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Heretic (Shareware)
DOS · 1994 · First-person shooter · by Raven Software / id Software
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About this game
DOOM's dark-fantasy sibling: Raven took id's engine and conjured a world of crossbows, gauntlets, and undead golems. This is the shareware release — the full first episode, City of the Damned — exactly as it spread across 1994's BBSes.
SOURCE — obtained from archive.org
LICENSE — Shareware version 1.2 — the license in the package (LICENSE.DOC) expressly grants royalty-free electronic distribution: 'ID grants to you the right to distribute, royalty free and by electronic means only, the Software' provided it stays in compressed format, as here.