dtgreene: By the way, is there any place I could get an unregistered shareware version of Tyrian? (This would be for research/educational purposes, of course.)
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ucuits heryder (or "(ʘ̅‿ʘ̅)" for short *), you probably found it already – but just in case, this would be what you are looking for, I guess :
Tyrian © 1995 Eclipse Software / Epic MegaGames Quote : "The shareware version includes the first episode of the game, Escape."
Three files are available there (as well as a generous helping of informational links, plus a dozen screenshots) :
• tyrsw20.zip (Shareware, MS-DOS, 1782 KB)
• tyrup201.zip (Patch, MS-DOS, 438 KB)
• tyrianfaq.zip (FAQ, MS-DOS, 25 KB)
tyrsw20.zip download link and fetched file analysis at
shows both as being safe (as of today, 2017 April 3rd at 23:34:49 UTC) – and indeed, why should it be otherwise, considering most (if not all) games listed on the DOS Games Archive site's [url=http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/sale/]Buy DOS games page refer to GOG in their "Download full version" section, stating the following along the way :
| If you buy a game you don't only get the full version game,
| you also support DOS Games Archive. For every sale we receive
| a small fee from the download store which helps us to keep
| this free website alive. Thank you and have fun!
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