Dark Seed is an adventure game developed by Cyberdreams for MS-DOS that was published by Merit Software in August 1992.

The International Network of Crackers released a sample version of the game on May 18, 1992 ¹⁾.

• TM.IMG and VERSION.IMG were not included on the disks so the title screen lacks those details. (Fig.1)

Fig. 1: Sample Fig. 2: Retail

• The roof of the first house that you see on the way to the town was redrawn. (Fig.3)

Fig. 3: Sample Fig. 4: Retail

They forgot to update this in v1.2 SPA. Note.1

The following eight captions are excerpts of dialogue from TOSTEXT.BIN:

• Line 81: A friend of Delbert's, huh? Come with me Dawson. (Fig.5)
• Line 81: “A friend of Delbert's, huh? Come with me Dawson.” (Fig.6)

Fig. 5: Sample Fig. 6: Retail

• Line 821: The strange abode of a bio-mechanical leech, draining the life force form it's victims. (Fig.7)
• Line 821: The strange abode of a bio-mechanical leech, draining the life force from it's victims. (Fig.8)

Fig. 7: Sample Fig. 8: Retail

• Line 900: The bars look impenetrable, but the lock looks primitve. (Fig.9)
• Line 900: The bars look impenetrable, but the lock looks primitive. (Fig.10)

Fig. 9: Sample Fig. 10: Retail

• Line 902: You attempt to pick the primitve lock. Nothing happens. (Fig.11)
• Line 902: You attempt to pick the primitive lock. Nothing happens. (Fig.12)

Fig. 11: Sample Fig. 12: Retail

• The author of the article on the film scan is named after the founder of Cyberdreams. Note.2 (Fig.13)

Fig. 13: Sample Fig. 14: Retail

• There's a triangular hole in the wall of the power chamber instead of an all seeing eye. (Fig.15)

Fig. 15: Sample Fig. 16: Retail

• Save files are displayed from oldest to newest. (Fig.17)

Fig. 17: Sample Fig. 18: Retail

• These files were updated and have some differences:

• There are a few loose palette files that were removed later:

• DS.EXE was replaced with START.EXE in subsequent updates:

• Mike may have once had to contend with a doppelganger from the dark side that was known as “Evil Mike”. (Fig.19)

Fig. 19: Composite

• That might be what Mike sees in his dreams on the second night. (Fig.20)

Fig. 20: Retail

This line of dialogue was removed:

• Line 953: You hear pounding at the door, “Mike Dawson, come on out! It's the police!” Sample
• Line 953: xxx Retail

Fig. 21: Composite

• This version contains two additional voice clips: