u/echocomplex

Here's my good old collection from 30+ years ago of shareware mail order disks. This was mostly how my family bought software in the early 90s before the Web got more widespread in the mid 90s making the mail order disk business mostly obsolete. Here's some pics of my shareware game heavy hitters. Let's just say my childhood had a lot of Apogee, ID and Epic games.

There's a bunch of non game stuff in here too. Utilities, screensavers, random quirky things like PC speaker music programs where each key of the qwerty keyboard plays a different tone. I've been through these before, looking to see if there is anything rare and not already on the Internet archive, but it seems the vast majority of it already is, even when it's something I've never heard of before.

I did still rip a lot of these (about 95 percent of them still read fine) and I think it may still be interesting one day to share those files as a single downloadable collection, so you could see what random collection of games, screensavers and programs someone might have on their 386 in the mail order disk days.