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In the early 1990s, shareware distribution was a popular method of publishing games for smaller developers, including then-fledgling companies such as Apogee Software ( now 3D Realms ), Epic Megagames ( now Epic Games ), and id Software.
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In the early 1990s, the latter group blamed Armenia's economic woes on the role played by the former in closing major industries.
Newly independent Armenia needed the income from foreign sales of Nairit rubber and chemical products, many of which had been assigned exclusively to that plant under the Soviet system and were still unavailable elsewhere to the former Soviet republics in the early 1990s.
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The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.
Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.
Axenthof Thiad originated in the early 1990s as the Fresena Thiad and part of the Winland Rice.
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Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or packet radio connection.
Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.
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BBS which had early roots from the Colossus BBS started by the author of the popular shareware communications program Qmodem.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, shareware software was widely distributed over bulletin board systems globally and on diskettes ( and, subsequently, CD-ROMs ) by commercial shareware distributors who produced catalogs describing thousands of public domain and shareware programs.
In the early 1990s, shareware distribution was a popular method of publishing games for smaller developers, including then-fledgling companies such as Apogee Software ( now 3D Realms ), Epic Megagames ( now Epic Games ), and id Software.
As a result, in the early 21st century, the term shareware was being used less, replaced by either demo for trial software or freeware for full editions.
Although poor-quality collections existed at least as far back as the BBS era, the term " shovelware " became commonly used in the early 1990s to describe early CD-ROMs such as collections of shareware or public domain software.
Cello was an early shareware 16-bit multipurpose web browser for Windows 3. 1 developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
Draco was a shareware programming language for CP / M and the Amiga, created by Chris Gray in the early 1980s, and discontinued sometime around 1990.
A few months later ( early 1983 ), Bob Wallace followed suit, coining the term " shareware " for his similarly marketed product, PC-Write, a word processor.
While Quicksoft distributed copies of PC-Write for $ 10, the company encouraged users to make copies of the program for others in an early example of shareware.
Examples of flat-file database products were early versions of FileMaker and the shareware PC-File.
The only well-released game to their credit was Zone 66, a shareware top-down shooter game, published by Epic MegaGames in early 1993.
Up to the early 1990s, shareware could easily be upgraded to the full version by adding the " other episodes " or full portion of the game ; this would leave the existing shareware files intact.
Moraff's World is the second of three in a series of roguelike shareware video games produced by Steve Moraff in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Walnut Creek CDROM ( of Walnut Creek, California ) was an early provider of freeware, shareware and free software on CD-ROMs.
In the early years, some of the most popular products were Simtel shareware for MS-DOS, CICA Shareware for Microsoft Windows ( now the Sunny A archives ), and the Aminet archives for the Amiga.
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Land distribution early in the Paleozoic, around 500 Ma
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