Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full(fabiensanglard.net)
459 points by shdon | 200 comments
Fabien Sanglard blog post about the 1996 Quake shareware CD-ROM, how id Software distributed it, and why the disc was nearly too full.
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3 stories tagged shareware, newest first.
Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
988 points by AaronFriel | 87 comments
A Hacker News post by Aaron Friel announcing the death of his father John Friel, creator of QModem, inviting people to share memories.
Move Fast and Abandon Things(engineersneedart.com)
415 points by JKCalhoun | 193 comments
A blog post by the author of Glider recalling unfinished Mac games he wrote decades ago, recovered from old hard drives and shared as disk images for emulators.