90s Magazine Demo CDs

[NayusDante]

I'm trying to identify a certain demo CD that I've long since lost. It came with a magazine I've forgotten the title of, and had a bunch of demos and previews on it. The disc itself was purple, and called "The Disc." From a search perspective, that's a HORRIBLE name for your disc if anyone is ever going to look it up, but whatever.

There were a lot of weird demos and video previews on the particular issue's disc that I had. Some of them that I remember were a non-interactive demo for Total Distortion, a playable demo of Witchaven, a video preview for "Cooking with Dom Deluise," a video preview for some word processor that had a guy dressed as Ben Franklin, a playable demo of Loadstar: Legend of Tully Bodine, and a bunch of other weird stuff.

The main thing that's bugging me is that one of the demos was some kind of preview for Toad the Wet Sprocket. I must have been 7 when I saw this, and thought "what a funny name," but now that I'm a big Toad fan, I'm curious as to what exactly it was. Can anyone identify the publication that bundled "The Disc" with its issues? It would have been somewhere between 1994 and 1996.

[Kitsune Sniper]

That sounds like PC Accelerator to me. I bought a few issues of it and it featured similar stuff to what you've described.

I have a bunch of CDs of theirs I got in a trade. Lemme check if I have that particular one around.

[LaughingMAN.S9]

was it boot magazine? it came with a disc either called boot disc or just the disk, always had graphics card benchmarks in it as well as demos and shit?

[Kitsune Sniper]

I checked, none of my CDs are from that time period. Sorry.

[NayusDante]

I don't think it would have been boot or any of the "enthusiast" magazines, it was one of the more casual publications.

I'm beginning to think it was a one-shot magazine, or some kind of annual. It wasn't CD-ROM Today, but it might have been something like Disc Drive, or something similar.