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Posted November 03, 2022
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HunchBluntley: No clue about the original side-scrollers, but if we're speaking of Duke Nukem 3D, that was only released on CD-ROM (1 disc, at least for the original full-version release; not sure whether later editions which included expansions might've added another disc).
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Braggadar: Atomic Edition was on one CD as well.
And most of that disk was a redbook audio track of an actual guitar recording arrangement of the theme song.
Posted November 03, 2022
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Braggadar: Atomic Edition was on one CD as well.
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mqstout: And most of that disk was a redbook audio track of an actual guitar recording arrangement of the theme song.
Doh! I think I got rid of that CD about 10 years ago after I got the digital download ... now I have to search my basement. Thank you very much :P
Posted November 03, 2022
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rtcvb32: Stumbled on Troubled Origins of Zip which is getting into the various archive formats at the time.

edit: Formats like Zoo and ARC are touched on but not in much detail... Rather it's the battle between SEA and PKWARE and said origins, and not much else.
Interesting video but left me wanting more. I remember PKware shareware, but I had no clue that Sea existed. PKware still lives on today, interesting.

Looking up install videos on Youtube, I saw that Wolf3d used PKSFX by PKWare to inflate installed files. Later ID Software would use LHA for Doom1, Doom2 and Heretic. LHA was created by a Japanese doctor in 1988. Small world!
[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_(file_format)"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_(file_format)[/url]
Doom2 uses 5 floppies.
Post edited November 03, 2022 by DavidOrion93
Posted November 03, 2022
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mqstout: (Famously, Phantasmagoria's 7 disks were all mostly identical except a few chapter-specific movies.)
From what I understand, Final Fantasy 7 was like that as well; each of the 3 disks are identical except for the FMVs.

(The (old) PC version of FF7, incidentally, has 4 disks, 1 of which is used for the installer.)
Posted November 04, 2022
The original Baldur's Gate came out on 5 CDs.
Atlantis: The Lost Tales came out on 4 CDs.
Dungeon Siege 2 came out on 4 CDs.
Bet on Soldier came out on 4 CDs.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King came out on 3 CDs.

Wolfenstein: The New Order came out on 4 DVDs.

Still have all of them.
Post edited November 04, 2022 by idbeholdME
Posted November 04, 2022
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dtgreene: (The (old) PC version of FF7, incidentally, has 4 disks, 1 of which is used for the installer.)
And I still have my copy, somewhere...

I did originally have it on the PSX, and almost completed it, before selling the complete system and going back to gaming on the PC. Hence the PC version of Final Fantasy VII, which I planned to use to finally complete the game on. But the whole experience was not a good one, compared to what I had become use to on the PSX, and there were also quite a number of off putting bugs in the PC version too. So, it has ever since sat in whatever storage box it currently resides in, since that day, never to be completed...
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idbeholdME: The original Baldur's Gate came out on 5 CDs.
My box copy (which I still have) came with the expansion TotSC, so 6 CD's in a nice tri-fold folder.
Post edited November 04, 2022 by Trooper1270
Posted November 04, 2022
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Trooper1270: My box copy (which I still have) came with the expansion TotSC, so 6 CD's in a nice tri-fold folder.
I only have the discs in a generic multifold box. The game was included ages ago with a gaming magazine. The discs have a special "bundled software" warning on them, stating that they are not to be sold separately. I think this collection came out even before TotSC was out (the copyright on them is from 1998).
Post edited November 04, 2022 by idbeholdME
Posted November 04, 2022
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idbeholdME: I only have the discs in a generic multifold box. The game was included ages ago with a gaming magazine. The discs have a special "bundled software" warning on them, stating that they are not to be sold separately. I think this collection came out even before TotSC was out (the copyright on them is from 1998).
So essentially a freebie, then ?, Nice!. I believe I paid £19.99 about twenty years ago, for what was considered back then, the complete edition.
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