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All Demos City of Lost Children On a lonely oil rig, lost in the swirling fog of an unknown future, there is a sad man called Krank. Ageing prematurely because he can't dream, he kidnaps young children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts and get his youth back . . . Back on land in the city lives One, a mountain of man, innocent and brave. His mission is to search for his little brother, Denree, who has been kidnapped. By chance, One meets Miette, a young girl, leader of a wild bunch of orphans. Their tender friendship grows as the adventure takes its course. An adventure that will confront them with a multitude of bizarre characters . . . The game features more than fifty real-time animated 3D characters designed with Softimage modellings and motion capture animations with 100 rooms to explore. citychld\setup.exe n/a children http://www.psygnosis.com/ For DOS & Win95. Requires: 8MB of hard disk space. From Psygnosis. Psygnosis (415) 655-5683 n/a
All Demos Darklight Conflict "You have been genetically altered to infiltrate; to learn and understand; to become friends with the enemy; to turn on them and reveal their secrets. . . This is a SVGA 3D space combat with beautiful explosions and shrapnel. It offers nice features like Real-time lighting: lens-flare effect, multi-light sources (suns, weapons, navigation lights) and decent physics modeling. darklght\setup.exe n/a Drklight http://www.ea.com/eastudios/dark/ For DOS & Win95. Requires: P60 w/8MB of RAM and 50+MB of hard disk space. Demo offers Arcade play limited to 4 minutes, an Adventure limited to 2 missions and a multi-player game limited to 3 players and 10 minutes. From Electronic Arts/Origin. Electronic Arts/Origin (415) 572-2787 n/a
All Demos Deathmatch Maker The only Quake editor that is fully endorsed and backed by id Software. Deathmatch Maker uses a powerful interface that lets you drag and drop from a palette to put levels together. Included are textures and objects and the ability to add lights, creatures, power-ups and much more. The world is rendered in 3D while you work and lets you walk though your rooms so that you can see the changes immediately. dthmatch\setup.exe n/a dthmatch http://www.deathmatchmaker.com/ For DOS & Win95. Requires: 14MB of hard disk space. Demo does not allow you to save your levels or compile the visibility for your level. From Virtus Corporation. Virtus Corporation (919) 467-9700 n/a
All Demos Life in the Universe Join Stephen Hawking, author of the NY Times bestseller "A Brief History of Time," on an interactive multimedia adventure that explores "Life in the Universe". Accompanied by the "Phage," an animated intelligent agent who records your findings, you navigate through 3D virtual world terrains, discovering "info portals" that contain information of subjects such as the Big Bang, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, black holes and the origin of life. These complex physics and cosmological concepts are explained with gorgeous animations, graphics and plain language. n/a universe universe http://www.metatools.com/life/ The demo was not available so we included a video to give you a taste of what it is all about. From MetaTools. MetaTools (805) 566-6200 n/a
All Demos Meat Puppet With an enormous, smoking gun at her side, the statuesque raven-haired beauty in snug body-armor spins on her spiked heel and exits the burning, blood-spattered room, leaving echoes of her light, seductive giggle behind like a parting gift. Meet Lotos Abstraction û a beautiful woman with a magnificent gun. They have a working relationship. The rest is slightly more complicated. Meat Puppet brings players a uniquely sophisticated story with intriguing characters, visually stunning graphics and animation, and an expansive playing universe. It is a brand of third-person, isometric view action game with disturbing background sounds. Cold shower not included. meatpupp\setup.exe n/a meat http://www.playmatestoys.com/pages/pie/mpuppet/mpuppet.htm For Win95. Requires: P90 w/16MB of RAM and 24MB of hard disk space. From Playmates Interactive. Playmates Interactive (714) 428-2112 n/a
All Demos Mixman - George Clinton The King of Funk and 1997 Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame has given you his master tapes and only you can decide the fate of his P-Funk classics. Play the sixteen elements (i.e. bass, guitar, drum, vocals and more) in full studio quality sound right from your keyboard. It's simple to use, just choose a song, press play and watch out as the Plush Funk starts to groove. Using Lock, FX, Break, Record and Tempo, you've got total control over the mix. mixman\setup.exe n/a mixman http://www.mixman.com/ For Win95. Requires: 486 100MHz w/16MB of RAM and 16bit DirectX compatible Soundcard. From Playmates Interactive. Mixman Technologies (888) 464-9626 n/a
All Demos Moto Racer GP This is an adrenaline-fueled, head-rush motorcycle racing game that sets new standards. The retail version offers 8 tracks, up to 24 competitors and 16 bikes with 8 player internet support. motorcer\setup.exe n/a motorcer http://www.mracer.com For Win95. Requires: DirectX 3.0 (LOCATED IN THE WORKBENCH SECTION), Pentium 90MHz w/16MB of RAM. Demo offers one Grand Prix, one Motocross course, and two completely bikes. From BMG International. BMG International n/a
All Demos Need for Speed II Take some of the most exotic cars on the planet, a full 3D polygon rendered world, improved driving freedom with full 360 degree POV and six international tracks and you have yourself Need for Speed II. need4spd\setup.exe n/a need4spd http://www.nfs2.com/ For Win95. Requires: DirectX 3.0 (LOCATED IN THE WORKBENCH SECTION), Pentium 90MHz w/16MB of RAM and 10MB of hard disk space. From Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts (415) 572-2787 n/a
All Demos Net Medic Net.Medic is a browser companionùit works with your Internet browser to monitor, isolate, diagnose, and correct problems that affect your Internet experience. Now you can identify thesource of your network bottleneckùyour PC, modem, your Internet Service Provider (ISP), the Internet backbone, or remote Web site server. Net.Medic identifies problems in split seconds, offers you recommendations for solving them, and in certain cases, fixes them for you. netmedic\nm.exe n/a netmedic http://www.vitalsigns.com/ For Win95 or WinNT 4.0. Requires: Pentium w/16MB of RAM and 2MB of hard disk space. The free trial version includes basic features which you can as long as you like. The advanced features, included full version, are also in your trial for use for thirty days. From Vital Signs. Vital Signs (408) 980-8844 n/a
All Demos Nuts & Bolts Nuts & Bolts is a package of utilities that Prevent crashes, Optimize your hard drive, Eliminate conflicts, Repair damage, Secure files, Shred sensitive stuff, Alert you to problems, Rescue lost files, Diagnose your system, Increase speed, Fix glitches and Check program compatibility. This demo is of Bomb Shelter, which saves your data by letting you recover crashed or hung programs. It protects Windows from misbehaved programs, so that a crashing program won't crash your entire system. Bomb Shelter also lets you restart a crashed application (an application that has completely failed or stopped responding) in order to recover your data. nts&blts\setup.exe n/a nts&blts http://www.helixsoftware.com/nuts&bolts.html For Win95. Requires: 1MB of hard disk space. Bomb Shelter is a fully functional piece of the many apps that come with Nuts & Bolts. From Helix. Helix (718) 392-3735 n/a
All Demos Outlaws You are Ex-Marshal James Anderson on a revenge driven quest to find the outlaws who destroyed your family and home. This is a first-person shoot-em-up that takes place in the Wild West. Features include stylized characters with distinct personalities and weapons, 3D environments incorporating sloped surfaces and rooms-over-rooms and simulated ôreal-worldö physics models on both land and in the water. I(t even has translucent smoke and glass effects. outlaws\setup.exe n/a outlaws http://www.lucasarts.com/static/outlaws/outlawsframeset.htm For Win95. Requires: DirectX 3.0 (LOCATED IN THE WORKBENCH SECTION), Pentium 60MHz w/16MB of RAM and 21MB of hard disk space. The multiplayer update is included with this demo so that you can shoot-up your best friends. From Lucas Arts. Lucas Arts (415)507-4545 n/a
All Demos PageMaker 6.5 Adobe(R) PageMaker(R) 6.5 a cross-platform professional page layout software. It makes designing, producing, and delivering sophisticated publications easy because you can use it to combine text and graphics from a wide range of applications for both print and electronic delivery. It can import, display, and print black-and-white, grayscale, and color images and illustrations from most drawing, illustration, charting, and image-editing applications. pagemakr\setup.exe n/a pgemaker http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/pagemaker/main.html For Win95 and WinNT 4.0. Requires: 486 w/MB of 8RAM and 26MB of hard disk space. This is a fully functional evaluation demo with a 30 day time limit. From Adobe. Adobe (206) 628-4531 n/a
All Demos PhotoShop 3.0 Adobe Photoshop is a photo design and production tool used for digital image enhancement, retouching, and photo compositing. Key features include Actions, which supports task automation and batch processing, and Layers, special layers through which image adjustments can be applied without permanently the original image. The Navigator provides quick and precise access to magnified views of an image. photoshp\disk1\setup.exe n/a photoshp http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/photoshop/main.html For Win95 and WinNT 4.0. Requires: 486 w/MB of 8RAM and 26MB of hard disk space. This is a fully functional evaluation demo with a 30 day time limit. From Adobe. Adobe (206) 628-3956 n/a
All Demos Premiere 4.2 Adobe Premiere is powerful nonlinear video- and audio-editing software. It is a valuable tool for tasks such as online video editing or creating QuickTime or Video for Windows movies for presentations and CD-ROMs. ** An Adobe Acrobat Tutorial is included as well and can be found in the \Premiere directory on the bootDisc. Adobe Acrobat & Quicktime are located in the Util\Survival directory or in the Workbench section of the bootDisc interface. premiere\win16\disk1\setup.exe n/a premiere http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/premiere/main.html For Win95 and WinNT 3.51. Requires: 486 w/MB of 10RAM and 12MB of hard disk space. The tryout version comes complete with sample files, so you can experiment with new plug-in filters, motion controls and transitions. About the only thing you can't do is capture or save. From Adobe. Adobe (206) 628-3958 n/a
All Demos Ralley Championship Choose from an impressive line-up of the world's top, rally-bred cars, set your options and plunge into a 250-mile simulation of intense off-road action. You can customize your vehicle for maximum performance, and choose your weather and road conditions. Oversee your car's service and even set the width of the track. rllychmp\setup.exe n/a rally http://www1.viaweb.com/vie/ralcham.html For DOS. Requires: Pentium 90MHz w/16MB of RAM and 39MB of hard disk space. From Virgin. Virgin (714) 833-1999 n/a
All Demos Smart BookMarks 3.0 Smart Bookmarks 3.0 is a web utility for individual Internet-based information. With Smart Bookmarks, youÆll spend less time going back to sites looking for new or changed links, yet get all the information you need making your on-line time productive. New features of Smart Bookmarks 3.0 include: "WhoÆs On FIRST" Folderù Automatic, up-to-date content, agents, and bookmark catalogs, published directly from FirstFloor Software web server. To use this published content, simply drag and drop agents and bookmarks from the Who's On FIRST folder to the Personal folder. Support for both Navigator 3.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0. browsers Smart TickerÖ desktop ticker marquee and email notification options. smrtbkmk\setup.exe n/a smrtbkmk http://www.firstfloor.com/product.html For Win95. Requires: 486 w/8MB of RAM and 5MB of hard disk space. This is a 30-day evaluation version of Smart Bookmarks 3.0. From FirstFloor. FirstFloor (800) 639-6387 n/a
All Demos SpaceBuilder 2.1 Internet3D Space Builder [ISB] is a VRML2.0 authoring tool that provides the power of sophisticated 3D authoring combined with the ease of use of ParaGraph's Virtual Home Space Builder. With ISB, you can create complete 3D worlds and publish them on the Web for anyone to visit and experience using standard VRML2.0 browsers. ISB adds a new dimension of reality to your Web sites with a complete library of editable 3D shapes combined with interactive texture mapping that will bring your 3D spaces to life. spcebldr\setup.exe n/a spcebldr http://www1.paragraph.com/products/i3dfamily/spacebuilder/ For . Requires: 486 w/8MB of RAM and 6MB of hard disk space. From ParaGraph International. ParaGraph International (408) 364-7700 n/a
All Demos Test Drive Off-Road Welcome to Test Drive: Off-Road Demo, a wild ride in the world's most exotic 4x4s. Race the hottest production 4x4 vehicles head to head or in mixed-vehicle races. Vehicles include the Hummer, the Land Rover, Defender 90, the Jeep Wrangler or the Chevy K-1500 Z-71. It uses real-world physics to calculate the interaction between the vehicles and the terrain for real race simulation action. You can play solo, or against your friends. They even included the actual engine sounds of the vehicle you are driving. tdoffrd\setup.exe n/a off-road http://www.accolade.com/products/testdrive/index.htm For DOS and Win95. Requires: Pentium 90MHz w/16MB of RAM and 20MB of hard disk space. Demo contains two tracks featuring two different environments, each one a unique challenge. From Accolade. Accolade (408) 296-8400 n/a
All Demos Theme Hospital In Theme Hospital you get to build and run an efficient hospital from the ground up. You decide everything; where to place each room, how much to charge, what branches of medicine to concentrate on, through to who you want to hire and fire. As you handle the day-to-day influx of patients suffering everything from Broken Hearts to Third Degree Sideburns, you'll also have to be prepared for helicopter-loads of emergency cases. These will stretch your already busy resources to the limit but, if you can deal with them and keep the deaths to a minimum, you'll be awarded a hefty bonus. thmehosp\setup.exe n/a hospital http://www.bullfrog.co.uk/index~theme.html For DOS and Win95. Requires: 486 DX2 66MHz w/8MB of RAM and 40MB of hard disk space. You have to cure 20 patients in a year in this demo so look after your patients well and provide for their every need. From Bullfrog. Bullfrog (415) 572-2787 n/a
All Demos Web Compass WebCompass 2.0 accesses over 35 search resources. If you want to search more, you just add additional search resources. Once it finds a hit, it analyzes the entire document to create a comprehensive summary. It does this by noting how often keywords are used and analyzing the context in which the keywords are used. Hits are given a relevancy ranking between 1 and 100. The higher the number, the more relevant it is. WebCompass organizes search results into topic folders, and creates sub-topics. You can tell it to check for new information about topics on a regular basis. Updated information will automatically arrive on your PC while youÆre doing other work. webcmpss\setup.exe n/a webcmpss http://www.quarterdeck.com/qdeck/products/webcompass/ For Win95. Requires: 486 w/8MB of RAM and 5MB of hard disk space and Modem or network access to the Internet. This is a fully-functional trialware version. From Quarterdeck. Quarterdeck (573) 875-0530 n/a