#shareware — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

Heyo all.
Regarding retro gaming again, some of my favorite ones were for ms dos. These include shareware only games too! So, some of them were Mechwarrior 2, I spent more time customizing mechs than actually playing the game, and would often listen to soundtrack on a cd player too!

Other ms dos games of note, include wolfenstein 3d, I made levels and edited sprites in that game as a kid.

Doom of course too, fooled around with modding for it briefly and now I just play levels i find on doomworld and zdoom sites.

Stunts, a fun racing game where you could make your own courses. So much fun!

Quake, also endless levels and modding.

Monuments of mars, fun little 2d platformer.

Descent 1 and 2, great 6 degrees of freedom shooter. Played it online against friends a lot.

Duke nukem 3d. Infamous, but the level editing for it was so easy to do and game itself was pretty fun, especially playing with and against friends online!

Commander keen. Fun little platformer as well.

Skyroads. Great f zero style game!

Corncob 3d. Fun flight sim, you could even get out of the plane and walk wherever on foot.

MegatronVGA. Mech game where you fought mechs in a maze.

Sango fighter, fun street fighter clone.

One must fall 2097, great street fighter clone with awesome music.

Epic pinball, fun pinball game!

Lemmings, great puzzle game.

Stellar 7 and nova 9, battlezone style games that actually had a plot and powerups you could activate and hidden warps and other fun things.

I played all these games and more on a Radio Shack Tandy 1000. Great machine!

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

back in the early pandemic, with way more time spent in my apartment than was healthy, i decided to run a solo podcast about 90s gaming on the Macintosh, Windows 3.1, and MS-DOS. my aim was introducing a level of technical and historical detail not often found on general audience video game podcasts.

each episode took 10-20 hours of research and writing to explore in depth. i tried to pick less popular games that hadn't been talked about much, were underrated, or fascinating from a programming perspective.

in 2022 we moved, i began new programming projects, and the podcast went on the shelf. i always meant to get back to it, and received many e-mails about future episodes.

today i'm relaunching the podcast.

website link:
https://podcast.vga256.com

rss link:
http://podcast.vga256.com/rss.xml

apple podcasts link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/multimedia-hyperguide-windows-3-1-macintosh-and-ms/id1393890581

feedburner link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MultimediaHyperguide

while i write the next episode, please enjoy some of the earlier episodes, including everyone's beloved SimAnt (episodes 14 and 15).

here are some box and browsies shots of SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony (Maxis, 1991) for 16-bit windows. i use the physical boxes and their documentation during research and writing. this has a 150+ page manual, which is 50% ant science!

#dosGaming #msdos #ants #vintageApple #macintosh #shareware #podcast

Peter Cartwright, creator of Classic Mac game EV Override has passed. Override was the game that first showed me that you could fit a whole world in one of these 'game' things. I probably only spent a few summer hours inside actually playing the original Override in the Mac lab, but it made a powerful impression that lasts to this day. Thanks PAC. #retrocomputing #vintageapple #shareware

my first retrocomputing local pickup of 2026: an Apple Newton MessagePad 120.

almost passed on this one, as i'm more interested in an MP2100. but the seller's photo showed that it was running NewtonOS 2.0, which meant that it is an apple-upgraded MP120 with an 8MB ROM.

this is a rather huge upgrade, because it provides the exceptional Rosetta handwriting recognition (and mercifully puts an end to the lame simpsons meme)

thanks lunar. i *will* remember my shareware feel!

#newton #vintageApple #retroComputing #vintageComputing #shareware

Made a post-jam slightly updated version of Space Cats with redefinable keys and joystick support, among other things. Thanks to my nephew Ed for finding a glaring bug no one had yet spotted (you could fly through the doors in level 3 without keys! Wrong wall tiles, bah)

https://crussel.itch.io/attack-of-the-space-cats/devlog/1278732/post-jam-slightly-updated-version

#DOSember #shareware #dosgames

Happy Holidays! On Monday evening, I streamed a couple of Christmas-themed Shareware CDs. Hardly any of it worked, but it was a ton of fun regardless. If you have a few hours to kill and want to see me corpsing at an alarmingly squelchy MIDI, please enjoy: https://www.twitch.tv/lunarloony/v/2650488006?sr=a&t=1795s

#twitch #stream #vod #christmas #shareware

The "golden age" of indie software is as relevant today as floppy disks and physical cheques! 🙄 Apparently, coding isn't just about writing lines of code anymore—who knew? 🤔 The #nostalgia for the '80s, when #shareware was king and cheques reigned supreme, is downright touching... if you’re into that sort of archaic charm. 💾✉️
https://successfulsoftware.net/2025/12/22/is-the-golden-age-of-indie-software-over/ #indieSoftware #floppyDisks #codingCulture #HackerNews #ngated

Commander Keen - Le code source enfin libéré pour les 35 ans du jeu qui a lancé id Software

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/commander-keen-code-source-release-id-software.html

25 years later i still find Avernum's character portrait artwork charming and unpretentious

it has that Photoshop 3.0 look - 256 colours with pillow-shaded tones and default brush softness

now that tools and styles have moved towards hyper-accuracy and realism, no one really does this style of digital art anymore

#art #1990s #shareware #retroGaming

Guten Morgen zusammen,
wünsche euch einen tollen und #stressfreien #Samstag
Heute ist u.a. #Tag der #Shareware
Passt auf euch auf und seid #achtsam

Jake Kaufman – Ultionus: A Soundtrack of Petty Revenge
#16bit #DOS #Electronic #FM #OPL3 #VGA #chiptune #chiptunes #gamemusic #hairmetal #novelty #retro #shareware #LosAngeles
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://virt.bandcamp.com/album/ultionus-a-soundtrack-of-petty-revenge