There's an even earlier release of the v0.0048 which can be found via the Wayback Machine: aordemo.zip. At least, they don't seem to appear in the latter 5-Star General games, including Allied General ( Panzer General II in Germany not to be confused with the "real" Panzer General II), which is the direct successor (or an updated remake) of the first PG. Note: Since I haven't played the full release version of Panzer General I'm not sure if the inset animations (those things in circles) were cut from the later demo or removed altogether from the game. It has the same two Poland scenarios from the 1939 campaign as the pre-release demo. The Joystick demo is the same as the downloadable demo, except they apparently didn't use the installer and just unpacked the ARJ archive on their own. It seems to be roughly from the same time as the press demo that Interactive Entertainment used in their preview but only includes the first two Poland scenarios just like the later demo, whereas the press demo had eight scenarios as can be seen on one IE screenshot. The big demo from PC Player is an early, pre-release demo that does not have a lot of the menu animations and high-res fonts for turn count, but includes large inset attack animations that are lacking from the regular downloadable demo. However the Interactive Entertainment Preview of Panzer General shows what is clearly a press demo with several scenarios and some differences from the public FTP demo and the final version, which at least suggests that a pre-release press demo did exist. I was unable to find this CD online so I'm only guessing that this might be a beta leak. Hallfiry's catalogue suggests an unusually large installer of a Panzer General demo (DATA.A00 file size 10 849 178 bytes, dated 13 December 1994) on the PC Player February 1995 CD. This is much closer to a demo as the campaign mode is disabled and there's only about nine or ten scenarios available. This version is found on the CD Action No. The date on the DATA.A00 file is, the file size is 17 755 090 bytes. 48 according to the readme, but its internal designation is v.0.0072: Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles The installer help file contains text in French which suggests that perhaps the beta was originally leaked by a French magazine, but this is not certain. ![]() This version appears to be not limited in any way, it contains a large number of scenarios, the campaign mode and mission builder, and several saved games, apparently intended to show gameplay to reviewers. ![]() The main installer file (DATA.A00) is 15 561 910 bytes. The catalogue records four coverdisks with this version: SCORE No. The beta is dated 18 July 1995, the installer files 8 August 1995. ![]() ![]() Using Hallfiry's catalogue I have identified three such pre-release versions: This false impression was probably reinforced by the fact that the betas came with the same type of installer as the regular SSI demo versions. It appears that SSI were sending out pre-release versions of some of their games to magazines for preview, and several have ended up on magazine cover disks, mistaken for legitimate demo versions of the respective games.
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