Age of Empires II CD Demo (CGW)
The
Computer Gaming World February 2000 issue cover disk contains a release of the
Age of Empires II demo with different custom scenario and mutiplayer maps compared to the Internet download version. The custom map is called Trial Baltic Map.scn and allows to play as the Celts against two computer opponents. By contrast, the Trial Coastal Map.scn in the Internet release allows to play as the Britons, and the map itself is also different. The multiplayer map in the CD demo is called Trial Multiplayer Team Islands Map.scn (in the Internet demo, the multiplayer version of the same Coastal Map is used instead). Apart from that, the demo is identical to the Internet release.
The installer is called a2cddemo.exe (49 091 848 bytes) and its date is November 2, 1999.