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Why Port To PC? Shareware Still alive!

Posted by timothy on from the postcardware-is-the-nicest-form dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here is an interesting interview with Tom Anthony, describing why Ambrosia Software are porting their Mac games to the PC market. Do you think their games can really sell after being ported? I thought shareware was dead, but all their games are still using shareware as well."

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  1. ughh porting by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 0, Troll

    don't port ever again people! write to a common application layer like .NET/mono. mono runs on the mac/bsd today! all your .NET games should run across linux/gtk#, OSX and microsoft operating systems (not including Windows 95 or earlier - and 98 and ME implementations are a bit buggy frankly - but otherwise you're OK to roll). microsoft is my friend ;^)

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    Before adopting WHATWG, read the moonlight.NET EULA [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx]
    1. Re:ughh porting by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 0, Troll

      so your real name is dolphinuser? or is that just a crazy aquatic sexual thing? you will go to nail (thats a jail reimplemented in .NET BTW)

      hmmmm

      I am doing this as a parody for a couple of days only - its funny - i already have a fan! - laugh

      look my smile has a pointy nose so my ruse is clear :^)

      --
      Before adopting WHATWG, read the moonlight.NET EULA [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx]
  2. Not sure if this is a good idea by mrseigen · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shareware is a great thing on the Mac platform, it's nice and profitable, and I've heard from people that write shareware for Windows. The thing that keeps me from doing so is the piracy issue. Piracy rates are extremely high on the Windows side (and to be honest, pretty high on the Mac side too but only over a few users), and I'm sure the only thing that keeps shareware profitable is the fact that most of those pirates are pimply preteens who want to play the latest release of Grand Theft Auto: Inner Qwghlm or whatever.

    Then again, those kinds of idiots don't download and play shareware games either (because they're not "big name" entertainment), so who needs 'em?

  3. Total Commander by rela · · Score: 0, Troll
    Total Commander, formerly Windows Commander, is the first program I install on any windows machine. File manager, archive manager, FTP client, network client, command lines built in, and more and more, all in a very cofigurable, plugin ready dual-pane interface.

    It's shareware. I bought personal license #41662. :)