Shareware Heroes av Richard Moss

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<span><p><span>Shareware Heroes</span><span> is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game history</span></p><p><span>Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet</span><span> takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware''s major players – the likes of id Software, Apogee, and Epic MegaGames – through to the significance of shareware for the ‘forgotten’ systems – the Mac, Atari ST, Amiga – when commercial game publishers turned away from them.</span></p><span>This book also charts the emergence of commercial shareware distributors like Educorp and the BBS/newsgroup sharing culture. And it explores how shareware developers plugged gaps in the video gaming market by creating games in niche and neglected genres like vertical