Secret Beta Page |
You found the area with the unofficial beta releases. I have a little collection of games that have leaked out before release, and here they are for download.
Shadow Warrior
SHADOW.ZIP (16.7MB)
Shadow Warrior was leaked by a tech support employee who wanted to play a modem game with his friend. Unfortunately, the game spread farther than his friend, and this employee was fired. One difference in this version is you begin the first level in a completely different location. There are also quite a few unreleased maps included in this version, which can be selected through the user levels.
Duke Nukem 3D
This beta was leaked from a magazine previewer named Jim. You can see a message from George in the included text file. After this version was leaked, it is safe to say 3D Realms hasn't been sending out beta versions of games to magazines. There are some minor differences in this version, such as the message that rises up on the building in the 2nd level is different.
Blood
Now this one is very interesting. This leak occured back when 3D Realms was going to publish Blood. One of the developer's computers was sent to a PC repair shop, and this shop found this in development game and copied and leaked it. It was mentioned the next time a PC goes in for a repair, someone is going along with the computer and is not going to take their eyes off of it during the process. Anyways, this is a very early look at Blood, complete with interesting documentation like Change Logs, early map designs, and even the (now open source) BUILD Engine source code.
bsource.zip - The game source code.
Archive Password: elcycer (recycle)
comm1120.zip - The communication src.
Archive Password: jello
stup1122.zip - Setup src.
Archive Password: jello
Hocus Pocus
Beta Compiled: Jan 13, 1994 (1.0 released on June 1, 1994)
HMP_HOCB.ZIP (731KB)
It appears Hocus Pocus was leaked through the external beta team, since that's whom the informative readme is addressed to.
Realms of Chaos
Beta Compiled: Jan 5, 1994 (1.0 released on Nov 11, 1995)
HMP_ROCB.ZIP (820KB)
Here's a farily early look at Keith Schuler's (Who's now working on DNF) Realms of Chaos. Looks like another one leaked through the external beta team (probably the same person, since the dates are so close together). Requires password "GENESIS".
Wolfenstien 3-D
Beta Compiled: April ??, 1992 (1.0 released on May 5, 1992)
wolf1v.zip (471KB)
A few weeks before the shareware version of Wolf3D was officially released, a beta version was floating around. Mostly minor map/art differences in this version. A note, the EXE has been modified a few times with new readmes.