Old CD Magazines / Magazine CDs for download

swaaye · Post by **swaaye** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:03 pm

I have some old CD magazines that I thought you guys might enjoy. They are all from 1994-6. Some of them will work in XP but no promises :) The downloads are 7zipped ISOs (200-350 MB). If anyone has more of these, let me know!!!

Identical files available from 2 different sources.

PC Magazine

Fall 1995
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

CD-ROM Today
For PC & Mac. They still work on XP but are originally for Win 3.x and Mac OS 7.x (i guess)

theDISC! 2 (7-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

PC Stuff

Multimedia stuff
(Medieval France, SoundFX Manager for Windows, Endangered Species, etc)
Edutainment demos
(Living Books, Ruff's Bone, Tuneland, Forever Growing Garden, Gus Goes to Cybertown)
Game demos
(Myst, Theme Park, Spear of Destiny, Inferno)
Compendium of Shareware Games
('The Shareware Ethic', Catacomb Abyss, Aliens, Ancients I: Death Watch, BipBopII, Brix, Blake Stone, Empire II for Windows, Gold Monkey, Ishido, Kosynka II, Lost in the Labyrinth, Pork, Rune-Mania, Solar Winds, Stellar Defense II, T-zero, Vampyr, Zanti)
special Trek section
(WinTrek, Star Trek clock, Star Trek Timeline, ST movie snippet, The Final Frontier-artwork)
Shareware apps
(Wide Range of ASP shareware, Editeur 13, 'Hi, Finance!', Household Register, Quick Read, Resume Master, SmartFont, TreeChart, Sunshine, Vision Edit, Financial Analysis for Windows)
Digital novel library (quite a few) and "internet information"

theDISC! 3 (9-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

PC Stuff

Games previews
(Feist on Krondor, Sam & Max, SimCity CD, FPS: Baseball, Corridor 7, Pinball Fantasies)
Multimedia
(Q/Media 2.0, Leonard the Inventor, Monty Python Flying Circus, Wired For Sound, MediaPedia Video Clips, Blue Ribbon Photos, Fantazia Fonts & More, Paint Shop Pro)
Lots of ancient "info about the Internet" and some app tours
Edutainment demos
(Adventures with OSLO, Wiggins in Storyland, Grammar Expert, American History, Win SignMaster, Tangaroos,...)
Digital Bookshelf (dozen or so childrens' classics)

theDISC! 6 (12-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

theDISC! 12 (6-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

(run Install in Magazine dir)

PCGamer

Disc 1 (12-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2
Youtube Preview

Disc 7 (6-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

Disc 8 (7-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

Disc 11 (10-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

Disc 2.8 (9-96)
Rapidshare Megaupload
Youtube Preview

This one has the cool Coconut Monkey adventure game as the interface. :)

Computer Shopper
(all thanks to Davros)

Issue 96, Feb 1996
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

business: quark express, serif type plus, serif photo plus
internet: latest web software
multimedia: rolling stones voodoo lounge, redshift 2
games: destruction derby, nhl ice hockey 96, shoppers roll of honour, descent, magic carpet 2, us navy fighters
business: visio 3, office 95, superoffice
leisure: monty python, battle beast, world war 2

Issue 98, April 96
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3
if shopper.exe crashes in xp run browser.exe

command and conquer, pga golf 96, fanasy general, praire dog pro, renegade 2, time gate, rayman
comptons encyclopedia and groliers, word viewer, visual basic 4, internet explorer
40 essential programs and utilities

Feb 97
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3

Power Rangers, SimCity Network, Sonic the Hedgehog
Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia, Simpson's Screen Saver, Simpson's Cartoon Studio, Pink Panther's Passport to Peril
Business Apps
Editorials

Others
(thanks to Davros)
PC Direct Aug 95
Rapidshare / Megaupload

Paradox 5 for Windows evaluation kit, OfficeTalk, Take Your Best Shot, Visual CADD, WinCIM v1.4 and now NetLauncher, NavCIS TE 1.6, monthly screensaver

PC Direct Dec 95
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3

winforcast, plugin, multifax, worms, telepower

PCPro Aug 97
Megaupload

Primarily Internet apps. Lots and lots of them from the time.

PCW Interactive Oct 95
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload

charm2, pc tax, recorder, mahjong, poke_it poker, postcode, photovista, mscdex updater of 2.22 to 2.23, space quest, renunion, flagtower, kingdom
gallery 60 hi res photos
90mb of mac software

PCW Interactive Jul 97
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload

Goosebumps, interstate 76, MDK, yoda stories
an introduction programming to java applets, headliner, sound forge 4.0, netobjects fusion

PC Zone
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3

Command & Conquer, rebel assault 2, warcraft 2, warcraft 2 - level editor, descent 2, earthworm jim 1 + 2, battle arena toshinden, pga golf 96, fantasy general, virtual carts, silent thunder, renegade 2, speed haste, culky
Bullfrog Christmas Demo 1995, syndicate wars, theme hospital, dungeon keeper, high octane, MAGIC CARPET 2 - NETHERWORLDS
Some apps, etc

Gamers Collection 1998 (ZD)
Megaupload DL

Quake 2, Forsaken, Heavy Gear, Jedi Knight MotS, Battlezone, Wing Commander Prophecy, F16 Fighting Falcon, Precision CART Racing, Ultim@te Race Pro, Close Combat 2,
Tomb Raider 2, Screamer Rally, G Police, Hexen II, Dungeon Keeper, Dark Colony, Worms 2, Wipeout 2097, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Panzer General 2

Extras

TIE Fighter magazine preview demo w/ Dodge Neon ad
Rapidshare DL
Youtube Preview

♦

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:02 pm

Thanks for sharing this, swaaye, it's appreciated.

Maybe I will sticky this topic, it's worth it.
[Edit]
Hmmmm, forget that 'maybe', sticky it will be for a long while ......

swaaye · Post by **swaaye** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:48 pm

Thanks for the sticky. I hope people have fun with these bits of history.

Post by **CPT Worm** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:44 pm

I downloaded the one that is Mac compatible...let's see if I can get Classic working on here again.

swaaye · Post by **swaaye** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:55 pm

2LT Worm wrote:I downloaded the one that is Mac compatible...let's see if I can get Classic working on here again.

btw, all of the CDROM Today CDs are for both Mac and PC.

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:17 pm

Extra one:

MrFlibble wrote:Litude at RGB Classic Games Forum has been very kind to upload the image of PC Gamer Volume 4 Number 1 (January 1997) CD, which contains The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall Betony demo. You can get it here. Kudos to Litude for sharing that!

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sun May 06, 2012 12:34 pm

Hallfiry at the BetaArchive Forums is sharing his huge PC Games coverdisk collection:
http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewto ... 14&t=24418

He's in the process of uploading the CDs, which can be found here:
http://zippyshare.com/Hallfiry/fqxoefef/dir.html

Post by **dosraider** » Mon May 07, 2012 12:44 am

This is .... waw ... just WAW !!!!!

THX for letting us know MrFlibble

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon May 07, 2012 7:14 am

dosraider wrote:THX for letting us know MrFlibble

Heh, you're welcome

That collection is really amazing.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sat May 19, 2012 10:10 am

Hallfiry has also compiled an index of his CDs' contents, which is downloadable here. The index will be updated to include more info eventually.

Post by **dosraider** » Sun May 20, 2012 12:59 am

Hallfiry wrote: Magazine Cover Disk Collection:

http://zippyshare.com/Hallfiry

(Currently 189 CDs)

...... 189 CDs? Busy person.

BTW, to view the catalog you'll need "Where is it? lite"
http://www.whereisit-soft.com/index.htm ... oad.html&1
Lite version allows to view *.CTF catalogs.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Thu May 24, 2012 7:47 am

Updated the link in my post above to point to the catalog list of Hallfiry's CD archive. (He's also added more stuff in the meantime too

)

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:05 pm

Hallfiry has started up a website specifically for magazine cover CDs:
http://kultcds.com/

Post by **dosraider** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:03 pm

There has been a lot of work put in that one !!!!
Impressive.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:29 am

dosraider wrote:There has been a lot of work put in that one !!!!
Impressive.

It sure has!

Post by **MrFlibble** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:59 am

dosraider wrote:...... 189 CDs? Busy person.

In the meantime, Hallfiry's collection has grown to 1018 CDs. Here's the index of 'em all:
http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/2486707/file.html

Th3Mafia · Post by **Th3Mafia** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:36 am

swaaye wrote: PC Magazine

Fall 1995
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

Anyone have these? or around this time?

Post by **dosraider** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:20 am

swaaye is an active mod @ http://www.vogons.org/index.php
You could ask him there eventually by PM (you'll need to register)
There was somewhere a topic about the same @Vogons but can't find it now .....

sonyvx · Post by **sonyvx** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 1:36 am

swaaye wrote:I have some old CD magazines that I thought you guys might enjoy. They are all from 1994-6. Some of them will work in XP but no promises The downloads are 7zipped ISOs (200-350 MB). If anyone has more of these, let me know!!!

Identical files available from 2 different sources.

PC Magazine

Fall 1995
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

CD-ROM Today
For PC & Mac. They still work on XP but are originally for Win 3.x and Mac OS 7.x (i guess)

theDISC! 2 (7-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

PC Stuff
Multimedia stuff
(Medieval France, SoundFX Manager for Windows, Endangered Species, etc)

Edutainment demos
(Living Books, Ruff's Bone, Tuneland, Forever Growing Garden, Gus Goes to Cybertown)

Game demos
(Myst, Theme Park, Spear of Destiny, Inferno)

Compendium of Shareware Games
('The Shareware Ethic', Catacomb Abyss, Aliens, Ancients I: Death Watch, BipBopII, Brix, Blake airport car pick up Stone, Empire II for Windows, Gold Monkey, Ishido, Kosynka II, Lost in the Labyrinth, Pork, Rune-Mania, Solar Winds, Stellar Defense II, T-zero, Vampyr, Zanti)

special Trek section
(WinTrek, Star Trek clock, Star Trek Timeline, ST movie snippet, The Final Frontier-artwork)

Shareware apps
(Wide Range of ASP shareware, Editeur 13, 'Hi, Finance!', Household Register, Quick Read, Resume Master, SmartFont, TreeChart, Sunshine, Vision Edit, Financial Analysis for Windows)

Digital novel library (quite a few) and "internet information"
theDISC! 3 (9-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

PC Stuff
Games previews
(Feist on Krondor, Sam & Max, SimCity CD, FPS: Baseball, Corridor 7, Pinball Fantasies)

Multimedia
(Q/Media 2.0, Leonard the Inventor, Monty Python Flying Circus, Wired For Sound, MediaPedia Video Clips, Blue Ribbon Photos, Fantazia Fonts & More, Paint Shop Pro)

Lots of ancient "info about the Internet" and some app tours

Edutainment demos
(Adventures with OSLO, Wiggins in Storyland, Grammar Expert, American History, Win SignMaster, Tangaroos,...)

Digital Bookshelf (dozen or so childrens' classics)
theDISC! 6 (12-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

theDISC! 12 (6-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

(run Install in Magazine dir)

PCGamer

Disc 1 (12-94)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2
Youtube Preview

Disc 7 (6-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

Disc 8 (7-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

Disc 11 (10-95)
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2

Disc 2.8 (9-96)
Rapidshare Megaupload
Youtube Preview

This one has the cool Coconut Monkey adventure game as the interface.

Computer Shopper
(all thanks to Davros)

Issue 96, Feb 1996
Rapidshare P1 P2 / Megaupload P1 P2
business: quark express, serif type plus, serif photo plus

internet: latest web software

multimedia: rolling stones voodoo lounge, redshift 2

games: destruction derby, nhl ice hockey 96, shoppers roll of honour, descent, magic carpet 2, us navy fighters

business: visio 3, office 95, superoffice

leisure: monty python, battle beast, world war 2
Issue 98, April 96
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3
if shopper.exe crashes in xp run browser.exe
command and conquer, pga golf 96, fanasy general, praire dog pro, renegade 2, time gate, rayman

comptons encyclopedia and groliers, word viewer, visual basic 4, internet explorer

40 essential programs and utilities
Feb 97
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3
Power Rangers, SimCity Network, Sonic the Hedgehog

Hutchinson Multimedia Encyclopedia, Simpson's Screen Saver, Simpson's Cartoon Studio, Pink Panther's Passport to Peril

Business Apps

Editorials
Others
(thanks to Davros)
PC Direct Aug 95
Rapidshare / Megaupload
Paradox 5 for Windows evaluation kit, OfficeTalk, Take Your Best Shot, Visual CADD, WinCIM v1.4 and now NetLauncher, NavCIS TE 1.6, monthly screensaver

PC Direct Dec 95
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3
winforcast, plugin, multifax, worms, telepower
PCPro Aug 97
Megaupload
Primarily Internet apps. Lots and lots of them from the time.
PCW Interactive Oct 95
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload
charm2, pc tax, recorder, mahjong, poke_it poker, postcode, photovista, mscdex updater of 2.22 to 2.23, space quest, renunion, flagtower, kingdom

gallery 60 hi res photos

90mb of mac software
PCW Interactive Jul 97
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload
Goosebumps, interstate 76, MDK, yoda stories

an introduction programming to java applets, headliner, sound forge 4.0, netobjects fusion
PC Zone
Rapidshare P1 P2 P3 / Megaupload P1 P2 P3
Command & Conquer, rebel assault 2, warcraft 2, warcraft 2 - level editor, descent 2, earthworm jim 1 + 2, battle arena toshinden, pga golf 96, fantasy general, virtual carts, silent thunder, renegade 2, speed haste, culky

Bullfrog Christmas Demo 1995, syndicate wars, theme hospital, dungeon keeper, high octane, MAGIC CARPET 2 - NETHERWORLDS

Some apps, etc
Gamers Collection 1998 (ZD)
Megaupload DL
Quake 2, Forsaken, Heavy Gear, Jedi Knight MotS, Battlezone, Wing Commander Prophecy, F16 Fighting Falcon, Precision CART Racing, Ultim@te Race Pro, Close Combat 2,

Tomb Raider 2, Screamer Rally, G Police, Hexen II, Dungeon Keeper, Dark Colony, Worms 2, Wipeout 2097, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Panzer General 2
Extras

TIE Fighter magazine preview demo w/ Dodge Neon ad
Rapidshare DL
Youtube Preview
♦

Hey, you said these work on XP version.But i used Windown 7 can i these game on my computer?

Aldeb · Post by **Aldeb** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:58 am

There's a large collection of PC Zone pdf magazines and CDs on https://archive.org (mostly issues 50-100). You can also find PC Gamer CDs up there as well

@sonyvx install them and see for yourself.

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