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The Return Of Shareware Games
An anonymous reader writes "CNN has a new column up looking at the re-emerging trend of shareware as a means to distribute games. With development prices soaring and space on retail shelves getting scarce, smaller companies like PopCap Games and GarageGames are returning to gaming's roots - and making money in the process."
Wow, people aren't just cracking them like we used to do?
Do you mean addictive, or slimming?
"I am just fine with the games that come with KDE. Not only can they entertain you, they may also build some intelligence. "
Secretly, he regrets switching from Windows...
"Derp de derp."
Wow, i wonder if Duke Nukem Forever will be shareware?
"I'm not high, just stupid" --JY
Who's going to tell us how many polygons there are in the game? The lighting? The realistic physics?
What about all the anti-piracy warnings?
This'll never work!
Now all of their money will be going into paying for extra bandwidth...
"Please be patient and try again in a few moments.
GarageGames.com is currently experiencing an extremely high volume of traffic. Your patience is greatly appreciated.
--GarageGames"
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
I tried to play TIM on my Athlon 2600 system not long ago. The game wasn't designed for fast machihnes, unfortunately. You click "Go", the screen blurs, and your machine is lying in pieces at your feet. Not a chance in hell to see what actually went on.
It's a pity, cause I agree that game was great.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
are you proposing that saved game file formats be open as well? :)
hrm, would make cheating easier i suppose
er i mean, would make it easier to transfer characters between games
We'll get to play great games like Commander Keen once again?
"Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
That is a ridiculous scheme, doomed to failiure. I quake thinking some might want to do as "unsucessful" as Commander Keen!
-- MG
Where o where is my ware to share?
Care to share where is the fair ware, if you dare?
This affair makes me beware of ware that is mostly air,
but I sit and stare, in my chair in my lair, at my monitor's glare,
and still I prepare a fare to pay for this wair,
but I am starting to wear of the blare
(the blare that this ware may really be brought to bear),
and now I swear that were this ware that is their care to share be in my very lair (though that would be rare),
even then, I would despair to declare that the ware is there,
for I really know that the ware will ne'er be, whether by share, or even prayer,
and that is most unfair to me, if I may dare to declare.
Schnapple
And that, by the way, is the first time my cat has ever stepped on my keyboard and successfully posted to Slashdot.
Schnapple
Playing UT taught me that I hate teenagers. I'm amazed that more parents don't eat their young.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
Don't worry. I don't think that statement will ever be mistaken for an insult.
No, you're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak. Do your research. Id Software can be
thanked for bastardising the term the worst. That is NOT shareware in it's true sense. If you're so confident, then fine, name *2* titles released BEFORE 1990 that were sold as "shareware" where you got your mythical 1/3rd free.
You don't know what you're talking about.
between work, beach and going out
You're lying.
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I really liked Snood, in that it was a good twist on the bubble bobble / naname de magic / puzzle de pon / etc etc etc theme. Since I played it quite a bit, I would have registered it.
But, every 10 games or so it slowly prints up a little 4-line poem telling you to register it. Stuff like:
Dave's kids need clothes
Dave's kids need food
Dave's kids need college
So register Snood!
And, man, I REALLY REALLY don't give a shit about Dave's kids and their various needs. It actually makes me want to contact the author, offer him words of encouragement and interesting feedback, gain his trust, find out where he lives, and go round there one night and kill his kids and cut their heads off and sew the heads back onto the wrong bodies and leave the bodies in the living room propped up in lifelike positions.
I have a very low tolerance for doggerel, kids, people going on and on about their families, and nagware, and all these things seem to combine in Snood
P.S. Yes I am a grouch.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.