ENGINES: Add new demo detection in many engines #3338

Found on PC Gamer covermount March 1998. It uses AVI files (Cinepak 24-bit) instead of SMK.

I'm half-jokingly calling it Canadian because Sanctuary Woods was located there, but it is clearly North American based on the telephone number. The demo before this was published by US Gold, a British publisher, and based on the Manchester phone number, this one is intended for the UK. I don't have a copy of the third demo.

Found on 1997 Sfinx CD from LK Avalon. From the readme: +-------------------------+ | "zwiastun gry SOLTYS" | | (mini-gra przygodowa) | +-------------------------+ Translated to "Soltys Game Trailer" (mini-adventure game)

Found on CD-ACTION (Poland) #21a Feb 1998. From SFINX.TXT: Przedstawiamy gre SFINX Lite, która jest grywalnym demem gry SFINX. Translation: We present the game SFINX Lite, which is a playable demo of the game SFINX.

Found on Blue Byte News Version III/97. From README.TXT: Dies ist eine Demo-Version von "Chewy - Esc von F5". Sie enthalt nur einen kurzen Ausschnitt des kompletten Adventures. Wenn Sie wissen wollen, wie die Geschichte anfängt und ob sie ein Happy-End hat, dann fragen Sie Ihren Software-Handler nach der Komplettversion. Translation: This is a demo version of "Chewy - Esc from F5". It contains only a short part of the complete adventure game. If you want to know how the story begins and whether it has a happy ending, then ask your software dealer for the full version.

Just in case anyone tries to add this, we can now inform them that it's unsupported. https://archive.org/details/playhns_003

These are from the PQ Collection.

https://archive.org/details/a2gs_Dungeon_Master_demo_1989_FTL_FW

* Floppy demo found on PC Format (UK) CD-ROM Collection # 3 * Speech demo found on MediaProducts Supergames Vol 9 * Amiga demo found on Amiga Format (UK) # 60 disk C The DOS demos are also here: https://archive.org/details/DreamWeb_1020 https://archive.org/details/dreamweb-cd_zip

Ween demo has both interactive and non-interactive portions. The title is Ween: The Prophecy, and so language code EN_GRB is used. https://archive.org/details/TheProphecy_1020 Dynasty demo plays a single VMD from a small SCN file. https://archive.org/details/dynasty_zip Combined demo from CD-ROM Today # 11 (1995) plays the above Dynasty demo followed by the already known Woodruff demo. In the spirit of the combined demos in the SCUMM engine, we can create a new game ID. All of the above play without issue in ScummVM. Also added file sizes to some existing detection entries and added the missing demo flags to the Inca2 and Woodruff demos.

The official CD demo (EU) does not include i9n.lab. The only other file that is unique to this version is the Monkey4.exe binary. https://archive.org/details/escape-from-monkey-island-cd-demo Demo is now added to detection, and the checks for i9n.lab have been removed. I left the md5 hash along with a comment, in case it's still desired for reference. The name Web Demo comes from its readme file and installer. The CD simply says: Escape from Monkey Island Demo Version 1.0

Tech demonstration for "Guest" might use an early Groovie v0 engine. Strings from the PLAYTLC.EXE binary: Trilobyte 640x480x256 FLICK & Groovie Player. Version 0.6 Copyright 1991 Trilobyte, all rights reserved. Additionally, we have a couple new demo CDs for 11h, plus a new non- interactive trailer. There is a playable demo CD for Clandestiny and a German demo for TLC.

We don't need this in the extra text because it's already provided.

We can add a message just in case someone tries to run the demo. If someone did want to implement it at some point, it would be fairly simple. It's simply a collection of FLICs and static GIFs.

This will not work yet since Rome is not supported.

Also added Uninvited game ID and macro for demos

Added to the description for demo reported in bug # 11202. There is also a Mac demo on this disc. There is also a standalone CD demo here: https://archive.org/details/Return_to_Zork_demo

These demos were on the site but not in the detection tables.

This larger demo includes The Making of Myst.

Floppy disk demo is from Riki Multimedia Magazine # 23

We can detect this preview and inform users that it's not yet supported

Found here: https://archive.org/details/Neverhood The full demo includes two puzzles to solve, while the lite demo only includes one.

Released in 1997, a full 6 years before the game came out.

The demo that was distributed in the 90s is slightly different than the one later made available on Presto's website. At the time, this was published by Bandai and retains some of their branding in the splash screen and credits.

Also add version info to known demos.

We can detect the modern 64-bit macOS and WinCE trial versions and inform users that they're unsupported. We should explore whether the limited trial functionality can be implemented in ScummVM, as the Pocket PC version has some unique features in both trial and unlocked states.

Found on Inside Mac Games December 1994.

Includes: Lighthouse later non-interactive Phantasmagoria v1.0 demo Space Quest 6 demo (Jan 1995) Shivers CD demo

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ENGINES: Add new demo detection in many engines #3338

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