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Duke Nukem 3D Shareware CDs thread

User is offline   LakiSoft 

#31

View PostNightFright, on 15 April 2019 - 10:51 PM, said:

Here are the goodies for anyone who wants to take a look.

Duke3D v1.0 Shareware CDV Edition (ISO, 12 MB)
Highres pic of CD cover (JPG, 5.8 MB)

Regarding the ISO:
As mentioned, it's best if you use e.g. 7-Zip to unpack the ISO to a place on your disk, mount that folder as drive in DosBox and run start.bat from there. Alternatively, just skip the DOS installer and unzip duke3d.zip in the zip subdir.


@NightFright Thanks for sharing ISO of youe disk, very interesting find. Esspecially CD Cover with those press release screens maeks things even morei nteresting. What aattracted most attenttion to me are those screenshots with Space SUit used in udnerwater area in Toxic Dump and and altenrative starting area of Toxic Dump with 4 switched rathen than 3 and on different side of wall, very interesting. Aslo the other screenshots contains E2 and E3 registered levels that were present only in older versions of game that are not released to us. Old versions of Duke are lime ystery, they jsut keep showing new stuff we enver found out using the registered or atomic version. Really interesting again. Thanks for sharing!

Also even if it's bit off-topic i wouldn't mind if you share other discs with other games you mentioned to have. Thank you!
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User is online   NightFright 

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#32

Very well. Here it is, then.

Hexen 4-Level Demo / CDV Edition (ISO, 13.7 MB)
Highres pic of CD cover (JPG, 5.4 MB)

Gotta love these description texts:
"With its realism unrivalled until now, Hexen is a true masterpiece. This game bursts with ideas and is stuffed with interactive scenes. In this captivatingly scary fantasy experience, you embark upon a nightmare adventure to destroy the sinister rulers. In each section of this colossal fight with the most horrible creatures, nerve-racking suspense is guaranteed. A new game by id Software - with the masterful 3D engine."

Other than the Duke3D disc, this one comes with 9 more demos (I gotta admit I have never even heard of those games):
- Dreamworld Adventure (DOS)
- Gravity Well (Windows)
- Julietta (Windows)
- Powerball (Windows)
- Recycle Mania (Windows)
- Rock Man (DOS)
- Shazy (DOS)
- TZ-Minigolf (Windows)
- WW2 in Europe (DOS)

The Windows games are probably completely useless since they require Win 3.11 to run. Dreamworld, Rock Man, Shazy and WW2 may work with DOSBox.

This post has been edited by NightFright: 17 April 2019 - 11:13 PM

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User is offline   pacman 

#33

weird ass screenshots on those cds

my neighbour had a million floppy disks with the shareware version
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User is offline   LakiSoft 

#34

View Postpacman, on 11 May 2019 - 11:52 AM, said:

weird ass screenshots on those cds

my neighbour had a million floppy disks with the shareware version


Really? That sounds nice. I know that 3D Realms specified exactly that they will only sell Registered version on CD-ROM only. Though it looks Shareware was also sold on Floopies not only on CDs. Nice thing though.
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User is offline   Sanek 

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View PostGingis Khan, on 11 May 2019 - 12:37 PM, said:

Really? That sounds nice. I know that 3D Realms specified exactly that they will only sell Registered version on CD-ROM only. Though it looks Shareware was also sold on Floopies not only on CDs. Nice thing though.


Googled this:

Posted Image

Manaccom release.

This post has been edited by Sanek: 11 May 2019 - 12:47 PM

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User is offline   LakiSoft 

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View PostSanek, on 11 May 2019 - 12:44 PM, said:

Googled this:

http://toxic-owl.com...ppy-Release-Aus

Manaccom release.



This looks so nice. I wish i had these. But i am still happy with my Duke Nukem 3D Shareware Episode v1.1 CD. It also contains Terminal Velocity Shareware v1.2 as well. BTW Duke Nukem 3D v1.1 still contains Space Suit fully working code. Lizard Enforcer still shooting with Flamethrower. Assault Commander were weaker and have no ability to fly. Senty Drones still beahves like Head Snakes. Overlord code still is not present. Cycloid Emperoer is weaken than Battlelord but beahves more or less same as him, making him totally different than what it become in Full Registered version and Atomic Edition.
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User is offline   Sanek 

#37

I actually never heard of Duke3D on floppies before searching this now. I know that Terminal Velocity was released on floppy disks and was distributed by FormGen/3DR themselves.

So Manaccom had a 3'5 floppy release of Duke3D. I wonder if other vendors was doing that. <_<
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User is offline   LakiSoft 

#38

@Sanek
I only heard of semi-offical French magazine version that cmae on Magazine's CD ad for some reason it was cut on 3-levels. Other thing i know of is Duke Nukem CGW Demo version which is cut to one-level only. There is probably more unoffical and semi-offical shareware versions of Duke like these, but they aren't quite well-known and are usually rare to be found nowadays.

@NightFright
Hey NightFright, i jsut checked Duke Nukem 3D German Shareware CD ISo you provided and palyed the gmae on Piece of Cake difficulty skill. You were right, between this German v1.0 and offiical v1.0 there is no any differences. Still German model distribution was nice thing though. Thnaks for sharing once again.
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User is offline   dwtietz 

#39

I have the German CDV Duke Nukem 3D v1.1 shareware CD, but I didn't know that there was also a v1.0 CD by them as well ~ That's pretty cool. I am aware of at least one other Duke Nukem 3D v1.0 shareware CD that was distributed regionally in Spain by a company called Friendware:

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User is offline   LakiSoft 

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View Postdwtietz, on 02 June 2022 - 10:46 AM, said:

I have the German CDV Duke Nukem 3D v1.1 shareware CD, but I didn't know that there was also a v1.0 CD by them as well ~ That's pretty cool. I am aware of at least one other Duke Nukem 3D v1.0 shareware CD that was distributed regionally in Spain by a company called Friendware:


This looks cool! Thank for sharing. :)
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User is online   ck3D 

#41

View PostGingis Khan, on 11 May 2019 - 02:33 PM, said:

@Sanek
I only heard of semi-offical French magazine version that cmae on Magazine's CD ad for some reason it was cut on 3-levels. Other thing i know of is Duke Nukem CGW Demo version which is cut to one-level only. There is probably more unoffical and semi-offical shareware versions of Duke like these, but they aren't quite well-known and are usually rare to be found nowadays.


This takes me back because I just remembered trying to order Duke 3D shareware on floppy disks back in 1997 or so (?) via mail service after seeing an ad in a French PC magazine. Not just Duke 3D too but also Doom and a shitload more I was trying to get at once because as a kid it felt like one of those 'too good to be true' deals (but I remember my dad was on it too) - some company somewhere in the country selling shareware versions of all kinds of third party 'games' (the shareware nature being kept pretty low-key) for what looked dirt cheap and just listing them all like that in a published print ad. Only a fraction of the 'games' ended up showing up after my dad and I ordered and that's when we realized the catch - not just it was all demos but the prices listed were also per individual floppy disk and not per game - for instance I think Duke 3D was supposed to come on eight floppy disks? - so basically a scam. I can't remember which games did show up exactly (only that Duke 3D didn't), but I remember all the floppy disks were very classic, plain black and sported variants of the same label with absolutely no imagery, just the titles and floppy disk numbers (maybe a small caption and/or hardware specs requirements) in a Notepad-like font. Was so 'semi-official' I straight up never heard or saw anything from the company ever again after that ad and interaction. To be fair, they had been nice enough to hook my dad and I up with a couple of floppy disks for free just so that we could actually play some of the demos in full (...) despite how we had just 'lowballed' (...) them.

This post has been edited by ck3D: 02 June 2022 - 10:05 PM

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User is offline   DNSKILL5 

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#42

I was going to make another thread but saw this and decided to share this here for anyone interested. I uploaded some of my discs onto archive.org. Some of these are already on there, but I either didn't realize it before uploading or didn't agree with the way the other uploader posted them. These are all ISOs and retain their correct dates.

  • This is the Duke Nukem 3D v1.1 Shareware included with the "Limited Edition Duke Nukem Action Figure", which IIRC is just the Duke Nukem figure from the 90s that included the freezethrower and this CD inside the box. I am pretty sure it was sold through 3DR's online store. It also includes the shareware of Terminal Velocity.
  • This is Duke Nukem 3D v1.3D Shareware as well as other material included with the Official DN3D strategy guide by Sybex. Note, this disc is only included with the Registered version of the book, not the Atomic Edition versions. There are some awesome texture mapped overviews of all the maps of E1-E3, as well as line-view versions. Some of the maps, specifically Stadium, appear to be slightly different versions of the maps (likely from the unreleased v1.2).
  • This is Duke Nukem 3D v1.1 Shareware included in the May 1996 PC Gamer magazine. There are several other game demos and sharewares included on this disc.
  • Lastly, though not technically a SW, I decided to share my copy of Duke!Zone.

Other stuff that isn't Duke but fits the discussion and aren't worth making a whole new thread over:

  • Witchaven 3 level demo. This is different from the electronically distributed version. That version uses an older version of the game whereas this one uses the same version of the final game.
  • Doom + Heretic Combo SW. This disc has the Doom and Heretic logos on it.
  • Wolf 3D + Blake Stone AOG. This has both shareware versions of these games plus some ancient level sets from fans, tools for editing the game and creating levels, as well as some old school documentation.
  • Quake SW. This is the version with IDSTUFF intact.
  • Blood Retail SW. This is definitely using a slightly older version of Blood compared to other shareware versions. Notably, the gargoyles have an animation where you can see them transform from stone to flesh. In the final game, as well as other shareware releases, they just appear instantly from stone to flesh. There are also some other minor differences here as well. I have heard that originally this was meant to be released with a white box and CD case, but it was changed to black.
  • D!Zone CE. Shovelware for Doom.


This post has been edited by DNSKILL: 01 July 2022 - 01:39 PM

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User is online   NightFright 

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#43

I wished I'd find my "Violence in 3-D" shovelware CD again. It had maps for Descent, Doom, ROTT, Duke3D and Dark Forces on it (IIRC). It's so rare these days that there's no digital copy of it anywhere AFAIK.
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