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Re: Marathon 2 Demo?
Posted By: GodotDate: 1/10/12 10:02 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Marathon 2 Demo? (Godot)

: Yeah I should have it in the Story page archive. What else is a 7GB warehouse
: of rare Marathon oddities good for?

: According to Bungie's 2nd web page the M2 demo was released in 3 varieties:
: Sixteen-bit demo (thousands of colors) with cool music - 16 megabytes - 4
: hrs 30 minutes on a 14.4 modem.
: Eight-bit demo (hundreds of colors) with the same cool music -12 megabytes -
: 3 hrs 30 minutes on a 14.4 modem.
: Eight-bit demo (hundreds of colors) without the terribly cool music. A
: lightweight version. 8 megabytes - 2 hrs and 15 minutes on a 1 4.4 modem.

: It took me the best part of 12 hours to snag the 16 bit one when it was first
: released. Of course, the whole world and their Mom were trying to
: downloaded it off Art & Science's crappy web server at the same time.

: I am trying to locate the original sea.hqx files but this is providing
: difficult. I fear someone has moved them.

: I'll let you know how I get on.

Hmmm.... Story page spiders hooked this one.

http://archive.info-mac.org/game/com/marathon2-demo.hqx

It's the 16-bit demo version and the last modified dates are 9 Oct 1995 so it's an original. :)

Cheers
Hamish

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