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I had two wildly (for me anyway) successful Windows shareware apps in the '80s & '90s. WinPrint[1] and INIedit[2]. They were $25 a pop and I made way more tha
by cek 14y ago
I had two wildly (for me anyway) successful Windows shareware apps in the '80s & '90s. WinPrint[1] and INIedit[2].
They were $25 a pop and I made way more than $10K from them over the years. Each payment (except a few juicy site licenses) came to me as a check in an envelope.
The best part was WinPrint became my resume for Microsoft. It demonstrated that I was an expert in an area where demand was high: Apps on Windows that could actually print.
[1] http://www.kindel.com/products/winprint/ http://www.kindel.com/products/winprint/
[2] http://www.kindel.com/products/iniedit/ http://www.kindel.com/products/iniedit/
- cek 14y agoThis blast from the past made me poke around some old code. My first shareware app was called TAPES I wrote in high-school. It was a UCSD P-System (Pascal) app that printed J-Cards for cassette tapes (the cards that list what songs are on the tapes; you insert them into the cassette case...for you little kids who never used cassettes). Given how few people on CompuServe had access to UCSD P-System, I don't think I sold very many copies :-) I eventually released TAPES using Turbo Pascal for the PC as well.[1] Printing has always been my thing. Another app I built, that was freeware, was called Spit. Spit printed your source code with headers/footers...originally WinPrint was called WinSpit... I'm super embarrassed by my rebellion against K&R the source demonstrates [2]. [1] https://github.com/tig/Tigger/blob/master/College/MY_PAS/TAPES3.20 https://github.com/tig/Tigger/blob/master/College/MY_PAS/TAP... [2] https://github.com/tig/Tigger/blob/master/College/C_SRC/SPIT153.C https://github.com/tig/Tigger/blob/master/College/C_SRC/SPIT...