=========================================================================== Review : Back to the roots! :) =========================================================================== Primary purpose : Historical reasons Single+Coop play / Deathmatch =========================================================================== Title : HERETIC - WIDE AREA BETA Filename : HERETIC1.WAD HERETIC.EXE etc. (Beta-shareware with three levels) Release date : Dec. 20 1994 Author : RAVEN/ID SOFTWARE Email Address : - Description : This is a wide area beta release of the [...] game HERETIC. The first three levels are included. Note that this is NOT a final release version, and may be prone to crashes or unexpected errors. Additional note : The system time has to be temporarily set to December 20, 1994, to play the game. Otherwise you'll get a (specious) "Corrupt WAD file" error. Thanks to mwmiller, who shared this information in the forums of www.johnromero.com . All installation files (found on an old level-cd: 'DOOM HEAVEN II') have the original timestamps, except for the FILE_ID.DIZ, but i will quote here an excerpt of a directory listing from cd-textfiles.com, that shows all the original timestamps, including that of the FILE_ID.DIZ: DEICE.EXE 20-Dec-1994 14:01 17k HT_BETA.1 20-Dec-1994 14:02 1.4M HT_BETA.2 20-Dec-1994 14:03 974k INSTALL.BAT 20-Dec-1994 14:06 1k HT_BETA.DAT 21-Dec-1994 08:00 1k FILE_ID.DIZ 21-Dec-1994 08:01 1k This listing was found at: http://cd.textfiles.com/gpack2/HERETIC/ =========================================================================== * What is included * New levels : 3 Sounds : Yes Music : Yes Graphics : Yes Dehacked/BEX Patch : No Demos : Yes * Play Information * Game : Heretic Map # : E1M1 E1M2 E1M3 Single Player : Designed for Cooperative 2-4 Player : Designed for Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Designed for Other game styles : No Difficulty Settings : Not implemented * Construction * Base : New from scratch * Where to get the file that this text file describes * The mirrors of the /idgames -ftp-archives: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/msdos/games/idgames/ http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/idgames/ http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames/ ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/ ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames/ http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/games/idgames/ ftp://ftp.mancubus.net/pub/idgames/ http://ftp.mancubus.net/pub/idgames/ http://youfailit.net/pub/idgames/ http://ftp.fdn.fr/games/idgames/ ftp://ftp.clinet.fi/pub/mirrors/archives.3dgamers.com/idgames/ ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/games/idgames/ ftp://ftp.netc.pt/pub/idgames/ http://ftp.netc.pt/pub/idgames/ http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/ftproot/pub/rec/games/idgames/ The upload-server of the /idgames-archives is: ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/ But please use the above listed mirrors for your downloads. =========================================================================== Submitted to the /idgames-ftp-archives by FunDuke --> funduke@hotmail.com The review at the beginning of this template has been written by FunDuke.