Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 13 hours agoRevisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down12
arrow-up177arrow-down1external-linkRevisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designedarstechnica.comAgent_Karyo@piefed.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·12 hours agoShareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-28 hours agoDune 2 at least wasn’t shareware. Maybe had a demo though. There were a few discs that had shareware and playable demos. Doesn’t sound like what they had, though. Especially if it had episodes 2 and 3, etc.
minus-squarekethali@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 hours agoI had a bunch of those myself back then, dozens of great shareware games on each disc. Sure beat trying to download something on slow slow dialup.
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 hours agoAnd those games usually got really really hard beyond the first episode, so we (at least me) wouldn’t have gotten far in the full games anyways.
Shareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.
Dune 2 at least wasn’t shareware.
Maybe had a demo though. There were a few discs that had shareware and playable demos.
Doesn’t sound like what they had, though. Especially if it had episodes 2 and 3, etc.
I had a bunch of those myself back then, dozens of great shareware games on each disc. Sure beat trying to download something on slow slow dialup.
And those games usually got really really hard beyond the first episode, so we (at least me) wouldn’t have gotten far in the full games anyways.