HERETIC - WIDE AREA BETA

To run this you have to adjust your system clock to pre December 1994 (or exactly some date in Decemver 1994, I forget). If you don't, you get the "corrupted wad file" error. The WAD file is not corrupt.

Corrupt WAD file!

Perhaps an older beta would be interesting, but this is only dated a few days before the final shareware.

Historically interesting.

^Correct! Worked like a charm with Fakedate... I didn't find this beta particularly interesting, though. As DZombie, I haven't find any difference with regular Heretic Shareware, except a "beta" inscription at the title screen which blinks during gameplay and demo loop. After hitting the exit switch in E1M3, the game quits stating E1M4 hasn't been found.

I can't run it, the WAD is corrupt

There differences:Only the first 3 levels from the first episode are available, Undead Warrior has a golden belt instead of a silver one, level 2 has a different texture for that lift that has the Claw under it (the one that raises up and down near the starting point of the level), and the claw orb pickups are a lighter shade of blue.

this beta is NO Different than the Heretic Shareware we all have at least once played,it's not that much different than any other one i have played.~DZombie

Avoid. Only three levels that look as the ones of the shareware, plus some nasty bugs.

The above review misses the point. It's useful to have these older versions available so as to understand how a program developed.

if you want to play this beta release without any "corrupt WAD file", use Fakedate from doomprbt.zip