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Review                  : Back to the roots! :)
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Primary purpose         : Historical reasons
                          Single+Coop play / Deathmatch
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Title                   : HERETIC - WIDE AREA BETA
Filename                : HERETIC1.WAD HERETIC.EXE etc.
                          (Beta-shareware with three levels)
Release date            : Dec. 20 1994
Author                  : RAVEN/ID SOFTWARE
Email Address           : -

Description             : This is a wide area beta release of the [...] 
                          game HERETIC.  The first three levels are 
                          included.  Note that this is NOT a final release 
                          version, and may be prone to crashes or 
                          unexpected errors.
                          
Additional note         : The system time has to be temporarily set to 
                          December 20, 1994, to play the game. Otherwise 
                          you'll get a (specious) "Corrupt WAD file" 
                          error.
                          Thanks to mwmiller, who shared this information 
                          in the forums of www.johnromero.com .
                          
                          All installation files (found on an old level-cd:
                          'DOOM HEAVEN II') have the original timestamps, 
                          except for the FILE_ID.DIZ, but i will quote here
                          an excerpt of a directory listing from 
                          cd-textfiles.com, that shows all the original 
                          timestamps, including that of the FILE_ID.DIZ:
                          
                          DEICE.EXE       20-Dec-1994 14:01    17k  
                          HT_BETA.1       20-Dec-1994 14:02   1.4M  
                          HT_BETA.2       20-Dec-1994 14:03   974k  
                          INSTALL.BAT     20-Dec-1994 14:06     1k                            
                          HT_BETA.DAT     21-Dec-1994 08:00     1k  
                          FILE_ID.DIZ     21-Dec-1994 08:01     1k 
                          
                          This listing was found at:
                          http://cd.textfiles.com/gpack2/HERETIC/

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* What is included *

New levels              : 3
Sounds                  : Yes
Music                   : Yes
Graphics                : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : No
Demos                   : Yes


* Play Information *

Game                    : Heretic
Map #                   : E1M1 E1M2 E1M3
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Designed for
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : Designed for
Other game styles       : No
Difficulty Settings     : Not implemented


* Construction *

Base                    : New from scratch


* Where to get the file that this text file describes *

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The review at the beginning of this template has been written by FunDuke.