Screen Shot Gallery -- Windows® 9x, Me Shareware

With the dawning of the "Internet Age" in the mid-1990's, offering worldwide access to websites from which shareware software could be downloaded, almost overnight shareware titles disappeared from computer stores and bulletin board services (BBSs) became obsolete. Now, if you needed a shareware program to run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium Edition, all you had to do was connect to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and visit the shareware website of your choice.     The shareware "try before you buy" concept offers users free trials of software. Most commercial software companies will not let you return products once their shrinkwrapped packages have been opened.     After finding the shareware program that best meets your needs, to both obtain the full-featured program free of "nag" screens and to support the authors who offer these low-cost software alternatives, it is only right to "register" the program by paying the author's registration fee. Shareware programs can cost tens or even hundreds of times less than comparable commercial software.

Graphics Software     Computers are wonderous machines. They can process data at mind-numbing speeds. Computers translate data as binary 0's and 1's and arrange those digits in combinations to represent letters and numeric values, words and calculations. This is all very good and efficient but it isn't very fun is it?     In the mid 1990's, 32-bit graphics software was developed that allowed anyone with a computer running Windows 95 or Windows NT to create and manipulate graphics images, apply special effects to graphics, and create eye-catching items with both text and graphical attributes.

Graphic Workshop 95 Copyright © 1995 Alchemy Mindworks, Inc. Graphic Workshop is a graphics conversion program that can read and write graphics in 30 different formats. It can dither, reduce colors, scale, rotate, print, crop, and create thumbnail catalogs of graphics files. In filename mode you can tag/untag multiple files, rename, copy, move, and delete files. It also has on-line help. Total install size: 2.44MB

Internet -- Website Editor     Just as computer viruses created a new software market back in the early 1990's, the Internet's World Wide Web created a new market of software for creating Web pages.     HTML editors allow people and businesses to create website "pages" for publishing content on the World Wide Web. But commercial website editing software was expensive, costing hundreds of U.S. dollars or more.

HomeSite 1.2 Copyright © 1996 Nick Bradbury One of the best freeware HTML editors of the day, HomeSite lets you create Web pages will minimal effort. With sophisticated automation tools such as a table editor and frame wizard, development time is saved compared to using a plain text editor. Features include color coding and tabbed toolbars with commonly used HTML items, drive/directory/file windows, external browser viewing, full-screen editing, text search, on-line help, and more. Want to open more than one file at once? Open multiple copies of HomeSite. One of the few limitations of this freeware HTML editor is it has a 256K file size limit. HomeSite was later purchased by Alair and later still acquired by MacroMedia and sold as a commercial software product. Total install size: 941K

Office Suite     Do you really need a commercial "office" suite like Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect Office, or Lotus SmartSuite to be competitive in the business world, type a letter to Aunt Mae, or do your school homework?     Commercial office suites were expensive -- costing up to US$800.00 in the mid to late 1990's. Because the commercial software companies dominated the office software market -- Microsoft in particular -- few organizations were willing to spend the capital or time to develop such a massive project that had little chance of being a serious competitor to commercial titles.

StarOffice 5.2 Copyright © 2000 Sun Microsystems This version of StarOffice has one feature office suites by Microsoft Corporation, Corel Corporation, and Lotus Development Corporation don't -- no cost! Sun Microsystems acquired the StarOffice suite from StarDivision GmbH. This is the last free full version of StarOffice for 32-bit Windows. StarOffice's integrated desktop resembles Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000's "start" taskbar and menu. It features StarWriter 5.2, StarWriter/Web 5.2, StarCalc 5.2, StarBase 5.2, StarImpress 5.2, StarSchedule 5.2, StarDraw 5.2, StarImage 5.2, StarChart 5.2, StarMath 5.2, StarMail 5.2, StarDiscussion 5.2, Oterro (R:BASE Technologies, Inc.), International CorrectSpell (1991). International Electronic Thesaurus (1992), Word for Word (1996), Adabase D (Software AG), on-line help and much more. Sun Microsystems began offering StarOffice 6.0 and later only as paid commercial products beginning in May 2001. This version was available for download or distributed on CD-ROM. Total install size: 248.36MB

Spreadsheet     In the mid-1990's, commercial 32-bit Windows spreadsheet software cost several hundred U.S. dollars. Often, home computer users and small businesses could not afford the cost of commercial spreadsheet software such as Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows, Microsoft Excel for Windows, Quattro Pro for Windows, etc.

JinSheet97 Copyright © 1998 Sinjinsoft From Korea comes a 32-bit shareware spreadsheet program with features found in "big name" commercial titles for a fraction of their cost. It features tabbed notebook files with 8,192 rows and 256 columns per "sheet," 39 cell formats, over 100 functions, automatic and manual calculation, cell protection, password protection, 53 2D and 3D graph options, send file as e-mail attachment, auto save, save as HTML, full-screen view, 6 moveable toolbars, drawing tools, cell borders, vertical and horizontal data tables, macros, macro buttons, data consolidation, bring to front, send to back, divide/merge cell contents, click-and-drag row height and column width, cell range names, data analysis frame, subtotals, align titles across cells both horizontally and vertically, cell justification, zoom, headers, footers, erase all/ formula/format, bind/release group objects, undo, paste insert, 25 shade patterns, find/change cells with same content, move/copy/insert/delete sheets, rename sheet, and more. The registration fee was US$20.00. Total install size: 3.57MB

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