08-10-2003, 01:24 PM
Aah the good old pre-release demo!
I've still got it here and play it sometimes when I get bored.
There are some really interesting things in it. I've got a few patches that enable the whole church, let you play as the sorceror (with warrior gfx...quite funny) and use all the spells in the game (Doom Serpents, Blood Boil, blah blah...really buggy, game keeps crashing).
The coolest thing is the book on level 4 which opens the stairs to level 5...."Beyond the hall of heroes lies the catacombs..." or something like that.
It's really fun messing around with this thing. There are loads of old item gfx, old speech files and other things in it.
Discovering the old pre/suffixes for items is quite interesting, too....most of them have the remark (NW)-"Not Working"...too bad. I'd love to see my Ring of Infravision work :)
Other items like books of identify are find and buyable, too.
I'm not really into modmaking, debugging and so on, but I'd love to hear what the exe file contains...well I can read some stuff in the hex-editor but there must be more.
Oh and there are two versions of the alpha.
The first one runs from a single exe file, while the second one is an archive with exe, mpq and dll files in it.
There's also the Diablo Beta which was sent to 1000 people ion 1996. It was battle-net only (no longer playable) and contained 5 levels (church + 1 catacomb).
You could play all three characters and almost everything was close to the final version except for some bugs and unfinished quests. NO, not the deleted quests everybody gets crazy about...just the normal ones we know from the retail version.
I think there's an interesting article about the beta over at dIInetwork.
I've still got it here and play it sometimes when I get bored.
There are some really interesting things in it. I've got a few patches that enable the whole church, let you play as the sorceror (with warrior gfx...quite funny) and use all the spells in the game (Doom Serpents, Blood Boil, blah blah...really buggy, game keeps crashing).
The coolest thing is the book on level 4 which opens the stairs to level 5...."Beyond the hall of heroes lies the catacombs..." or something like that.
It's really fun messing around with this thing. There are loads of old item gfx, old speech files and other things in it.
Discovering the old pre/suffixes for items is quite interesting, too....most of them have the remark (NW)-"Not Working"...too bad. I'd love to see my Ring of Infravision work :)
Other items like books of identify are find and buyable, too.
I'm not really into modmaking, debugging and so on, but I'd love to hear what the exe file contains...well I can read some stuff in the hex-editor but there must be more.
Oh and there are two versions of the alpha.
The first one runs from a single exe file, while the second one is an archive with exe, mpq and dll files in it.
There's also the Diablo Beta which was sent to 1000 people ion 1996. It was battle-net only (no longer playable) and contained 5 levels (church + 1 catacomb).
You could play all three characters and almost everything was close to the final version except for some bugs and unfinished quests. NO, not the deleted quests everybody gets crazy about...just the normal ones we know from the retail version.
I think there's an interesting article about the beta over at dIInetwork.