Pre-ablo: Diablo prerelease demo patched for modern systems
Pre-ablo: Diablo prerelease demo patched for modern systems

gitlab.com
Michael Hitchens / diablo-prdemo-patches · GitLab

Press F1 in-game for help on the controls.
Pre-ablo: Diablo prerelease demo patched for modern systems
Michael Hitchens / diablo-prdemo-patches · GitLab
Press F1 in-game for help on the controls.
I would think at least some of it was for historical preservation. The prerelease demo is neither the same as nor included in the released game. Voices are different, for example.
My thoughts exactly. I mean you can buy it drm free on gog even, and that runs on modern systems too.
But you can’t but an early build of Diablo that was basically a “snapshot of the entire game 4 months prior to release”.