What Happend with the demo?

[wumpus]

Back when KSP was released, there were still at least two versions of the demo.  The original demo was on squad's site, while the "new" 1.0.0 based demo was on Steam.  While 1.0.0 is in many ways a great improvement over the ancient free KSP, it certainly had a lot of bugs (some of the worst may have just been Steam issues not updating critical files).  In any event you can't distribute the  1.0.0 demo

You can distribute the early (before KSP went on sale) editions.  Here's a link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9S8km6a08YmcFNFdFRCajJkb3c

18.3 is the "old demo" and recommended for those interested in a demo.  The others are more of historical interest.

WARNING: Don't expect to take your mad 0.18.3 skills straight into 1.5.x, many of us had to completely relearn how to get into orbit now that stability is an issue and the souposphere is gone.

The biggest change is that with 0.18.3, the typical way to get into orbit is to go up 10km, turn east about 45 degrees (towards the horizon) until your apossis (try looking at ["M"]ap view).  Coast to apossis.  Once there, fire your engines again prograde (the way you are heading) until your orbit is completely in space.  Yes, that's the extremely condensed method to get into orbit, but it is mostly about the difference needed between 0.18.3 and modern KSP.  You don't have to worry about aerodynamic stability (just that the force  of the engines doesn't tear the thing apart), that comes with 1.5 (started with 1.0).

[Lisias]

On 10/19/2018 at 2:36 PM, Darth Badie said:

Sadly, the demo version that we had available until recently is based on a really old and outdated version of KSP. Because of this, we no longer feel it really is a good measure for people to know how well their machine will handle it

There're a strong, living ethos on Retrocomputing and retro-videogaming. (I think I saw the newest President of Brasil playing MegaDrive on his recovering….) 

Perhaps you could exploit this niche using the old Demo? It's a niche, but it's a vibrant one.

[Gargamel]

5 hours ago, 5thHorseman said:

That last one is because Mun was in the previous demo and returning from it was my own personal goal before justifying buying the game.

What about.... you can enter the Moon's SOI, but you can't leave it.     And kerbals have a fixed life span of 1 week.

/*Evil laugh*/