At the time when CD drives got more popular, many floppy games where rereleased on CD, for example Kixx released many old Sierra and LucasArts adventures and other floppy games on CD. The reason was obvious: You didn't have to handle so many floppies and installation was a lot faster and easier.
Only the installer and the packed files on the CD were different, but basically - once installed - the game was exactly the same as the floppy version.
The rest of the CD was often filled up with demos and samplers of other games.
Even if it could be interesting preserving these CDs for an archive, for the most users downloading a whole CD of several hundred MBs only to notice later, that the game itself has only the size of a few MB is kind of useless. So I propose marking the corresponding ISO-Floppy games on this page.
I found the following CD-Floppy games:
- The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: Case Of The Serrated Scalpel
The last line of the explanation on this site ("The CD-ROM version features digitized voices, sound tracks, and animations not found in the original version.") is unfortunately wrong - the game is exactly the same as the floppy version. The reason why the "CD version" is bigger is because the game was basically put twice (in two different states on the CD). The mentioned line on this page with the misleading information should be deleted.
- Curse of Enchantia:
The game itself is just the normal floppy game in one packed file (+Installer) and takes only 5 MB. The rest of 100 MB is just the demo of "Curly's adventure", a game which was never released.
- Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch:
The game itself seemed to be bigger than the floppy version, but this is only because the game data resides in only one file and is uncompressed (since the CD has enough space). Packed, it has the same size as the floppy version (about 8 MB ) and the gameplay and contens are exactly the same (possibly the patch included). The rest of the CD (about 230 MB packed data) is just filled with demos of other games.
- Blue Force:
Same thing as with Ringworld (since it was published by the same company ). The game data consists of only one uncompressed file, but the game is basically the same as the floppy version - compressed about 8MB. The rest of the 200 MB (compressed) are just demos.