I remember hanging out with Tim back in the late 80's on Compuserve's GAMERS forum. He was doing shareware back then, under the Epic Megagames brand as I recall

I remember hanging out with Tim back in the late 80's on Compuserve's GAMERS forum. He was doing shareware back then, under the Epic Megagames brand as I recall. There were a lot of people on that forum making shareware games, myself included (MVP Backgammon, released in 1991). One of my distinct memories is that Sweeney was more serious about it, and about the future of games, than most of the rest of us. Guess it paid off!