Re: [SWCollect] Shareware collection

[Dan Chisarick]

	While I don't have any shareware in my collection (OK, I have the pile 
of DOOM levels but that's it) you do raise an interesting point.  Some 
commercial games have been re-released as shareware (most notably 
through magazines that had optional disk subscriptions and certain 
computer clubs).  Just one more variant for the obsessed.  Hmm, there's 
also that stack of OMEGA tanks and maps, so I guess I have some.

On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 06:07  PM, C.E. Forman wrote:

Same here.  I have a few adventure shareware CD-ROMs that look 
commercial,
and some 3.5" floppy disks in paperboard pouches (Jungle of Doom, the 
Hugo
series, etc).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:49 PM
Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Shareware collection

The only shareware I actually pick up are the "published" versions of
shareware games (you could get these in stores).  Like all of the
Apogee/id
stuff published by Wiz technology.

Hugh

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee K. Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:44 AM
To: Software Collecting
Subject: [SWCollect] Shareware collection
Okay, you've all got shelves and shelves full of boxed games and such.
What about shareware?  Do you have CD-Rs full of zip files?  What
about those oh-so-prevalent disks published by people hoping to make a
quick buck by providing the service of making shareware available in
retail outlets?  (You remember.  Back before most people had heard of
the Internet.)
What about custom-made add-ons for commercial games?  (All those
homebrew Doom levels and such.)  I tend to stay behind the curve on
what's popular in games, so I sometimes download stuff that I know I
won't play until no one else is playing any more.
I'm just curious because I need to start my own project of copying
these floppy disks that are cluttering up the place to CD.  (These are
mostly disks I created myself from BBS and Internet downloads.
Remember the WU Archive FTP site?)
Also, I recently came across a message I posted to Usenet some years
ago.  It mentioned a playable demo of Empire Deluxe.  I don't recall
ever successfully finding such a thing.  Anybody happen to have a
copy, just to satisfy my curiosity?
--
Lee K. Seitz
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