Knee-Deep in the Dead, the first episode and the only one in the shareware version, is set in the high-tech military bases, power plants, computer centers and geological anomalies on Phobos.

Although most users did not purchase the registered version, over one million copies have been sold, and the popularity helped the sales of later games in the Doom series that were not released as shareware.

The full version was released for the PC ( the shareware version was released on January 29, 1996 ).

Software classified as freeware is licensed at no cost and is either fully functional for an unlimited time ; or has only basic functions enabled with a fully functional version available commercially or as shareware.

The shareware version of a console port for Dreamcast was also released.

* Sensiva ( shareware, has disappeared ; last version ( 3. 14 ) can still be found around the Internet )

Paint Shop was originally distributed as shareware and is still available at many download sites ( 4. 12 being a popular version ).

Episode I ( which formed the shareware or downloadable demo version of Quake ) has the most traditional ideology of a boss in the last level.

Taradino Cassatt is the only character available in the shareware version of the game and has average statistics: good health, good speed, good accuracy.

There was also a " Deluxe Edition " of the shareware version, marketed in retail by LaserSoft, which contains 3 extra levels, and 3 extra multiplayer levels that are not available on any other version.

The rationale behind shareware is to give buyers the opportunity to use the program and judge its usefulness before purchasing a license for the full version of the software.

The words " free trial " or " trial version " are indicative of shareware.

Shareware episodes most commonly offered 1 / 3 or 1 / 2 of the entire registered version, and many even offered the entire product as shareware with no additional content for registered users.

Under the Apogee version of the shareware model ( the " Apogee Model "), the first episode of a series was usually available as shareware.

The shareware version appeared on Fred Fish Disks 58 and 241.

The shareware demonstration version of the game noted that the Gravis Gamepad was the official gamepad of Jazz Jackrabbit.

* 1997 — Microsoft FrontPage Express 2. 0 ( free stripped-down version came with Internet Explorer 4 and 5, and could be found online from numerous shareware Web sites

Later, after FTL ceased operations, an updated authorized shareware version of Oids for the Macintosh was developed and released by Kirk Baker.

Unlike Wolfenstein 3D, the game did not include a shareware version ; however, a 2-level playable demo was distributed.

In 1. 5, the registration feature was removed and instead, only a shareware version was released freely while the registered version could only be obtained through a mail order.

This was part of their agreement with Interplay for the latter's purchase of the rights to Descent, and Apogee decided to release FreeSpace as shareware, with themselves as the merchant of the registered version.

While the first Descent had been released as shareware with 7 levels, Descent II was released as a shorter 3 level demo.

A good example is the Descent shareware versus the Descent II demo ; players were able to retain their saved games on the former but not the latter.

Much of the shareware movement was started via user distribution of software through BBSes.

With one third of the game ( 9 levels ) distributed as shareware, Doom was played by an estimated 10 million people within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture ; as a sign of its effect on the industry, games from the mid-1990s boom of first-person shooters are often known simply as " Doom clones ".

Doom was released as shareware, with people encouraged to distribute it further.

The original edition of Heretic was only available through shareware registration ( i. e. mail order ) and contains three episodes.

On December 14, 1990, the first episode was released as shareware by Miller's company, Apogee, and orders began rolling in.

The shareware distribution method was initially employed by Id Software through Apogee Software to sell their products, such as the Commander Keen, Wolfenstein and Doom games.

He was let go before the shareware release of Doom and then went to work for Apogee, developing Rise of the Triad with the " Developers of Incredible Power ".

As most Apogee games, the game was distributed as shareware, with the first episode released for free.

Public domain is a misnomer for shareware, and Freeware was trademarked by Fluegelman and could not be used legally by others, and User-Supported Software was too cumbersome.

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.

At first, disk space on a server was hard to come by, so networks of mirror sites like Info-Mac, containing large shareware libraries were developed, accessible via the web or ftp.

This erased one of the chief distinctions of shareware, as it was now most often downloaded from a central " official " location instead of being shared samizdat-style by its users.

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.

At PC expositions, extant today, shareware was essentially free ; the cost only covered the disk and minimal packaging.

In the 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, shareware was considered to be a concept for independent software writers to receive a degree of remuneration for their labor.

However, after that the shareware model began to degrade as the term was used by commercial startups offering ( sometimes substandard ) commercial software and labeling non-functional or limited demo versions ( termed crippleware ) as shareware.

There were several dozen other BBS programs developed over the DOS era, and many were released under the shareware concept, while some were released as freeware including iniquity.

The game is composed of two parts: A Question of Vengeance, released as shareware, and Lifthransir's Bane, sold commercially.

* Trans-Tex Software has released shareware versions for Classic Mac OS and: Trans-Tex Software

They were released as shareware titles for Macintosh and Windows systems.

They were identical to the released shareware packs, except that a shareware company back then named Lasersoft paid Apogee to design 6 exclusive levels for their shareware release of the game.

" Marooned on Mars " ( first released as shareware on December 14, 1990 )

" Secret of the Oracle " ( first released as shareware on December 15, 1991 )

This game was released as shareware and contained gameplay improvements over the original.

The original TADS 1 was released by High Energy Software as shareware in 1988, and was followed by TADS 2 not long after.

It was the only game in the series that was released as shareware.

Originally distributed as shareware, 4DOS has been later released as unsupported freeware.