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My Amiga is crying, Fred Fish is Dead

djrock3k — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:36:01 -0800

Fred Fish Passed away April 20, 2007 If you were an Amigan, Fred Fish was well known to you. Responsible for the definitive archive of Amiga Freeware, Fred was the Santa Claus of software, his disks containing a selection of everything available for the Amiga at the time. Fish Disks inspired many an Amigan to purchase a modem and log on for all night bbs downloads of the vast selection available. Thanks and Rest in Peace Fred.

Home of the Underdogs

Hildago — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:32:00 -0800

"Home of the Underdogs is a non-profit site dedicated to the preservation and promotion of underrated PC games (and a few non-PC games) of all ages: good games that deserve a second chance after dismal sales or critical reviews that we feel are unwarranted."

Rippin' And Scrappin'

wigu — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:50:47 -0800

Tivo for Webcomics? Found by way of Comixpedia, this Sun-Times article finds shareware that rips comic files off the web to be something of a God-send. As a web-comic creator, I have no problem with my readers writing personal scripts that pull the .pngs from my front page. But when the rippers begin asking for money for their app that distributes someone else's content (without asking the creators' permission), it seems as though somewhere, there are some enormous balls just a'swingin' in the breeze.

BullFighter

serafinapekkala — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:02:36 -0800

BullFighter is shareware that flags corporate jargon, like "mission critical asset foregrounding" and "value-added paradigm shift," in Word documents. Who developed it? Deloitte Consulting. Will wonders (or gimmicks) never cease?

jackspace — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:55:00 -0800

Originator of term "Shareware" Dies
Bob Wallace, was born in Washington, D.C. in 1949, the author of PC-WRITE, and one of three persons credited with coining the term "Shareware" was found dead at his Northern California home on Friday, September 20th, 2002. In 1978, Bob joined Microsoft (the company that wrote MS DOS for IBM) when the company had only ten employees. He was employee number 9. Five years later, Bob decided to break with Microsoft (which by then had grown to company of over 300 employees) and establish his own company: Quicksoft. Among Quicksoft's innovations in software design and marketing was the "shareware" concept. Cause of death was determined to be pneumonia.

waldo — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:41:44 -0800

Stolen: Hundreds of Flash Games. Shareware game developer CleverMedia is pissed; the French website flash-game.net has stolen many of their games and is passing them off as their own, along with hundreds of others. Developers like Sega, Shockwave.com, Octopi.com, FlashArcade.com...all ripped off. flash-game.net has simply ignored the e-mails demanding that the games be removed. Do you see any of your games on their site?

riffola — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:10:14 -0800

Moodstats the latest offering by the mighty K10K is finally available. The program is a shareware, a serial costs $15, but does it also cost K10K their anti-commercial attitude?

rschram — Thu, 03 May 2001 13:57:17 -0800

MS VP Challenges GPL on Moral Grounds In Speech
Admitting that the company is feeling pressure from open source, free alternatives, Microsoft's Craig Mundie, lecturing at NYU, will speak out against G.P.L., which he considers impractical, dangerous and morally wrong. Stallman is quoted as saying something ludicrously funny about the American revolution.

jhiggy — Wed, 02 May 2001 08:14:35 -0800

Forbes.com suggests you IT people use shareware or freeware office packages instead of that expensive Microsoft stuff.

Dean_Paxton — Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:41:37 -0800

c|net buys ZD I guess the bright side is, now Download.com's archives will be combined with ZDNet's, as well as shareware.com.

cheaily — Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:34:24 -0800

Windows users rejoice! Finally, a program for Windows 9x that does the same as Kalidoscope... and it works well.

wendell — Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:16:20 -0800

Stephen King's scariest idea yet - A Shareware Novel?