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    Default Did you ever pay for shareware?

    I think I only ever actually paid for two or three shareware games ever... God of Thunder (a really great game by the way) and Duke Nukem II are the only ones I can think of offhand. Frankly, I never had a very good attention span, so I usually got bored of the game after the trial level was finished anyways.

    How many of you guys actually "registered" your shareware?

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    Hey, if I really liked (or like) a shareware game, and play it enough, I pay for it. Why? Because I'd expect the same if I made a cool game!!!!
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    I don't think I ever paid for a shareware game for the Atari in the 80's, it's a little bit foreign to teenagers with no checking accounts or credit cards. And there was all this free stuff being traded at school at all times.

    But I've got better in the 90's, I can usually find good freeware for my PC and Linux apps but I've paid for quite a few Mac shareware programs that I like. A recent one was Richard Bannister's excellent Emulation Enhancer.

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    My other PC gaming whore friend and I used split many of the registered versions to help cut down costs. Many of those discs are missing these days, but I still have the full versions of:

    Every Commander Keen game (1-6)
    Duke Nukem
    Duke 3D
    Doom
    Rise of the Triad
    Heretic
    Hexen
    Sango Fighter
    Jill of the Jungle
    Wolf 3D and Spear of Destiny
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    Never, but I never really had that many shareware games in the first place....less than a dozen probably.

    I remember God of Thunder too....I loved it

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    The only shareware I really bought was Kali for playing networked games. Technically I paid for EGA Trek and JetPack as Wal-Mart was selling the full versions for like $5 or $10.

    Other than that, no. I played the snot out of many a shareware game but moved onto something else after I beat the levels or chapter the shareware came with.

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    The only shareware I've ever had was Doom that I borrowed from a friend so it wasn't really mine.

    The only one I remember buying was Halloween Harry (AKA Alien Carnage) for 99p. It came with the first mission pack. I was only about 11 - 12 so I couldn't have paid for it as I never had a credit card. Still a fun game though, I'd still play it to this day.

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    Just thought I'd mention that Adept software have made Jetpack and God of Thunder freeware. You can download them here.

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    I never paid for any shareware until I became a computer teacher for a private k-8 school. The school owns two labs one for k-1 and one for 2-8. The K-1 Lab only has 200mhz computers and no internet access. I am COMPLETLY reliant on Shareware. Try finding software for these antiques that don't require that the CD rom stay in the drive. Even in my other lab I use several games aquired from Popcap.com like Typer Shark.
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    Quote Originally Posted by YoshiM
    The only shareware I really bought was Kali for playing networked games. Technically I paid for EGA Trek and JetPack as Wal-Mart was selling the full versions for like $5 or $10.
    Another Kali player! I used to use it for DN3D competions and ranking on Cases' Ladder when back when.

    Did you know that they are still around and they actually have my registration on file and its still good? Once you reg, its for life so to speak

    http://www.kali.net/
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    I've bought full versions of Wolfenstein 3D (All 6 episodes for $5 years layer.), DOOM 2 (At TRU. My grandmother bought it for me. I loved DOOM 1 Demo so much, and my friend had let me borrow DOOM 2 once.) then Ultimate DOOM (DOOM with an extra episode.). As well as Heretic: Shadows of the Serpent Riders (Heretic with two extra episodes.), Hexen and Duke 3D Atomic Edition (Once again, Duke 3D with an extra Movie reference filled episode. I loved that fourth episode so much.) which I got one December because my friend let me try it. (He had the regular version.) I loved it so much.

    I loved all those games. My favorite FPS's.

    I wish I had bought Strife. I hated mail ordering, so I got all mine at TRU. But TRU didn't have Strife. So I had to live with just the demo. (How I wish, wish, wish there were some way for some one to port that to something. Damn licensing contracts. The best DOOM engine game and yet it was the last.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by YoshiM
    The only shareware I really bought was Kali for playing networked games. Technically I paid for EGA Trek and JetPack as Wal-Mart was selling the full versions for like $5 or $10.
    Wall-Mart was selling EGA Trek? Really?

    Sadly, I too never paid for shareware. All those prices are in American dollars, after all. I am sorely tempted by Moonpod's Starscape, but I have enough to play lately.

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    I thought this was something completely different. Anyone ever pay for the shareware versions of games? I don't mean registering it, I mean, you bought a disc only to find out that it was shareware? I did that more times than I can count.

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    Oh, I always knew (or almost always knew) that what I was buying was limited shareware. Back then, full games simply weren't in that price range. The fact that they were typically packaged in cheap plastic containers (if they were packaged at all) was also a big tip-off.

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    I never payed for Shareware and i will never do...!!!!!!!!!

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    Funny, the first thing that sprung to mind for me was C64 shareware. I hadn't thought of Doom or Wolfenstein at all, neither of which I consider shareware, but rather awesome demos.

    Answer to the question...NO. I had at least 200 pirated C64 games, so using (much less paying for) a non-commercial game was the furthest thing from my mind.

    Ahh youth.

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    Wolfenstein 3D was one of the few games that my dad was willing to fork out the full price for, after he got hooked on the demo. (Hasn't played another FPS since, either, unless you count Time Crisis. )

    And Jill of the Jungle - I'm glad someone else remembers that game. Well worth the five bucks. Duke Nukem was right in the same ballpark - I remember the promo screen that mentioned "graphics that blow away Nintendo or Sega".
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    I'm one of the "no's" in my childhood. My dad pirated the games and I played 'em. Paying for shareware seemed silly when you were copying the real thing anyway.

    These days, though, I do pay for it. PPC software mostly. Most recently APE for my SIO2PC cable. Of course all the shareware games that *came* on the APE disc I still haven't paid for, but I'm assuming those addresses are long out of date anyway
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    Same here. I never paid for shareware back in the day, mostly for the fact that I didn't have the means to.

    I've paid for a few things recently, including Newsbin and CDR-Win, but boy did CDR-Win (Goldenhawk) really piss me off. I bought CDR-Win about 2 1/2 years ago. I recently reloaded my laptop, and when I went to reload CDR-Win back onto it I was informed "your license has expired." Apparently when you purchase CDR-Win, you only get a valid license for 2 years. I am not embarassed to say I hit Google and found a valid serial number within a few minutes and am using that now. Seems like a bad tactic to get repeat customers.

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    Now a days I pay for other sorts of things. I've paid for DragThing, Konfabulator, TNT Basic, WindowShades X and WeatherPop Advance.

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