Welcome

Welcome

Demu is media cataloging website which I have been working on since 1998. Digital items are now hosted and primarily accessed through The Internet Archive through two accounts:

  • My primary account @swizzley is an administrator for the collections of Classic PC Games and The DEMU Collection . The Classic PC Games collection includes primarily demo, freeware, shareware, and extras (cheats, documents, mods, trainers, etc.), of DOS and vintage Windows games. Files provided are often the original releases which will require intermediate to advanced knowledge to install and run in emulators if you are using a modern operating system. Where possible online play is supported so you can run them directly in your browser. The DEMU collection is deprecated at this point due to the overwhelming progress of DiscMaster. There are approximately 19,000 computer applications and other antique digital files as part of the collection but it's unlikely any additional files will be added in the future. Going forward, the majority of new additions are likely to be disk images made using Greaseweazle.
  • My secondary account @swizzley_scans is primarily where scanned materials will be uploaded. This may include vintage, books, magazines, computer or video game manuals. The genre of items may vary depending on what can be located (at an affordable price) which has not yet been preserved. Currently the bulk of my attention is on pulp magazines.

If you have materials you would like to see added to The Internet Archive but don't have the capability to do so yourself feel free to reach out to me. I may be able to offer non-destructive or destructive (spine cutting) scanning, dumping of disks, ripping of discs, and other community archival services. Feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or suggestions.

Collections

Below are items I found particularly interesting and wanted to bring more attention to.

Computer Currents

Published from 1983 through 2000 Computer Currents (formerly Computer Classified) was a free computer magazine with multiple regional chapters across the country.

GIF News Collection

Between 1988 and 1994 Eric Hsiao created GIF News (and later GFX News). A small magazine distributed through BBS, and later across the Internet, which focused on technology news. All of the issues which have been found are displayed here so you do not need to download and extract the original archives.

Interactive Entertainment Magazine

A multimedia CD-ROM magazine containing game news, previews, and reviews. Only 24 issues were released from 1994 to 1996.

Strategy Guides

There was a time where you would purchase books which would include maps, secrets, and tips about your games. I am working on cataloging these books to ensure they are preserved.

Unlock the Secrets

Between roughly 1996 and 2000, GameWizards released interactive strategy guides for several popular games. Game Mastery Through Multi-Media

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