Shareware: Difference between revisions

[[Shareware]] is intended to get distribution by way of [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|players sharing it with each other]] via whatever means they feel like. That almost always means the internet now, but [[Older Than the NES|in ancient times]], this took the form of telephone BBS networks, a prototype of today's [[Fora]], or more often that of people actually copying the games onto floppies or cassettes and physically handing them to their friends (a process jokingly referred to as 'Sneaker-net' by many computer users). Since shareware games are often quite compact compared to other games, another way they would sometimes see distribution (especially once CD-ROMs caught on) was in the form of physical media sold at stores or in computer magazines for a nominal fee, which included large numbers of shareware games in much the same manner as a digest or compilation.