I have decided that the reason I am inclined to software piracy is that I was raised in the era of Shareware. I hear it still exists, but not in the form it did as I was a budding computer user when there would be dudes at expos and little boxes at Radio Shack and even 4.25x11 newsprint catalogs mailed to your house selling one or three 3.5" floppies attached together with a cardboard band carrying an entire game for a dollar fifty. You could even get them free from bbs's, but that, I thought, lacked the charm.
Some of my dearest computer related memories are Shareware. Hexxagon. Blake Stone. Jazz Jackrabbit. Epic Pinball. Castle of the Winds.
Mindburst Hickocks is, minus the occasional deviation from form, a repository of ideas I have had but could not find a use for. They are free for you to take and run with. In fact, please do.
Also, we now feature assignments.
Also, we now feature assignments.
10.17.2010
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-Jason Michelitch
Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen, Xargon, and lots of themed clipart diskettes.
ReplyDeleteCastle of the Winds still manages to waste a weekend for me every now and then...
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Castle of the Winds.
ReplyDeleteCommander Keen was way beyond me, though.