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    Best posts made by lew

    • RE: Announcing community patch 1.5 - godsend : ]

      Woah, this is amazing. Huge thanks both to the Night Dive Studios and everyone from the community involved. :D

      posted in Downloads
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    • Demo versions (contains early / beta stuff)

      Soo as I metioned before thanks to Moritz from Kult Cover Disks now we againg have an access to the demo versions of the game. :)

      Machines_1999-01-14.zip
      Most common and earliest known version of the demo.

      Machines_1999-02-19.zip
      Rarest version of the demo. Featured on the (Itaian) PC Gamer CD #041 B.

      Machines_1999-02-23.zip.001
      Machines_1999-02-23.zip.002
      Largest demo. Featured on the PC Games 05/99, PC Player 06/99 B and GameStar 06/99.

      PS. If you have problems with the installer try using Uniextract:
      Old version 1.6.1
      New version 2.0

      posted in Downloads download
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    • RE: Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions

      Another update.

      I asked Moritz, the administrator of the Kult Cover Disks and he not only answered, but to my amazment - attached not one but three (!) versions of the demo! :D

      "I happen to have a few copies of PC Games 05/99 on my shelf. I quickly checked and found that is particular demo is also featured on PC Player 06/99 B and GameStar 06/99 Bonus CD. Its cab file is dated to 1999-02-23. A more common demo dated to 1999-01-14 can be found on the following CDs:
      PC Fun CD 49_2
      PC Action 04/99
      CDA (35) 04/99
      Gambler (28) 04/99A
      Generation 4 CD 121
      Generation 4 CD 139_1
      The Games Machine #060
      Reset #24 04/99
      Excalibur 69
      GameStar CZ 04/99 CD1
      Level 03/99
      Online Today 07/99
      Computer Games Strategy Plus #102

      Additionally, there's a very rare version from 1999-02-19 that can be found on PC Gamer (Italian) CD #041 B.

      Moritz"

      For download go to Demo versions (contains early / beta stuff) topic.

      :D

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions

      A quick update.

      The good news is I haven't forgot about this thing. ;)
      The bad news is - I haven't found (yed) the disc I was talking about.

      Buuut, I stumbled upon other disc from the same issue of this gaming "magaine":
      wfw_cds.jpg
      I think (and hope!) that the disc with the demo is still somewhere at my parent's house. I'm gonna keep looking. :)

      According to the PCGames website Machines demo was present on the disc of the 05/1999 issue:
      http://www.pcgamesdatabase.de/pcgames.php?mag=pcgames&vol=05/1999#pcgames

      http://www.kultcds.com/index.php?id=pcgames&lang=en
      PCG0599.jpg

      posted in General Discussion
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    Latest posts made by lew

    • RE: Announcing community patch 1.5 - godsend : ]

      Woah, this is amazing. Huge thanks both to the Night Dive Studios and everyone from the community involved. :D

      posted in Downloads
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      lew
    • RE: Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions

      @Pisarz any luck? :)

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions

      @M123 They are but you can always use UniExtract unpack the archives without using the installer. :)
      https://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract (older version - 1.6.1) or https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2 (new version 2.0)

      posted in General Discussion
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    • Demo versions (contains early / beta stuff)

      Soo as I metioned before thanks to Moritz from Kult Cover Disks now we againg have an access to the demo versions of the game. :)

      Machines_1999-01-14.zip
      Most common and earliest known version of the demo.

      Machines_1999-02-19.zip
      Rarest version of the demo. Featured on the (Itaian) PC Gamer CD #041 B.

      Machines_1999-02-23.zip.001
      Machines_1999-02-23.zip.002
      Largest demo. Featured on the PC Games 05/99, PC Player 06/99 B and GameStar 06/99.

      PS. If you have problems with the installer try using Uniextract:
      Old version 1.6.1
      New version 2.0

      posted in Downloads download
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      lew
    • RE: Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions

      Another update.

      I asked Moritz, the administrator of the Kult Cover Disks and he not only answered, but to my amazment - attached not one but three (!) versions of the demo! :D

      "I happen to have a few copies of PC Games 05/99 on my shelf. I quickly checked and found that is particular demo is also featured on PC Player 06/99 B and GameStar 06/99 Bonus CD. Its cab file is dated to 1999-02-23. A more common demo dated to 1999-01-14 can be found on the following CDs:
      PC Fun CD 49_2
      PC Action 04/99
      CDA (35) 04/99
      Gambler (28) 04/99A
      Generation 4 CD 121
      Generation 4 CD 139_1
      The Games Machine #060
      Reset #24 04/99
      Excalibur 69
      GameStar CZ 04/99 CD1
      Level 03/99
      Online Today 07/99
      Computer Games Strategy Plus #102

      Additionally, there's a very rare version from 1999-02-19 that can be found on PC Gamer (Italian) CD #041 B.

      Moritz"

      For download go to Demo versions (contains early / beta stuff) topic.

      :D

      posted in General Discussion
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      lew
    • RE: Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions

      A quick update.

      The good news is I haven't forgot about this thing. ;)
      The bad news is - I haven't found (yed) the disc I was talking about.

      Buuut, I stumbled upon other disc from the same issue of this gaming "magaine":
      wfw_cds.jpg
      I think (and hope!) that the disc with the demo is still somewhere at my parent's house. I'm gonna keep looking. :)

      According to the PCGames website Machines demo was present on the disc of the 05/1999 issue:
      http://www.pcgamesdatabase.de/pcgames.php?mag=pcgames&vol=05/1999#pcgames

      http://www.kultcds.com/index.php?id=pcgames&lang=en
      PCG0599.jpg

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions

      Hi,

      I came here looking for a game from my childhood

      I believe that:
      a) It was an early demo I was playing as a child
      b) I still have that disc at my parent's house

      I'm not really sure why the f- it was even a thing but I came into possession of it sometime around 2003 by buing a brand-new copy of a niche Polish gaming magazine, or so I thought...

      After I removed the foil I noticed some things:

      1. The thick "magazine" was two-pages long with a cardboard inside
      2. Inside of the cardboard there were 8 (!) CDs
      3. All of them were from some german gaming magazine dated back to '97-'99
      4. None of them, including those metioned on the cover were full versions

      Other than the Machines i remember playing Half Life 1 (also a demo of a beta version, I think).

      I'm worried that ~20-year old disc can be hard if not impossible to read but even if so - I'm gonna keep you updated.
      And of course I won't be able to - I can send it by post to anyone willing to perform data recovery on their own.

      EDIT: I've just found the post Pisarz was talking about:
      https://www.gry-online.pl/S043.asp?ID=11665448
      Yeah, it is the same demo, the person who wrote it also had it from this shady "gaming magazine". :'D

      BTW. I think this topic should be renamed to "Early Alpha/Beta/demo versions" ^^

      posted in General Discussion
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      lew