Later, services like Kagi started offering applications that authors could distribute along with their products that would present the user with a form to fill out, print, and mail along with their payment.
Conrad R. Button is a text game programmer who created a series of educational and recreational shareware text adventure titles distributed via BBSs and through Reasonable Solutions catalogs as "Button Games."
The game was based on the original shareware version, Crystal Raider, one of the supporters of which had been Michael Greene, founder of Greene Inc (later to merge with CasadyWare to become Casady & Greene).
eSobi is a shareware application and the full version of eSobi consists of four functions: (1) an RSS reader, (2) a podcast receiver, (3) a meta-search engine, and (4) a data library.
In 1995, the games magazine, Amiga Power, declared Gravity Force 2 the second best Amiga game of all time (behind Sensible Soccer) which resulted in great exposure for a freeware/shareware title.
iEmulator 1.7.9 is a shareware PC emulator for PowerPC and Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.3.0 or later, based on QEMU.
Jim Knopf, nicknamed Jim Button ("Knopf" meaning "button" in German), is considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware (so named by fellow software veteran Peter Norton).
The magazine's articles are targeted at many different levels of expertise, from beginners' tasks (such as working with Word documents, setting up a simple wireless network, or building a watercooled PC) to more advanced articles (such as working with Linux kernels or becoming a shareware author).
NS-Shaft is a shareware computer game that was originally produced in the late 1990s by Nagi-P Software for the Macintosh.
NS-Tower is a shareware computer game that was originally produced in the late 1990s by Nagi-P Software for the Macintosh, but later ported to Windows.
Object Desktop — initially entitled The Workplace Toolset/2 — was developed over three years by Brad Wardell and Kurt Westerfeld subsequent to Stardock's OS/2 Essentials, a pre-registered set of OS/2 shareware.
Battlegrounds started development as a sequel to the popular shareware title One Must Fall: 2097, playing in a side scrolling manner with two opponents facing each other.
This, along with the rise in popularity of forums such as Compuserve and CIX, led to a significant shareware scene, (still) archived by Steve Litchfield and the 3-Lib shareware library, started in 1994.
Lancaster also created several shareware DOS computer games known collectively as The MicroLink Games.
The Software Industry Conference website notes: "The Shareware Industry Awards were conceived by Michael Callahan aka Dr. File Finder at the time of the first shareware conference - as a means to focus attention on the shareware industry. Michael felt that while the conference would help shareware authors in general, an awards ceremony "like the Academy Awards" would benefit the shareware industry as a whole."
Despite releasing some conventional shareware and desktop applications, Signwave have also received attention and awards from arts organisations such as Transmediale and Ars Electronica for their software artworks.
Before it was taken down, the Software Industry Conference website noted: "From 1991 through 1994 the conference was called the Summer Shareware Seminar and was held in June. In 1994, due to a conflict with Ziff-Davis, the conference name was changed to the Shareware Industry Conference and began being held in July. In 2007, the board of directors changed the name to Software Industry Conference to better reflect the needs of the industry."
Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) is a computer game programming library created by Lysator for the Apple Macintosh platform which was popular during the late 1990s, in particular for shareware games.
Scott Swedorski started Tucows in 1993 to provide users with downloads of both freeware and trial versions of shareware.
In the early years, some of the most popular products were Simtel shareware for MS-DOS, CICA Shareware for Microsoft Windows (now the Sunny A archives), and the Aminet archives for the Amiga.
WordFile4ME is a shareware Object Linked Embedded (OLE) capable word processor with nine different stages/faces, to suit curriculum requirements the stage menu selector allows features to be enabled progressively.