The Shareware Revolution: How Free Trials Paved the Way for Modern PC Gaming
The Origins of Shareware in PC Gaming The concept of shareware has its roots in the early 1980s, with a pivotal figure named Andrew Fluegelman who pioneered a novel distribution model for his communications program, PC-Talk. Fluegelman’s approach was simple yet revolutionary: he would send a copy of PC-Talk on a formatted floppy disk to […]