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    7 months ago

    shareware - I mean they probably didn’t make much money.

    But apogee, epic, id all came fom releasing shareware initially.
    but also nethack and all that stuff.

    I can’t really remeber how it worked, but i think you got these bundles of paper stapled pamphlets for free with hundreds of shareware packages listed with a few lines of text describing each one.

    If you didn’t have BBS, you sent a real mail back to a distributor and they send you disks in the post ffor a fairly small charge.

    Some shareware was so good the magazines had to cover it (for example, doom)

    Also i think there just werent as many big budget titles back then (on PC),
    Consoles probably had most of the money.
    elite 2 was massive, but still only 1 bloke i think.