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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Shareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.

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[–] kethali@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago*

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.

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