Ok, so the next year will be 1997.

I'd be highly interested in 10/2001 and 11/2001, could you please upload them when you're finished with '97? (unless the older stuff has higher priority, of course)

Ok, I'll finnish 1995 (the last 2 CDs are uploading right now).
Then I'll upload 1/97 (sierra special for sierrachest) and 3/97 (sega rally).
When these are uploaded, I'll upload the 4 CDs of 10/01 and 11/01.

EDIT:
The file index will come later, currently I'm too busy. But I'll upload isos non-stop.

Done:
-PcGames 01/97
-PcGames 03/97
-PcGames 10/01 A
-PcGames 10/01 B
-PcGames 11/01 A
-PcGames 11/01 B

10/01 and 11/01 are up.

After PcGames 1997, I'll upload all my PowerPlay CDs: (tomorrow?)
-10/96
-08/97
-11/99
Then I'll upload PcGames 1996 (expect it on Tuesday)

Done:
-PcGames 02/97
-PcGames 04/97
-PowerPlay 09/95
-PcGames 05/97
-PcGames 07/97
-PcGames 08/97
-PcGames 09/97
-PcGames 11/97
-PcGames 12/97
-PowerPlay 02/95 (oops, the archive is named correctly, but the iso name says 96)

Cool collection of discs you got there; the cover art is pretty neat to look at.

Do you have any GlobalStar Software demo cd's? more specificly this one? http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=23492
As a kid i used to own Vol2 and 4.

These are only PcGames
That drawing is my watermark :3 (you can hardly fake that paper from out local bookstore and my drawing )
Here are some more CDs that I will upload:
(I skipped most of the CDs that only had full versions)


















I don't think so, but I've got a few other shareware CDs. What demo are you looking for?

The demo is about...well it starts, cam in sky, shows a moon and it has a face, then cams down to a house going inside where its very dark, and then these 2 vegetables that talk weird appear, and there's a mean tomatoe or something with an eyepatch. The two vegetables get lost at some point because the girl veggie gets kidnap. That's all i can recall really.

After 9 almost 10 years of searching for this game.....I now realise its on the front cover of the 100 games arcade... How could i have been so blind?! Although only demo is on the web.
Thanks anyways.

p.s if you check my last link, its space kids.

Hmm... Does anything contain a game called Aro II?
It's a platformer that I remember fondly from when I was around five or six.

Seems like there is only Aro, but no second installment:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/aro
(I actually remember a dos game named "Aro & Elmi", but I guess it's not related )

I'll see if I can find something

I think Aro got cancelled at some point or changed names because Zipman is the same game.
http://dosgamer.com/zipman-iii/
http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/431/Aro.html
and yes Aro and Elmi is related. My bad.

--EDIT--
I think it's the other way around, Zipman was the codename of the Demo, Aro.
Such as Galaxi was demo Codename of Galaxy.

I'm still uploading stuff, even though a guy has 4 hostages and shoots at the police in my village only 900 meters away from my house! (I feel slightly unsafe) He finally gave up

1997 is complete.

Aro II is a real game, I might be able to dig up the demo.
It's for windows and I'm not sure whether it's 16-bit or 32-bit.

I just remember a very good platformer, it had multiplayer too!

As you can see, 1997 is up.
I'll now upload some stuff from In'side Multimedia (First CD mag in Germany) (they are a little bit tricky if you want to view their videos an such stuff )

Done:
-In'side Multimedia
1994:
05, 06, 07, 10, 11
1995:
01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10, 11, 12
1996:
06, 07, 09, 10
11(<- important, has websites that were not saved on archive.org)

Done:
PcGames
1996
-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,10 Bonus,11,12
PowerPlay:
-10/96
-08/97
-11/99

As you can see 1995 - 1997 of PcGames are now up, also In'side Multimedia and PowerPlay are done.

The next CDs will be
-PcPro PDF Archive 1997 <-12 issues
-PC Magazin PDF Archive 1999 & 2000 <- 24 issues
-Computer Bild PDF Archives 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 <-7x26 issues
-PcSpiel:
1995:
08, 09, 10, 11, 12
1996:
02, 03, 05, 09
Misc:
-WoW Press Kit
-Virgin Interactive Demo CD
-Acclaim ECTS 1999 Press Kit
-Rage ECTS 1999 Press Kit
-Bravo Hits 37 Game Edition ^_^

Done:
Misc:
-Warcraft 3 Press Kit

Do you think you could upload the 2000 PC Play demo CDs, along with the 1999 Demo CDs with Re-Volt? Also... that's alot of demo CDs!!

I'll see what I can upload today

I managed to get a Diablo 2 presskit. It will arrive this week.

EDIT:
mep, upload crashed tonight. Gotta upload next night.

Done:
Pc Player
1995:
-06, 08
1999:
-06A, 06B
2000:
-02A, 02B

Computer Bild Heft Archive:
2000, 2001
PcPro Heft Archiv:
1997
Pc Magazin Heft Archive
1999, 2000

I ADDED A DIABLO II PRESS KIT

http://zippyshare.com/Hallfiry/z9wjnaf5/dir.html



Edit:
I'm so pirate badass:
I added Computer Bild Spiele 04/2004

EDIT 2:
uploaded
PcPlayer
2000
-04A
-04B
-05A
-05B

EDIT 3:
uploaded
PcPlayer
2000
-06B
-08A
-11A
-11B
-12A
-12B
-13B
-13A
2001:
-01A
-01B
-02A
-02B
-03B
-04A
-04B
-05A
-05B
-06A
-06B (Last issue published)

-WoW Press Kit
-Bravo Hits 37 Game Edition
-PcPower 04/96
-PcPower 12/96
-Acclaim ECTS 1999 Press Kit
-Virgin Interactive Demo CD 1997
-CB Heft Archive 2002
-CB Heft Archive 2003
-CB Heft Archive 2004
-Rage ECTS 1999 press kit
-PcPower 11/95

For those who don't want to search for the link the the thread:

http://zippyshare.com/Hallfiry


A little statistic, to show progress and probably bump the thread, because it's obviously still alive.
CDs currently up: 107 within 22 days.
For comparison:
abandonware-magazines has 350 in 10 years
cd.textfiles has about 650 in 9 years
shoonay.thecompany.pl/Biblioteka has ~220 in 1.5 years (ignoring floppies)

CDs that I still have to upload (ignoring the ones from the post above):
//Ignoring 2002 and later

Gamestar (35CDs+3DVDs):
1998: 10, 10Bonus
1999: 03, 03Bonus, 06, 07, 09
2000: 01, 01Bonus, 03, 04, 09Demo, 10Demo, 10Video, 11Demo, 11Video, 12Video
2001: 02Video, 03Demo, 03, 04Video, 04Demo, 05, 05Video, 06Video, 06Demo, 07Video, 07Demo, 08, 08Video, 09, 09Video, 10DVD, 11DVD, 12DVD

PcGames (34CDs+4DVDs):
1998: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10, 11
1999: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 01Bonus, 04Bonus, 05Bonus, 06Bonus, 07Bonus, 09Bonus, 11Bonus, 12Bonus
2000: 01, 02, 11DVD, 12Video, 07Tricks
2001: 02DVD, 03DVD, 04DVD, 05Video, 09Video, 09Demo

PcJoker (21CDs):
1997: 12
1999:
-CD1: 06
-CD2: 04, 07, 09, 10, 11, 12
2000:
-CD1: 05
-CD2: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12

PcAction (28CDs+2DVDs):
1997: 07, 12
1998: 02, 03, 08
1999: 01Bonus, 03, 03Bonus, 05, 05Bonus, 06, 06Bonus, 08, 08Bonus
2000: 02, 04, 07, 09, 11, 12
2001: 01DVD, 02, 04DVD, 05/1, 05/2, 06/1, 06/2, 08/2, 10/1, 10/2

---

Total: 118CDs and 11 DVDs todo. (at least)
There are also ~50 magazine CDs from many different magazines, that I didn't sort for counting.

Nice collection and find, I guess these collections are very rare to find these days.

Great stuff, never seen the D2 press kit before!

All the CDs from 96, 95 and earlier are highly interesting...there should be a lot of stuff on there that can't be found on the web (anymore).

Keep it up

PcSpiel
1995:
-08
-09
-10
-11
-12
1996:
-02
-03
-05
-09
are up.

=>We've reached 120 CDs in 23 days. That's more than 5CDs per day!

I also uploaded the CD Covers of all PcPlayer CDs (they can be found in the folders of the CDs).

Up:
PcAction 1997 (2CDs)
PcAction 1998 (3CDs)
GameStar 1998 (2CD)
GameStar 1999 (5CDs)

EDIT:
Slightly off-topic, but I want to share it. Here is a radio interview with Bill Roper from December 31, 1995.

I haven't checked these forums for a while, and just noticed this thread. Hallfiry, it's incredibly awesome! ^_^

It's a lot of fun to rip all these CDs and upload them (and bother my online games loving brother that way).

By the way: if anybody has old magazine CDs that s/he doesn't need anymore, I'd even pay for them. Just write a PM or a mail to hallfiry@gmx.de.

I will try to upload the 1998 and 1999 GameStar CDs this night and add them to the corresponding folders.
I can't upload on Monday and Tuesday, because I'll not be at home at all.

If somebody wants me to upload a special CD or DVD (or a complete year of a magazine) as soon as possible, s/he can post here and I'll see what I can do.
The special DVDs are already enlisted as TODO in the Misc folder. (Diablo 2 DVD, Warcraft 3 Promo DVD, E3 2001 DVD).

Protip:
For people who live in Germany and want to help expanding the collection:
Go to your local Bauhof (=Recycling Yard) and ask where to put old CDs. Ask if you may take magazine CDs from there and then look through the piles (or how ever they store the CDs) and collect everything you can.
This really works. As you can see from the first post, I got about 60 PcGames CDs from 1995 till 1999 there on only 1 day.

BTW, the PC Player CD # 8/95 says it's got a playable version of Stonekeep. Is that so? I don't think there's a playable demo of that game on the net anywhere, only a non-interactive slideshow.