voodoo47 on 13/6/2013 at 19:30
these are the original free demos for Thief2 and Thief1, updated to work properly on modern computers:
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7quQTgSRc9KRWNLVlNiTG9BdG8/view?usp=sharing) Thief2 Lost Alpha Demo v1.13 - (
https://www.moddb.com/mods/thief-ii-demo-unwelcome-guest) mirror -
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7quQTgSRc9KcjJPUVZzbEg1M1E/edit?usp=sharing) Thief the Dark Project unified Demo v1.13 - (
https://www.moddb.com/mods/thief-the-dark-project-unified-demo) mirror -
I have been playing with something for the last couple of months, and I believe it's ready for a release. so, without further ado, I present to you;
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Thief2 Lost Alpha Demo
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This is the barely finished alpha version of the Life of the Party mission from Thief2 that has been released by LGS a long time ago as Thief2 demo "Unwelcome Guest". The demo was using an early version of the Thief2 Dark Engine which was much less compatible with new PCs than the final version used for the full game, and thus the demo has not been playable for many years now, becoming "lost" to the gaming world. With the release of NewDark, it's become possible to convert the assets, and get the demo into a working condition. Potential new players can now have a taste of both Thief2 and NewDark in one bite before heading to GOG or Steam to get the full course, and oldtimers will probably enjoy the special alpha flavor this old forgotten place provides. A few rudimentary fixes were applied to some broken assets, and NewSky, hires textures (various texture packs available at TTLG) and objects (EP) have been added as well. Rename the "hires" folder to something else to go full retro (warning, some of those original resources really are alpha, so be prepared to meet AIs with no noses and similar).
note: compatible with EP2 and NecroAge hires texture packs - just drop the pack of your choice into the root T2demo folder.
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System requirements
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Minimum: any PC that can run winXP decently, a fully DX9 compatible graphics card
Recommended: any PC that can run win7 decently, a fully DX10+ compatible graphics card
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Legal stuff
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This demo is not supported by anyone, use at your own risk. The original resources are property of LGS, the new resources belong to whoever made them. Feel free to mirror the demo, or to further modify the resources.
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Thanks to
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Everybody who had helped with the conversion, also to all those who keep releasing hires textures, objects etc. And, of course, special thanks to our mysterious black feathered friend out there, without him, this conversion would not be possible at all. Hope he is enjoying a nice slice of cheese, sitting on a tree branch somewhere.
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http://i.imgur.com/Aqgmhd0.jpg)
Inline Image:
http://i.imgur.com/Aqgmhd0l.jpg[video=youtube;RlPudsbG8vQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPudsbG8vQ[/video]
also adding Thief the Dark Project unified demo;
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Thief the Dark Project unified demo includes both free demos of TDP that were released by LGS, the NewDark engine update, some updated resources, and fixes for a couple of minor issues. The levels have also been relit and dousable candles have been implemented. This is as much free TDP as you can get in one easy package.
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http://i.imgur.com/GeHI5mU.jpg)
Inline Image:
http://i.imgur.com/GeHI5mUl.jpgenjoy.
Constance on 13/6/2013 at 19:35
Yay, some more good news \o/
Well I didn't even know this demo had more trouble than other stuff running on recent hardware... been quite a while since I last played it ^^'
Edit : I am asked to authenticate with my google account to download, is that normal ?
voodoo47 on 13/6/2013 at 19:37
nope, you should be able to download right away. try another browser. //ok, seems like you really have to be signed in. this is something new, maybe google has added it recently. hope someone mirrors it soon.
nickie on 13/6/2013 at 19:41
What a treat - thank you to anyone/everyone involved. Download is working fine for me.
Edit. I seem to be signed in automatically so . . .
Constance on 13/6/2013 at 19:41
OK, it works with IE9 but for some reason, not with Firefox 17.0.6 ESR, even if I disable AdBlock and NoScript :(
Edit : damn, looks like it's only a problem on my side... works with the same browser in a virtual machine but without extension/add-on.
voodoo47 on 13/6/2013 at 19:43
looks like MS was right all along - explorer is the bestestest browser in the entire universe.
nickie on 13/6/2013 at 19:45
It's a bit of an oddity too but I read today that there's a Walkthrough for Dockland at the Circle which is unavailable in Firefox but available in IE. Weird.
Yandros on 14/6/2013 at 01:31
First, thanks so much for doing this, I can't wait to play it - Unwelcome Guest was the first thing Thief I ever played.
Second, any reason to use .7z other than a smaller archive? Because I don't believe DarkLoader will work with 7zip, will it?
Renault on 14/6/2013 at 03:01
@Yandros - The package is standalone, you don't need Thief or Darkloader or anything else.
The demo is really cool - for anyone who thinks this is just Life of the Party repackaged, don't dismiss it, you'll definitely want to check it out. I don't think I've played it for about 10 years or so, but right from the beginning, you'll notice the mission is very different from the standard LOTP. And it's got it's own unique briefing as well.
