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There is also an apparently earlier demo which can be found here: The catalogue has several instance of both the small and the large demo versions in unpacked form: The readme provides the release date as June 4, 1997. This demo contains two missions, one for each side.

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You can get it, albeit not in the original form, from the Internet Archive's Classic PC Games Collection.

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This demo has two variants, both of which were available for download from SSI FTP: a smaller one without the intro ( dcsmall.exe) and a larger one (dcbig.exe) which is the same except it has the intro cinematic. The demo download page was preserved by the Wayback Machine ( link). The one in the video is the demo version which was distributed by Strategic Simulations.

There are at least two different releases, both having the version number 0.2. Some more info on the Dark Colony demo versions. Apparently the rendering method is selected with the command line parameters invoked via shortcuts:

I'm not sure if the game somehow auto-detects the most suitable renderer depending on the machine it is being run on, or has a single pre-set option (with other strings just being there). I checked one of the executables (the March 17 one), and there are several strings there which say VER 1.0, BUILD and then also one of several renderers (D3D and some others). I also wonder how the game picks the renderer I mentioned above. On another note, it seems that one of the distinct features of the English language pre-release demo versions is a different voice actor. Perhaps LKW works so similar in the context of the game to fictional acronyms like MCV or SCV, it kind of got a life of its own as a 'new' word with the plural form LKWs?Īlso I guess we might assume that the demo versions in other languages could exist as well. Haha, I know the meaning of LKW as a word but not what the acronym stands for (and I'd be probably too lazy to check that myself).

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The plural however should be LKW, because the full word is Lastkraftwagen and the plural is (depending on your dialect) Lastkraftwägen or Lastkraftwagen, so no plural-s is involved. Hallfiry wrote:Funny side note: She says LKWs as plural of LKW (the German word for truck). Perhaps version 1P is also in German (or another language different from English)? That would probably explain why they're similar in size (and larger than the other versions). The missions are the same as in the slightly earlier multiWarzone2100 demos. But the game itself is fully translated into German, with text and all voice-overs. The readme dates are apparently off in many cases (and some versions are missing the readme altogether).īTW, version 1Q is actually in German, as is its installer. I haven't yet tried to verify if the build dates coincide with the installer dates (which are indicated in the post above). The main menu screen shows the build date and renderer type (D3D in most cases, as it seems). Some info (including compilation date) is displayed if you just open file properties in Windows. The executables themselves have a completely different version numbering altogether. It might be that they adopted the alphabetical numbering only with the second demo release, so I guess we can retroactively assign it the 1a number.Īnother thing is that these alphabetic things seem to be only found in the DATA.TAG files. Hallfiry wrote:It seems to be 1a by the regular counting, as it is shortly before 1b, right?