Wonderful. I'll share that with the developers I speak to who worked on the game. I'm sure they'll be chuffed to hear that the game made a real difference in someone's life.

Excellent. Hope you enjoy reading! One of the things I'd love to do, if I'm ever able to make an Expanded Edition of the book, is to collate memories and anecdotes like that — of people sharing their experiences as end-users of shareware — to add in an additional chapter or special section.

(In the meantime, if anyone in Australia (or willing to pay for shipping from Australia) wants to buy one of my spare author copies, hardcover or paperback, hit me up.)

I'm calling it a "Revised Edition" as it fixes all known errors from the original release, but I haven't changed much else besides removing Unbound branding. I'd love to do a new (possibly expanded) physical edition, but it's not on the cards anytime soon.

The book includes coverage of how Apogee, id Software, and Epic MegaGames changed gaming with their cool games and grassroots marketing as well as how shareware empowered solo devs to make weird games and put them out into the world. Plus shareware "libraries"/catalogues, licenceware, and much more.

I remember Tommy being quite proud of that one, but I tried it while working on Shareware Heroes and couldn't make heads or tails of it.

I know it's in vogue to have iconography on everything in menus at the moment, but it would make for a cleaner, easier to parse UI if you only had icons on the guide and "report an issue" items.