#shareware — Public Fediverse posts

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Bin mal wieder langsamer als ich's gern wäre, aber so langsam mache ich doch Fortschritte beim Einscannen und Archivieren der BHV Playware Booklets. Für billige Shareware aus 1993 sind alle drei doch ziemlich gut erhalten. 😃

Download-Links gibt's in Kürze!

#RetroGaming #Shareware #90er #90s #BHV #Playware #Disketten #FloppyDisk #Retro #Gaming #Windows #PCGaming

Kun nyt menneen maailman ohjelmista tuli toisessa säikeessä puhe, minun on aina silloin tällöin tullut ikävä #QEdit'iä, #PCFile'ä ja #PCWrite'ä (oikea kirjoitusasu ”PC-Write”, mutta tunniste katkeaa yhdysmerkistä). Yksinkertaisempia mutta tuottoisia aikoja. #atkjuttuja #nostalgia #shareware

Kun nyt menneen maailman ohjelmista tuli toisessa säikeessä puhe, minun on aina silloin tällöin tullut ikävä #QEdit'iä, #PCFile'ä ja #PCWrite'ä (oikea kirjoitusasu ”PC-Write”, mutta tunniste katkeaa yhdysmerkistä). Yksinkertaisempia mutta tuottoisia aikoja. #atkjuttuja #nostalgia #shareware

Kun nyt menneen maailman ohjelmista tuli toisessa säikeessä puhe, minun on aina silloin tällöin tullut ikävä #QEdit'iä, #PCFile'ä ja #PCWrite'ä (oikea kirjoitusasu ”PC-Write”, mutta tunniste katkeaa yhdysmerkistä). Yksinkertaisempia mutta tuottoisia aikoja. #atkjuttuja #nostalgia #shareware

Kun nyt menneen maailman ohjelmista tuli toisessa säikeessä puhe, minun on aina silloin tällöin tullut ikävä #QEdit'iä, #PCFile'ä ja #PCWrite'ä (oikea kirjoitusasu ”PC-Write”, mutta tunniste katkeaa yhdysmerkistä). Yksinkertaisempia mutta tuottoisia aikoja. #atkjuttuja #nostalgia #shareware

Kun nyt menneen maailman ohjelmista tuli toisessa säikeessä puhe, minun on aina silloin tällöin tullut ikävä #QEdit'iä, #PCFile'ä ja #PCWrite'ä (oikea kirjoitusasu ”PC-Write”, mutta tunniste katkeaa yhdysmerkistä). Yksinkertaisempia mutta tuottoisia aikoja. #atkjuttuja #nostalgia #shareware

ICYMI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

Je sais que la comparaison est boiteuse mais le timing des deux nouvelles m'a inspiré ce petit #meme avec #microsoft et #linux . 🪟 🐧

Et je me rappelle que la sortie du processeur #Intel486 remonte à bien des lustres (1989) mais ce que je ne savais pas, c'est qu'il était encore produit jusqu'en 2007... ça reste impressionnant, considérant les avancés technologiques des processeurs.

Bonne nuit, prince du MS-DOS et des multiples jeux #shareware que j'ai jamais acheté. 😉

Fait avec #memerist

Je sais que la comparaison est boiteuse mais le timing des deux nouvelles m'a inspiré ce petit #meme avec #microsoft et #linux . 🪟 🐧

Et je me rappelle que la sortie du processeur #Intel486 remonte à bien des lustres (1989) mais ce que je ne savais pas, c'est qu'il était encore produit jusqu'en 2007... ça reste impressionnant, considérant les avancés technologiques des processeurs.

Bonne nuit, prince du MS-DOS et des multiples jeux #shareware que j'ai jamais acheté. 😉

Fait avec #memerist

Je sais que la comparaison est boiteuse mais le timing des deux nouvelles m'a inspiré ce petit #meme avec #microsoft et #linux . 🪟 🐧

Et je me rappelle que la sortie du processeur #Intel486 remonte à bien des lustres (1989) mais ce que je ne savais pas, c'est qu'il était encore produit jusqu'en 2007... ça reste impressionnant, considérant les avancés technologiques des processeurs.

Bonne nuit, prince du MS-DOS et des multiples jeux #shareware que j'ai jamais acheté. 😉

Fait avec #memerist

Je sais que la comparaison est boiteuse mais le timing des deux nouvelles m'a inspiré ce petit #meme avec #microsoft et #linux . 🪟 🐧

Et je me rappelle que la sortie du processeur #Intel486 remonte à bien des lustres (1989) mais ce que je ne savais pas, c'est qu'il était encore produit jusqu'en 2007... ça reste impressionnant, considérant les avancés technologiques des processeurs.

Bonne nuit, prince du MS-DOS et des multiples jeux #shareware que j'ai jamais acheté. 😉

Fait avec #memerist

ms-dos vga hi-res mode shareware perfection: Bert's Dinosaurs

not only did coder figure out how to draw in the underused 640x480 16 colour mode, but they also figured out how to destroy the pc speaker with their kid's digitized voice 👏

https://archive.org/details/msdos_BERTDINO_shareware

#msdos #dosGaming #retroGaming #shareware #dinosaurs

Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

new .plan post: doing a computing science degree the hard way, or how Tim Cain saved the day

want to learn how a programmer's lack of experience with a specific kind of computing science problem leads to a year-long rut in building software? i wrote about how Exigy got the ability to save and load, because I refused to take a CS course in Data Structures.

https://exigy.org/plan?sort=new&#2026-04-16

#gamedev #programming #lua #exigy #shareware

new .plan post: doing a computing science degree the hard way, or how Tim Cain saved the day

want to learn how a programmer's lack of experience with a specific kind of computing science problem leads to a year-long rut in building software? i wrote about how Exigy got the ability to save and load, because I refused to take a CS course in Data Structures.

https://exigy.org/plan?sort=new&#2026-04-16

#gamedev #programming #lua #exigy #shareware

new .plan post: doing a computing science degree the hard way, or how Tim Cain saved the day

want to learn how a programmer's lack of experience with a specific kind of computing science problem leads to a year-long rut in building software? i wrote about how Exigy got the ability to save and load, because I refused to take a CS course in Data Structures.

https://exigy.org/plan?sort=new&#2026-04-16

#gamedev #programming #lua #exigy #shareware

new .plan post: doing a computing science degree the hard way, or how Tim Cain saved the day

want to learn how a programmer's lack of experience with a specific kind of computing science problem leads to a year-long rut in building software? i wrote about how Exigy got the ability to save and load, because I refused to take a CS course in Data Structures.

https://exigy.org/plan?sort=new&#2026-04-16

#gamedev #programming #lua #exigy #shareware

new .plan post: doing a computing science degree the hard way, or how Tim Cain saved the day

want to learn how a programmer's lack of experience with a specific kind of computing science problem leads to a year-long rut in building software? i wrote about how Exigy got the ability to save and load, because I refused to take a CS course in Data Structures.

https://exigy.org/plan?sort=new&#2026-04-16

#gamedev #programming #lua #exigy #shareware

woooo time for a kiki update. this one is a bugfix release that corrects two super annoying problems with RSS feed generation.

while we all love RSS, it has to be one of the most finicky protocols to actually write code for 😅. every client seems to have its own quirks. so here's my attempt at keeping the protocol alive and happy:

- RSS feeds now show the correct pubdate time because it now takes timezone into consideration, and then converts your timezone to GMT.

- under very weird and unknown conditions, incorrect rss URLs were being generated. While I couldn't reproduce the exact cause (I suspect it was due to robots scraping kiki instances and the PHP server not generating browser variables for them), I was able to eliminate the bug with a small change to how URLs are generated.

thank you to kiki oper @kickingk for catching both of these bugs.

and if you're new to kiki, this is your invitation to join the kiki club!

there is a free shareware version here for those who want to get their toes wet with building their own little blog, and a paid registered version for folks who want to dive straight in :D
https://tomotama.itch.io/kiki/

#kiki #patch #shareware #php #smolweb #indieWeb #rss

FYI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

Is @kagihq the same #Kagi that used to do #shareware registrations?

ICYMI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

Waiting for kickoff… ⏳🏈

Go wayback & play FOOTBALL FOR WINDOWS (Windows 3.1, 1994), made by an ex-college player.

You're the Coach. Pressure's on 😬

📋 Call the plays & try not to blow it as the clock runs out! ⏱️

Preserved and emulated in the browser ➡️ https://archive.org/details/FOOTFW

#SuperBowl #RetroGaming #Shareware #football

til: one of the freeware macintosh games i played a LOT as a kid on a mac plus was created by one of the Backblaze founders: Continuum

even better, he self-curates his own continuum page with the original source code in C, assets, game editor, and Q&A/post-mortems

https://www.ski-epic.com/continuum_downloads/

#shareware #macintosh #vintageApple #retroGaming