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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 25 points 10 months ago

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

[-] kethali@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 10 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.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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