Thief 2 brought a number of new features to the world. The internet tells me that Thief Gold was released in October of 1999, and that the Thief 2 demo came out in November of 1999, which sounds about right. Just for fun I redownloaded the demo now. My recollection is that it took a good 12 hours to download it, and I got up a ton to reconnect my flakey flakey internet connection. Then I would get out of bed, re-establish the connection, and resume the download. So I started downloading the demo, and I turned the volume way up on my computer so I would hear it when the dial-up connection would drop. However, I had just started working at a software company (VanDyke Software, makers of SecureCRT for you terminal emulator fans out there), and one of the products was an FTP client that had the ability to resume interrupted downloads. At the time, of course, I was on dial up internet and that connection was super flakey in my apartment. One very clear memory I have is of the Thief 2 demo coming out, sometime in late 1999 I think. It's time to start Thief 2: The Metal Age. Thief Gold final playthrough appreciation thread Now that I've wrapped up Thief Gold (see this thread):
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