Bob Wallace: pionero del shareware

Un 29 de mayo de 1949 nació Bob Wallace, recordado como el noveno empleado de Microsoft y creador de PC-Write, uno de los programas que ayudó a popularizar el modelo shareware.

Su idea fue simple pero revolucionaria: permitir que los usuarios probaran el software antes de pagar por él. Una visión que democratizó el acceso a las herramientas digitales y dejó huella en la historia del retrocomputing.

#BobWallace #Microsoft #shareware #pcwrite

Das 16-Bit RPG "Castle of the Winds" war für mich als Kind unter Windows 3.1 eins meiner absoluten Lieblingsspiele! Dabei hatte ich damals, wie so oft, nur eine billige Kopie der Sharewareversion.  

Daher freut es mich umso mehr, inzwischen doch eine ganz nette, kleine Sammlung an verschiedenen Originaldisketten zusammengetragen zu haben!

Ihr könnt sie euch mitterweile natürlich alle im Internet Archive herunterladen: https://archive.org/details/@dfxthomas?query=Castle+Winds

#Gaming #Retro #Shareware #Win311

¡Nueva versión del excelente emulador de Sinclair ZX Spectrum Spectaculator para Windows (v9.1) ya disponible! También para Android (v2.6).

Incluye nuevas características, mejorando y corrigiendo otras, respecto de su versión anterior.

Comparto aquí muchas de sus nuevas virtudes:

Virtual Keyboard
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- Completely redesigned virtual keyboard using high-resolution PNG artwork for the 48K, 128K/+, keyboard layouts, replacing the previous low resolution BMP images.

- Fixed an issue where the virtual keyboard was not visible.

- Virtual keyboard key states are now reset when the computer is reset.

Screenshots
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- Screenshots can now be saved or copied to the clipboard at various sizes, with configurable scale factor and optional border, all driven from the Advanced preferences page.

- Added support for PNG screenshots, which is now the default format; BMP is still supported for compatibility with older applications.

- Added a Save Screenshot (F4) to the File menu that saves a screenshot directly to disk using the configured size and border settings. Repeated captures for the same program title produce an auto-incrementing sequence number.

Joysticks & Controllers
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- Fixed a buffer overflow caused when certain controllers (flight sticks) report more than the hard limit of 32 buttons; unusable axes are now hidden and unmappable buttons are marked N/A.

- Added named button labels for The Quickshot II, and X52 H.O.T.A.S., replacing generic button numbers.

- Removed legacy UV-axis support that predated USB joystick POV hat support.

- Removed the default Up/Down/Left/Right mappings from the Right Stick, which conflicted with the X52 2nd Stage Trigger; analogue thresholds have been tuned.

Debugger
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- Added Fill Memory — fill any block of memory with a specified value.

- Added Export Memory — export a region of memory to a file.

- Added Edit → Paste File Contents to import binary data directly into memory.

- Added Undo support to the Memory Inspector. Memory Inspector now remembers its last-viewed address across restarts.

- Added a recent files list to the debugger for debugger projects.

Son muchas las incorporaciones que figuran en la versión 9.1 del emulador para los poseedores de Windows.

Toda la info y descargas en: https://www.spectaculator.com/

#Sinclair #ZXSpectrum #Shareware #Emulation #Windows #Android

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Discovering 3 years after it's been published, this "Let's Play" video of Dstroy. Well It's never too late to share it.
Obrigado e até a próxima! 🟢🟡🔵

https://youtu.be/C8gNavu_IiY

#TBT #retrogaming #dos #shareware #90s #bomberman #videogame #indiegame