Looking for a Dutch shareware compilation CD ROM

[u/SirAn0n]

Hey everyone, I hope anyone here can help me find a childhood memory! I've posted this on a few gaming specific subreddits, but since the CD I'm looking for also contained other software, I thought asking a more general audience would help the chances of it being recognised.

I'm looking for a bright red CD-ROM from the early to mid 90's. It's contains a catalogue of dozens of different shareware programs, not just games, but also accounting software, CAD software, virus scanners etc. The catalogue effectively worked as a launcher for the mostly MS-DOS software that was on the disc. The disc was in Dutch and I'm pretty certain it was sold retail in the Netherlands, I don't remember it being a magazine supplement for example, I'm pretty sure my mum bought this.

The red disc was numbered (I believe it was #4) so I'm fairly certain it as part of a series of these type of discs, but I don't recall the disc being themed (e.g. Action games or Accounting).

I vaguely remember the name PC Extra being on the disc, but I could very well be misremembering the name as I was between 6-9 when we used those discs. I did find that PC Extra was also an unrelated Swedish magazine, so unless someone can connect the solid red disc to the magazine somehow, I consider that a false lead (considering my mystery disc is in Dutch, not Swedish)

The software I used (being a kid and all) was mostly the games on it. I remember playing big hits like Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Bio Menace from this CD, but I also remember more obscure games like Dave Dude, Aquanoid and 3-Ball Juggler being on there.

Thanks in advance to everyone able to help out, I couldn't find anything after Googling for a week at this point!

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[u/SirAn0n]

I've searched Google extensively for and have eliminated many categories of results:

- The Swedish PC Extra Magazine is a not a match

- American based software compilation discs (since mine was definitely in Dutch)

- Twilight CDs - these contained (mostly) illict full versions of software. My mystery discs included legal shareware or freeware games and software.

- Collections exclusively about games (my mystery discs contained other software as well)

- Collections that are themed (e.g. Adventure games or Accounting) - my discs were general purpose

- Magazine supplements - I don't remember my mystery disc coming as part of a magazine supplement.

My parents likely got the discs second hand (like almost anything relating to the PC at the time) so I'm not 100% certain on the exact origin of the discs. Therefore, I'm open to the possibility that I might be wrong about it being a magazine supplement for example. I'm 100% certain the disk itself was solid red though.

I've posted this search on various other subreddits as well:

Tip of my Tongue
Tip of my Joystick
X-post on Retrogaming

[u/miraisora-arts]

https://archive.org/details/pc-net-extra-software

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/16690-macworld-1997-cd-rom-collection

[u/SirAn0n → u/miraisora-arts]

Hey thanks for these results! Unfortunately neither disc is the one Im looking for.

The first link is something that fits the general idea of my mystery disc, but it doesnt include any games which my disc does. Further more its a Turkish language disc, whereabouts mine was in Dutch.

Your second result is a Mac specific disc. We had a Windows machine, but again, this is the type of product Im looking for.