There are many definitions to play with, and few hard lines to draw. The poster-children of ’90s shareware, id Software (who you may know courtesy of a little game called Doom), began working ...

Not many players did, but that didn’t stop the game makers. Eventually, the shareware method became more refined, offering a free episode as a trial with the promise of more episodes upon payment.

Hence shareware came into existence, and emerged as a popular model to launch software during the 90s, which is also behind successful products we use today. Shareware is different from freeware ...

With peace of mind established—and with an emulator that kept stuttering to a minimum and offered perks like full sound emulation—Scott got to work "dumping Windows shareware CD-ROMs for a while." ...

Kagi arose in the 1990s on the popularity of shareware, which allowed developers to widely distribute their software with time or feature limits as trial versions and then offer unlock codes for a ...

Terms such as Freeware, Free software, Open source, Shareware, Trialware, Adware, Nagware, etc are often used to define programs. Does one really know the difference between freeware and free ...

There are still some issues about software distribution to be worked through, however—particularly when it comes to shareware. Just to recap last week’s happenings, Apple plans a June release ...

And while I did play popular commercial releases from publishers like Apogee and Epic, I mostly played shareware releases. Today, we're going to look at some gems of that lost era. My parents ...