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Shareware Heroes by Richard Moss
Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game historyShareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware's major players - the likes of id Software, Apogee, and Epic MegaGames - through to the significance of shareware for the 'forgotten' systems - the Mac, Atari ST, Amiga - when commercial game publishers turned away from them.This book also charts the emergence of commercial shareware distributors like Educorp and the BBS/newsgroup sharing culture. And it explores how shareware developers plugged gaps in the video gaming market by creating games in niche and neglected genres like vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-ups (e.g. Raptor and Tyrian) or racing games (e.g. Wacky Wheels and Skunny Kart) or RPGs (God of Thunder and Realmz), until finally, as the video game market again grew and shifted, and major publishers took control, how the shareware system faded into the background and fell from memory.
Richard Moss received his doctorate of medicine in 1972, but eventually left that career after a life-changing realization led him to his true calling: the exploration of consciousness and the integration of self-realization in daily life. For more than 30 years, he has been a guide to people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines in living a path of love and wisdom. He is the author of six seminal books about consciousness transformation, self-healing, and presence. He lives in Ojai, California, with his wife, Ariel.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781800181748 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800181744 |
| Titel | Shareware Heroes |
| Autor | Richard Moss |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Unbound |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-08-18 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
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