"Quake is here! Well, almost. The Deathmatch preview version is available on the Internet anyway, and also a patch to let you see the monsters. How good is it? Well, the fact that we've been playing it day and night since it arrived ought to give you a clue. But to find out for yourself, run our EXCLUSIVE Windows preview now - for facts, screen shots, and movies.,"
100
+cd\qpreview
+win : qprev.exe
#\qpreview\qprev.exe
"*Mortimer,"
"Mortimer is a flying snail and you are Sally, his pilot. Seems straightforward enough to me. You'll need Windows 95 and an 8Mb Pentium if you want to run this EXCLUSIVE demo.,"
100
+call win95msg.bat
#\mortdemo\mortimer.exe
"*PGA European Tour,"
"Choose your club, address the ball, and show off your stupidest trousers - it's time to play Electronic Art's major new golfing sim, in our EXCLUSIVE demo.,"
100
+cd \golf
+demo
#\golf\demo.exe
"*Piranha,"
"EXCLUSIVE!! Blast beautifully-rendered asteroids in this game that just bears just a teensy tiny resemblance to Super Stardust. But then Super Stardust bears just a teensy tiny resemblance to Asteroids, so lets not carp.,"
010
+cd\piranha
+call install.bat
#\piranha\install.bat
"*Age of Rifles,"
"EXCLUSIVE!! Relive the glorious days when military slaughter was just that little bit more personal, with SSI's strategic wargame. You'll need 8Mb of RAM, and an SVGA quality graphics card.,"
010
+cd\age
+call install.exe
#\age\install.exe
"*Dungeon Keeper,"
"EXCLUSIVE!! Be the first to sneak a rolling peek at what looks like the most original game idea in a long while. It's a dungeon bash, but this time you play the master of the dungeon, doing everything in your power to turn those intrusive adventurers into kebab. Sort of like Theme Park, but with a body-count.,"
100
+cd\keeper
+call playme
#\keeper\playme.bat
"*Afterlife,"
"Afterlife brings whole new meaning to the idea of a God-game. It's your job to design heaven and hell, and to arrange the rewards and punishments of their long-term guests. You don't HAVE to be the head of the Roman Catholic church to enjoy this ingenious game, although it probably helps. What you DO need is Windows 95, however.,"
100
+call win95msg.bat
#\alfdemo\alfdemo.exe
"*Virtual Snooker,"
"A masterful PC of 3D virtual reality gaming from Interplay. The virtual pub in which the game takes place, the controls, and indeed the entire 3D engine bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Interplay's Virtual Pool, but that was a brilliant game too so we'll let it pass... ,"
001
\vsnooker\vsnooker.zip \vsnooker
"*Azrael's Tear,"
"Another of those games the marketing people call a 3D, first-person perspective experience, and you and I call A Bit Like Doom. Azrael's Tear, however, is much more of an RPG, with puzzles to solve and people to talk to. Luverly rendered graphics, too. Run this one directly from DOS for best results.,"
010
+cd\atdemo
+call install.bat
#\atdemo\install.bat
"*Terra Nova,"
"Created by those god-like beings Looking Glass Technologies, Terra Nova is a futuristic 3D aerial combat game, featuring some of the most realistic rolling landscape you've ever seen outside of Vistapro. Once you've unzipped the game, run Install.bat to configure sound. ,"
001
\tnova\tndemo.zip \tnova
"*Strife,"
"Oh lordy, another Doom clone. Don't be surprised if you feel a particularly strong sense of deja vu with this one, however, since it's written using Id's own Doom 3D engine. Damn good fun, all the same. ,"
001
\strife\strife10.zip \strife
"*Gearheads,"
"A game of battling wind-up toys, fighting it out on the kitchen floor. They don't come much weirder than this. Runs in Windows. ,"
010
+cd\gearhead
+win : setup.exe
#\gearhead\setup.exe
"*Silent Thunder 2,"
"If you have Windows 95 and a sickeningly fast PC, prepare to witness some of the coolest 3D graphics ever seen in a desktop window, with this tank-killer air combat game. ,"
010
+call win95msg.bat
#\silent\install.exe
"*World Rally Fever,"
"Brrrrmmmmmm!!! An addictive piece of arcade-style racing action, this. Shades of Super Karts, but way better graphics. Play it. Play it now. When it's unzipped, run LOADER.EXE to start.,"
001
\rally\rally.zip \rally
"END"
shareware:
"*Black Night,"
"Not to be confused with the popular single by Deep Purple of many years ago, Black Night is a top-notch flight-combat sim. Not so long ago a sim of this quality sold in the shops for megabucks. Now it's shareware and all yours."
001
\sharewar\bnight\bknight.zip \bknight
"*Funpack,"
"Introduced by Farnsworth Ferret, no less, the Funpack is a collection of entertaining, colourful, and lively games to entertain smaller PC users. And it's British too - hurrah!,"
010
+cd\sharewar\fffpack
+win : setup.exe
#\sharewar\fffpack\setup.exe
"*Full Motion,"
"What a smart idea! This screensaver allows you to play movie clips when your PC time's out. The possibilities are, as they say, endless....,"
010
+cd\sharewar\fullmotn
+win : setup.exe
#\sharewar\fullmotn\setup.exe
"*Integrity Master,"
"Take care of all sorts of little security hassles with this handy collection of anti-virus and hard drive integrity utilities. Windows based.,"
010
+cd\sharewar\i-mast
+win : install.exe
#\sharewar\i-mast\install.exe
"*Light Fight,"
"Billing itself as the Believer's Guide to Online Successful Spiritual Warfare, Lite Fight has its tongue firmly in its cheek, and other parts of its anatomy pointed squarely at the Internet religious holier-than-thous. At least, I hope it has. I'd hate to think this was for real...,"
010
+cd\sharewar\litefi
+call install.bat
#\sharewar\litefi\install.bat
"*Napoleon the Emperor,"
"Napoleon the Emperor is a shareware computer wargame of moderate complexity that simulates the battles that occurred during 1815, when the Emperor was fighting desperately to hold on to his title. Windows based.,"
010
+cd\sharewar\nteev
+win : install.exe
#\sharewar\nteev\install.exe
"*Patolli,"
"Patolli is ancient Aztech game, apparently. Personally I hadn't realised that Windows-based PCs had been around quite that long. Very nicely produced game, though.,"
100
+cd\sharewar\patolli
+win : patolli.exe
#\sharewar\patolli\patolli.exe
"END"
handson:
"*ARENA Design 2.5,"
"Arena Design is a poweful Windows-based 3D design and animation package. Versatile, powerful, and easy to use. ,"
010
+cd\arena
+win : install.exe
#\arena\install.exe
"*Fractal Design Painter 4.0,"
"Users of Fractal Painter 3.0 will need no introduction to this truly stonking computer art package. What the rest of you need to know is that Fractal Painter simulates natural brush styles, textures and effects. Paint with a watercolour style brush on a canvas style surface and it looks more like Cezanne than Cezanne ever did. Runs in Win 95 only.,"
010
+call win95msg.bat
#\painter\install.exe
"*RealiMation,"
"A toolkit for those wanting to create their own virtual reality, simulation and game applications, RealiMation is an exciting new Windows-based 3D design package. This demo consists of a fully working version of the Space Time Editor module, which will time-out after 45 days. Runs in Win95 only.,"
010
+call win95msg.bar
#\real\setup.exe
"*Imagine 3.0,"
"The full product, worth loads of dosh! This is an excellent DOS-based 3D graphics package. Be warned that some users have had trouble using Imagine 3.0 with newer mouse drivers. If you have an older mouse driver kicking around, this may be the time to blow the dust off it.,"
001
\im30\im30.zip \imagine3
"*TopDraw,"
"Top Draw can be used for making view graphs, illustrating stories, creating design diagrams, flow charts, organizational charts, floor plans, cards, newsletters, cartoons, desktop publishing, and more. How on Earth have you survived without it for so long? Windows based. ,"
010
+cd\topdr30
+win : install.exe
#\topdr30\install.exe
"END"
submit:
"*mC's tracks,"
"8 tracks by Mark Chater, in the Readers folder. Selecting this option will install MOD4WIN, enabling you to play them in a Windows environment. ,"
010
+cd\sharewar\mod4win
+win : install.exe
#\sharewar\mod4win\install.exe
"*Elson - rendered graphics,"
"Amazing rendered graphics, in JPG format, and some cool FLC animation files. You can view the JPGs with Paint Shop Pro or any pic viewer worth it's salt, and the FLCs with a flick viewer like Aaplay. ,"
001
\readers\elson\elson.zip \elson
"*Sommerv - graphics and tracks,"
"More Scream Tracker sound tracks, and some stunning rendered graphics GIFs here. Selecting this option will install MOD4WIN, enabling you to play the Mod files in a Windows environment.,"
010
+cd\sharewar\mod4win
+win : install.exe
#\sharewar\mod4win\install.exe
"END"
notgames:
"*WinCim 2.01,"
" Your faithful WIndows-based Compuserve signup and access software. Sign-on using Agreement Number: UKFUTURE, Serial Number: 999999 for a month's FREE membership.,"
010
+cd\wincim
+win : setup.exe
#\wincim\setup.exe
"*WorldsAway,"
"Have a good old natter on the Information Superhighway, using Compuserve's new net-chat software. You get to create your own character, and explore a 'virtual community' where you can meet other people with nothing better to do with their time. Windows based.,"
010
+cd\wrldsawy
+win : setup.exe
#\wrldsawy\setup.exe
"*Home Page Wizard,"
"Have you seen all those naff home pages on the Internet? 'My name is Ted and here's a picture of my granny' - you know the sort of thing. Well now, courtesy of Compuserve's Home Page Wizard, you have the chance to show the world how it should be done. Best of all, when you've finished Compuserve will publish your masterpiece on the Internet. Hurrah!,"
010
+cd\hpwiz
+win : setup.exe
#\hpwiz\setup.exe
"*Modified Interview,"
"Modified make the bonkers hi-octane amalgam of music and video that is 'frEQuency' - the demo that creates its own mixes. Now, in this equally cool and bonkers 'interview', Modified express in their own unique way the philosophy behind frEQuency. Has to be seen to be believed. Just click anywhere, as fast as you can! Runs in Windows.,"
