Glide demo candidates

Research checked 2026-09-29. These are acquisition and compatibility leads, not additional games claimed to run. Prefer the original renderer distributed with the demo; a modern Glide wrapper does not establish that the original game or this implementation supports the required API.

Archive.org leads

Ranked for further Win32 renderer inspection. Sizes are exact bytes from the Internet Archive item metadata, rather than rounded item totals.

The Turok installer has MD5 9c92578fe9a6038731722dcb9b2502ba. Its self-extracting ZIP contains an InstallShield data1.cab. Follow-up inspection successfully extracted it with the already installed unshield: preserving the original data1.cab basename resolves the earlier open failure. Video_3DFx.dll is 93,696 bytes; Turok3DfxDemo.exe is 1,091,072 bytes. The renderer's actual PE import descriptor names glide2x.dll, with 47 decorated imports including _grSstWinOpen@28, _grLfbLock@24, _guTexAllocateMemory@60, _guTexSource@4, _guTexDownloadMipMap@12, and _guDrawTriangleWithClip@12. These utility-texture and clipped-triangle calls make it a useful next compatibility target; API generation alone does not prove the current implementation covers them. Nothing was executed.

Installer SHA-256: 340c67692279c94c5d83a6622b7f63be469b484fb8e32594cd5579af21a1f18e. Extracted renderer SHA-256: cf5b66ca2e252afaefc1449341c513ece72987637d8813d54b84e1da7b19f83b. Static extraction lives under /private/tmp/glide-turok-static/extracted/.

Metadata sources: Turok, Moto Racer 2, UT 338, UT 348.

Already available local fixtures

An independent static audit of the shared fixture tree verified the following PE imports. These require no new acquisition and should precede the archive leads for practical coverage. Paths are relative to test/binaries/candidates/. The worktrees share this fixture tree; do not modify its originals to select a renderer.

These counts are decorated gr names from the static import audit, not the broader string-reference counts in the design document. See the Glide design, Unreal-family notes and Diablo II notes for existing investigations.

Lower-priority local fixtures contain original OpenGL-to-Glide drivers:

• quake2_demo: quake-2-demo-installer/installed-extracted/Install/Data/3dfxgl.dll.
• halflife_uplink: half-life-uplink-installer/installed/gldrv/3dfxgl.dll.
• icewind_dale_demo: icewind-dale-demo/installed-extracted/Recommended_compressed/3dfx.dll. This imports glide2x.dll and exports 360 gl/wgl functions; the current manifest omits it.

These are original intermediary drivers, not direct game-level Glide renderers or modern replacement wrappers. Their OpenGL dependency adds another layer to validation. UT348 was absent at the initial local audit; the follow-up below adds its original demo fixture without registering a launcher entry.

Separate or unverified leads

Windows Tomb Raider demos added to the corpus

These exercise Direct3D 2, not native Glide. Downloaded and statically extracted on 2026-09-29; each directory contains provenance.json with original URLs, byte sizes, SHA-256 checksums, extraction details and PE evidence. No launch entries were added and neither installer nor game was executed.

• TR II Venice: test/binaries/candidates/tomb-raider-2-demo/game/TOMB2.EXE. Original download tr2_demo_02.exe, 3,781,120 bytes.
• TR III India/Jungle: test/binaries/candidates/tomb-raider-3-demo/extracted/Program_Executable_Files/tomb3.exe. Original download tr3_demo_01.exe, 7,777,792 bytes. InstallShield extraction required unshield -O (old compression).

Both executables import DirectDraw and contain the Direct3D 2 interface GUID; no Glide import or string was found. They are separate from the DOS Tomb Raider I 3dfx package below.

No FIFA/NBA package met the evidence threshold in this bounded search.

Additional well-known games checked

The strongest newly verified Win32 Glide2 lead is Wing Commander: Prophecy's original 3dfx test. This is a different, smaller release from the later story demo, and it specifically requires Glide.

Follow-up GPL extraction also tried the already installed p7zip 17.04. It lists the archive but reports Unsupported Method for RAST3DFX.DLL and README.WRI; BSD tar reports Parsing filters is unsupported for the renderer. Neither produced a usable DLL. No extractor was installed and no installer was executed, so the precise GPL demo Glide ABI remains an explicit extraction blocker. Moto Racer 2 remains at documented renderer selection evidence; its larger package was not downloaded in this follow-up.

DOS branches

Tomb Raider I, Carmageddon I/Splat Pack, Redguard, and Screamer Rally belong in a separate DOS/3dfx workstream. DOS hardware or GLIDE2X.OVL support does not follow from adding Win32 glide2x.dll handlers. The DOSBox Staging video-card documentation is the implementation project's reference for this distinction; package verification is still required before claiming any particular demo works.

• Tomb Raider's already listed tomb3dem.zip directly contains DOS4GW.EXE.
• Redguard demo: REDGUARD-Demo.rar, 69,454,643 bytes. Package located, not downloaded; no claim that its particular demo includes the accelerated executable.
• Screamer Rally demos: host identifies srdemo.zip (19,114 kB) and srdemo-it.zip (36,825 kB) as playable MS-DOS demos. Exact bytes and demo-specific Glide executable imports were not inspected. srally.zip is an ambiguous historical name also used by Sega Rally, so identify the contents before acquisition.
• Carmageddon Splat Pack demo is a more relevant DOS 3dfx lead than assuming the earliest Carmageddon beta already shipped acceleration. Exact package ABI remains unchecked.

Static acquisition provenance

Only archive inspection was performed; none of these executables was run. The three additional downloads are temporary research artifacts outside the committed corpus. SHA-256:

Acceptance before adding a launcher entry

1. Extract the original package and inventory PE imports, dynamic DLL names, decorated exports, and the actual renderer selection mechanism.
2. Classify Win32 glide2x.dll, glide3x.dll, or DOS/direct hardware access. An original 3dfx option alone does not establish this distinction.
3. Trace the original renderer with threads enabled and fail on unsupported APIs. A title screen or successful DLL load is not gameplay acceptance.
4. Verify moving geometry, input, HUD and texture transparency with screenshots and renderer counters. Record renderer-specific API gaps separately from unrelated loader, audio or platform dependencies.

Follow-up: DOS Zone and PCGamingWiki lists

Checked 2026-09-29 against DOS Zone's 3dfx collection and PCGamingWiki's Glide list. The latter returned HTTP 403 directly; its search-index copy was accessible, but this was not an exhaustive audit of all its entries. These are discovery lists, not evidence that a particular original demo includes a Win32 Glide renderer. None of the new packages below was downloaded or executed in this follow-up. Archive filenames and exact sizes were checked through item metadata.

Newly located Windows demo candidates

Metadata: Myth, Sub Culture, Recoil, Future Cop, Forsaken.

What the catalog comparison does not add

• GTA2 and Turok already have stronger local binary evidence above; their catalog listings do not represent additional acquisitions.
• Carmageddon's original DOS branch remains separate. For GTA1 and London, verify which executable supplies 3dfx support rather than assuming that a Windows edition implies a Windows Glide renderer.
• DOS Zone also lists Valley of RA, Grand Bleu Flipper, and The Wizard of Tower WIZ technology demos. They may be compact graphics fixtures, but original package provenance, executable platform, and required Glide ABI were not verified here; no compatible Win32 claim is made.
• Original Glide 2 consumers already mounted locally remain the quickest next tests. Myth and Sub Culture are the best new acquisition leads from this comparison, rather than replacements for GTA2/Unreal acceptance.

Glide 3 corpus acquisitions

Downloaded and statically extracted on 2026-09-29: two new verified native Win32 Glide 3 demos, in addition to the existing Diablo II demo. Verification read each original x86 PE import descriptor and thunk table; a filename, wrapper bundle, or retail game's reputation was not used as proof. No installer or game was executed, and no registry or launcher entries changed.

Paths below are relative to the worktree's test/binaries/candidates/ symlink, which points at the shared ignored corpus. Each new directory has a provenance.json recording source URLs, archive and renderer hashes, extraction commands, dependency DLL names, and every actual Glide import.

Both complete original archives are retained. Hitman's InstallShield cabinet was extracted with unshield; its component groups (Engine_files, Game_files, and support groups) must be assembled into a separate launch VFS matching the installer layout. Hype's ZIP self-extractor was opened with 7z; the complete data, sound DLLs, CRT/MFC and configuration/setup files were retained. Extraction alone is not an installed/configured application, and installer path/registry effects have not been evaluated. These are future Glide 3 compatibility targets, not claims that the current Glide 2 frontend can run them. In particular, same-name functions can have different stack signatures between Glide generations.

Unreal Tournament variant checked

unreal-tournament-348-demo/UTDEMO348.EXE was also acquired and the full original ZIP payload extracted to extracted/. Its System/GlideDrv.dll is 86,016 bytes and imports 54 functions from glide2x.dll, including _grSstWinClose@0 and _grTexDownloadTable@12. It contributes zero to the new Glide 3 count. No later renderer patch was substituted. Original game entry point: extracted/System/UnrealTournament.exe; launch remains untested.

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