Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoRevisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down15
arrow-up196arrow-down1external-linkRevisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designedarstechnica.comAgent_Karyo@piefed.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoShareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.
minus-squarekethali@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months 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-up3arrow-down1·2 months 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.
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months 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.
Shareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.
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.
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.