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you'll find various games and demos preinstalled, thanks to an old MacWorld Demo CD from 1997. Namely, Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Alley 19 Bo

you'll find various games and demos preinstalled, thanks to an old MacWorld Demo CD from 1997. Namely, Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Alley 19 Bowling, Damage Incorporated, and Dungeons & Dragons. Oh this is not just looks, which would already be nice, but it actually runs stuff.

setgree 6y ago
Are all these games abandonware? Even if not, I can’t imagine anyone pursuing a legal case, but it would be the kind of thing I worried about.
- dylan604 6y ago
  It was stated that they originated from a MacWorld demo disc, so the companies were fine with giving the software away.
- indrax 6y ago
  Demo CD's would often feature shareware versions of software.
- dimitar 6y ago
  They are from a demo CD, their whole point was to encourage distribution
tambourine_man 6y ago
It’s hard to explain the excitement that those CDs packed to newer generations. The internet was 14.4 or 33.6kbps. My HD had 250MB. That meant that 650MB was just colossal. Thousands of exquisite icons, games, productivity, utilities, etc. It was vast. Besides, the drivers were 2X or 4X, so it really took you a while to browse the whole thing. Every reading noise would correspond to another portion of the screen being partially painted, something to look forward to.
- IggleSniggle 6y ago
  I swear I'm into computers because stuff took forever. Listening to that floppy drive, listening to that hard drive, watching that loading bar fill, swapping out the disk, anticipation and excitement growing ever greater. The result maybe wasn't that important, but the PROMISE of the result...that was special. Same thing hit again later with Napster and building up collections of albums. I didn't even care about the music, but those loading bars hit a primal spot of "acquire," "forbidden fruit," and "anticipatory glee."
- duopixel 6y ago
  MacFormat, a UK based magazine with a CD full of shareware and demos, would unexplainingly appear every month at a magazine shop in my hometown of Puebla, Mexico, at around ‘94-98. Without a doubt I would have a different career should I have not have access to this information. This is what I do today https://method.ac https://method.ac
  - tambourine_man 6y ago
    I wasn't born in Mexico, but I had a similar experience. There was a fancy magazine shop/bookstore/coffeeshop that sold MacWorld, MacFormat, MacUser, MacAddict, etc. And they were expensive. Everything seems so when you're 10, of course, but I imagine it truly was, if you account for currency exchange, shipping, etc. It sure consumed every christmas, birthday present and dime I could get my hands on at the time. I learned so much from those magazines: tips and tricks, reviews of products I could never afford, industry analysis. Being featured on a Q&A session was ecstatic. A few years ago I had coffee and a Cuban cigar at that store when I visited my parents. I heard it went out of business recently.

setgree 6y ago

Are all these games abandonware? Even if not, I can’t imagine anyone pursuing a legal case, but it would be the kind of thing I worried about.

dylan604 6y ago
It was stated that they originated from a MacWorld demo disc, so the companies were fine with giving the software away.
indrax 6y ago
Demo CD's would often feature shareware versions of software.
dimitar 6y ago
They are from a demo CD, their whole point was to encourage distribution

tambourine_man 6y ago

It’s hard to explain the excitement that those CDs packed to newer generations. The internet was 14.4 or 33.6kbps. My HD had 250MB. That meant that 650MB was just colossal. Thousands of exquisite icons, games, productivity, utilities, etc. It was vast. Besides, the drivers were 2X or 4X, so it really took you a while to browse the whole thing. Every reading noise would correspond to another portion of the screen being partially painted, something to look forward to.

IggleSniggle 6y ago
I swear I'm into computers because stuff took forever. Listening to that floppy drive, listening to that hard drive, watching that loading bar fill, swapping out the disk, anticipation and excitement growing ever greater. The result maybe wasn't that important, but the PROMISE of the result...that was special. Same thing hit again later with Napster and building up collections of albums. I didn't even care about the music, but those loading bars hit a primal spot of "acquire," "forbidden fruit," and "anticipatory glee."
duopixel 6y ago
MacFormat, a UK based magazine with a CD full of shareware and demos, would unexplainingly appear every month at a magazine shop in my hometown of Puebla, Mexico, at around ‘94-98. Without a doubt I would have a different career should I have not have access to this information. This is what I do today https://method.ac https://method.ac
- tambourine_man 6y ago
  I wasn't born in Mexico, but I had a similar experience. There was a fancy magazine shop/bookstore/coffeeshop that sold MacWorld, MacFormat, MacUser, MacAddict, etc. And they were expensive. Everything seems so when you're 10, of course, but I imagine it truly was, if you account for currency exchange, shipping, etc. It sure consumed every christmas, birthday present and dime I could get my hands on at the time. I learned so much from those magazines: tips and tricks, reviews of products I could never afford, industry analysis. Being featured on a Q&A session was ecstatic. A few years ago I had coffee and a Cuban cigar at that store when I visited my parents. I heard it went out of business recently.