Making a Demo Archive

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Would it be possible to create a section on this board dedicated to preserving Sierra demos? Maybe under the new archives section?

Demos were only ever made to be freely distributed. So my guess is that it wouldn’t be illegal to do so. And there are quite a few demos out there that I never played, and others which I reckon are worth sharing, for example the Space Quest 6 demo, the Freddie Pharkas demo, that talkie Robin Hood demo, all those old AGI demos, etc.

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Yes, let’s do that. Anyone who has a demo to share, please email me. I will setup a demo page temporarily under the new TSA section. (Eventually the demos will go to the TSA site).

For anyone who has a demo to contribute, let’s first try to get a hold of demos from the original disks that they were on. I’ll ask you to scan the demo disk itself to certain specs (I’ll make a page about that on the TSA area).

Who was it who was working on that disk imaging program? How’s it going? That’s what I’d like to use ideally for doing this.

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Test

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Brian Provinciano has quite a few on his “The Ultimate AGI & SCI Web Site”, though he now has them hosted through File Planet. I managed to get most of them before he moved them. I have about 32 Megs worth of them. Here is a list of what I have:

AGI demos:

DEMOPAC1(HelicopterSim_PQ_Thexder_SQ2_Mixed-upMG_LSL).zip
DEMOPAC2(HelicopterSim_SQ2_Thexder_KQ3_Mixed-upMG_KQ2_PQLSL_SQ).zip
DEMOPAC3(HelicopterSim_SQ2_PQ_KQ3_Mixed-upMG_LSL).zip
DEMOPAC4(GoldRush_ManhunterNewYork_Mixed-upMG_PQ_SQ2_LSL).zip
DEMOPAC5(SQ_DonaldDucksPlayground_KQ3_LSL).zip
KQ4AGIDEMO.ZIP

SCI demos:

Castle_of_Dr_Brain_(DB1DEMO).zip
Conquests_of_the_Longbow_Talkie_Demo.zip
ECO1DEMO.ZIP
ECO2DEMO.ZIP
FREDDEMO.ZIP
FREDDOS.ZIP
GKDEMO.ZIP
GOB2_PRV.ZIP
GOB3DEMO.ZIP
GOBLINS1.ZIP
Island_of_Dr_Brain_(IODB).zip
KQ1DEMO.ZIP
LB2.ZIP
LSL1VGA.ZIP
LSL3.ZIP
LSL5.ZIP
MGDEMO.ZIP
MUFT.ZIP
PEPDEMO.ZIP
QFG1DEMO.ZIP
QFG3DEMO.ZIP
QFG4DEMO.ZIP
SQ1.ZIP
SQ5.ZIP

Christmas Cards:

AGI-XMAS.ZIP
SCICARD.ZIP
seasonedpro-16.zip
seasonedpro-256.zip
VGASEASN.ZIP

I have others that came on many of the game CDs, but I would have to look through them to see what all I have. Let me know if you want any or all of them.

[Unknown,Unknown]

Great list, Collector. I have some of those too (a couple on their original disks). For now, let’s just get these online for people to enjoy, and worry about original disk archiving later. I’ll send you an email Collector regarding getting these to me. I want to post them up on a page in the TSA area, as opposed to posting them here as an attachment to a message.

If anyone else has alternate demos, please post here.

[Unknown,Unknown]

> Who was it who was working on that disk imaging program?
That must be me 😉

> How’s it going?
I’ve recently taken some time from the project, working namely on the keyboard processor emulation for an Atari ST emulator (http://leonard.oxg.free.fr/),  and a PCjr cartridge dumper (http://www.oldskool.org/pc/tand-em/jripcart/),  but I’m about to resume work on Disk2FDI (http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi).  I should be able to finish the program within a couple of months. Then, I’ll test the program on various disks. But the part to make the best images possible is already fully functional. It only needs some testing.

I have also now collected a fairly complete collection of King’s Quest games for all machines (Apple 2, Apple 2GS, Macintosh, PC, Amiga, ST, even Tandy CoCo3), and will also image all these.
I’ll certainly drop a line here when this is done.

> That’s what I’d like to use ideally for doing this.
Yes, that would definitely be the best. I also think there were some demo disks released for other machines than the PC, but they are probably much rarer.

Vincent.

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Cool Vincent, keep up the good work. I really look forward to when it’s all good to go.

[Unknown,Unknown]

I’ve been hunting and gathering on the net, and going through various CDs.  This is what I’ve got so far:

xmas_card_1986_ver1.zip
xmas_card_1986_ver2.zip
xmas_card_1988.zip
xmas_card_1991_sci.zip
xmas_card_1992.zip
xmas_card_1993_16.zip
xmas_card_1993_256.zip
xmas_card_1993_256_2.zip
demo_pc_1987_2nd_quarter_agi_4_games.zip
demo_pc_1987_4th_quarter_agi_6_games.zip
demo_pc_1987_4th_quarter_agi_9_games.zip
demo_pc_1987_agi_5_tandy_games.zip
demo_pc_1988_1st_quarter_agi_6_games.zip
demo_pc_1988_4th_quarter_agi_6_games.zip
demo_pc_aces_of_the_deep.zip
demo_pc_conquest-2.zip
demo_pc_conquest-2_b.zip
demo_pc_dr_brain-1.zip
demo_pc_dr_brain-2.zip
demo_pc_ecoquest-1.zip
demo_pc_ecoquest-2_a.zip
demo_pc_ecoquest-2_b.zip
demo_pc_ecoquest-2_c.zip
demo_pc_freddy_pharkus_dos.zip
demo_pc_freddy_pharkus_dos_b.zip
demo_pc_freddy_pharkus_windows.zip
demo_pc_gabriel_knight.zip
demo_pc_goblins-1.zip
demo_pc_goblins-2.zip
demo_pc_goblins-3_fr.zip
demo_pc_goblins-3_fr_b.zip
demo_pc_holyes-4.zip
demo_pc_hoyles_classic_card_games.zip
demo_pc_inca-1.zip
demo_pc_incredible_machine-2_the_even_more_incredible_machine.zip
demo_pc_incredible_machine.zip
demo_pc_incredible_toon_machine.zip
demo_pc_kings_quest-1_remake.zip
demo_pc_kings_quest-4_agi.zip
demo_pc_kings_quest-4_tandy_season_greetings.zip
demo_pc_kings_quest-6.zip
demo_pc_kings_quest-8.zip
demo_pc_laura_bow-2.zip
demo_pc_leisure_suit_larry-1.zip
demo_pc_leisure_suit_larry-5.zip
demo_pc_mixed_up_fairytales.zip
demo_pc_nova_9.zip
demo_pc_peppers_adventures_in_time.zip
demo_pc_police_quest-3_pc.zip
demo_pc_quest_for_glory-1.zip
demo_pc_quest_for_glory-3.zip
demo_pc_quest_for_glory-4.zip
demo_pc_quest_for_glory-4_b.zip
demo_pc_quest_for_glory-5_a.zip
demo_pc_quest_for_glory-5_b.zip
demo_pc_space_quest-1_remake.zip
demo_pc_space_quest-5.zip
demo_pc_space_quest-6.zip
demo_pc_space_quest-6_sound_file.zip
demo_pc_ween_the_prophecy.zip
demo_pc_zeliard.zip

I’ve found possible mutiple demos for some games (i.e. ecoquest II), they may actually be functionally the same but the date stamps and included files are different.

I’m also gathering together all the ‘movie’ demos where I find them, and will also probably make ‘movie’ demos out of the non-playable demos from the above list.

I’m hoping to put them up on my site on a scheduled rotation to prevent my bandwidth from being killed.

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Collector previously sent me his collection. This looks like a great collection as well. If you can set me up with the files, I’ll finally get a section set up here on this website where they can all be kept and everyone can download them.

[Unknown,Unknown]

Hello,

I thought I had all the versions of the xmas demos.  Could anyone tell me what the difference is between the ver1 and ver2 versions listed below?  In addition, what is the difference between the 1992 and 1993 versions?

xmas_card_1986_ver1.zip
xmas_card_1986_ver2.zip

xmas_card_1992.zip

xmas_card_1993_256.zip
xmas_card_1993_256_2.zip

Thanks Mark

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