit more easy to navigate, and added the following sites:

11th Dimension Entertainment
KnightSoft Technologies
Longbow Games
Malfador Machinations
Tactical Soft

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 26th, 2013, 10:44 am
by MrFlibble
Totally forgot to add Dataware Software.

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 26th, 2013, 3:28 pm
by MrFlibble
More sites:
300AD
Astatix
Black Sky
BlitWise Productions
Brain Block Interactive, Inc.
Choco Snow Creation
Codeminion
Computer-Game.Us
Cornutopia
Divo Games
Games 2 Download
Gearhead Studios
Jade Games
Jagged Blade Games
Mitorah Games
Niels Bauer Games
Phelios
Quest Engine
Redclaw Games
Retro 247 Games
Stormcloud Creations
Superluminal Inc.
Suricate Software
Terminal Studio
VSBgames

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 27th, 2013, 6:13 pm
by MrFlibble
Holistic Design

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: May 31st, 2013, 7:16 pm
by MrFlibble
Tactical Soft

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: June 2nd, 2013, 7:32 pm
by MrFlibble
Codo Technologies Ltd.

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: June 5th, 2013, 8:16 am
by MrFlibble
Awem - an indie developer with some nice-looking shmup games.

Re: Places to download shareware games and demo releases

Posted: July 8th, 2013, 12:28 pm
by MrFlibble
11th Dimension Entertainment
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