Ari's small, unimportant question. (british people needed)

[Aridas]

I was looking at an old game, and I was wondering, what exactly defines "british shareware"? I typed it into google in quotes and I found at least one result that said and meant "british shareware" as it was. Is there something other than location of the software author that defines it, or is this just some... thing?

[Darkmoon]

It's dry, witty, and far to intelligent for American computer users to understand.

[Knight]

British shareware?  Hmm.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Beatrice_of_York

[Netami]

To my knowledge, they don't have any different practices or definitions of shareware. In the old days, shareware was just the name for demos of old computer games. They'd "share" it with you in the hopes that you would play it. Demos back then were really just videos of the game in question.

What game was it, anyways?

[Aridas]

Denarius Avaricius Sextus. A graphical command-based adventure game.

[Tapewolf]

I have no idea.  The only thing that occurs to me is that back in the early-to-mid '90s British people would tend to prefer home-grown shareware as it would be much easier to pay for by cheque/postal order.  Paypal kind of made that less relevant.

To be sure, I was only able to pay for RAR because they had a UK reseller

[Aridas]

I guess that makes sense, seeing how far back THIS thing goes.