shareware

Undestand I'm not expecting long-term handouts and would pay a reasonable price for a full up version of a good piece of s/w. But the whole "trial and error" thing aside in general, more than once recently I've downloaded stuff that doesn't even work (or at least not as advertised). But even...

Anyone else remember the "classics," and I don't mean "Half Life I" but really going back, ie before the days of video cards etc.... I esp. remember a lot of shareware games like Cmdr Keen, Wolfenstein, Duke Nuk'm (the orig), the "worm" games (where you're in a box and you have to stop from...