In an attempt to get the shop out of debt, Cyb takes a dive into the wonders of the shareware world. An (arguably surface level) look at the brief history of free software and games.
Sources and Things:
Shareware CD Archive: https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
PC-Talk Article: https://books.google.ca/books?id=WYnHD9WSWdAC&pg=PA143&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Kotaku article on Shareware: https://kotaku.com/a-history-of-shareware-demos-and-covertapes-1846548421
Norton article on types of shareware: https://us.norton.com/blog/emerging-threats/shareware
History of Open Source: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/brief-history-of-open-source/
HowToGeek Shareware article: https://www.howtogeek.com/728527/what-is-shareware-and-why-was-it-so-popular-in-the-1990s/
RadioShack catalogue archive: https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
Article on Game Demos: https://entertainment.ie/gaming/what-happened-to-the-video-game-demo-525745
Remembering Andrew Fluegelman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUkDNjKM270
Sonic Colors Ultimate glitches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOKud5JHDA
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The Wonderfully Wacky World of Shareware