Posted on 18 May 2008
Tags: commercial games, commercial games released as freewares, free games, Freewares, wikipedia games
Often commercial games, that were not considered as freeware at the time of their original release, are released on a later date as a freeware: sometimes as publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release.
Wikipedia has a list of such freeware games.
Here’s a sample of the games you would find in the list.
- Abe Lincoln Must Die! (2007) is the fourth part in the Sam & Max episodic series by Telltale Games, released as freeware on November 5, 2007.
- Abuse (1996) is a side-scrolling shooter.
- Akalabeth (1979), a.k.a “Ultima 0“, is a role-playing game by Richard Garriott.
- Alien Carnage (1994), a.k.a Halloween Harry, is a side-scrolling platform game published by Apogee Software.
- Allegiance (2000) is a multiplayer space shooter / RTS by Microsoft Research.
- Battlecruiser 3000AD (1996), a space simulator by Derek Smart.
- Battlecruiser Millennium (2003), a space simulator by Derek Smart.
- BC Kid (1992), a platform game by Factor 5.
- BC Racers (1993), a racing game by Core Design.
- Beneath a Steel Sky (1994), an adventure game by Revolution Software, released to support the ScummVM Project.
- Beyond the Titanic (1986), a text adventure game by Apogee Software, re-released as freeware in March 1998.
- Bio Menace (1993) is a side-scrolling platform game by Apogee Software, released as freeware in December 2005.
- Boppin’ (1994), a puzzle game published by Apogee Software, released as freeware in 2005.
- Brány Skeldalu (The Gates of Skeldal) (1998), czech computer role-playing game published by Napoleon Games, released as freeware in December 2007.
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Posted on 18 January 2008
Tags: defragmentation, displayfusion, flickr, Freewares, icoolplayer, karafun, karaoke, ultradefrag, youtube batch downloader
DisplayFusion: DisplayFusion is an application that can make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) life much, much easier! From allowing you to use a different wallpaper on each monitor, to integrating with Flickr for image searching, to providing hotkeys for managing your application windows.
Youtube Batch Downloader: Youtube Batch Downloader is software to browse youtube.com, just like if you open youtube.com using IE or Firefox, but with Youtube Batch Downloader you can download more than one movie. If you have 10s or 100s of files you want to download from youtube, you absolutely should try this application.
UltraDefrag: UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows. It is very fast, because the defragmenting is done by kernel-mode driver.
Karafun: KaraFun is a karaoke software for PC that offers a complete solution for home karaoke. KaraFun is based on a powerful animation engine and contains its own editor.
iCoolPlayer: iCoolPlayer is free media player that able to play audio files off all popular formats, such as mp3/ogg/wav/aiff/wma/ aac/ac3/alac/ape/mac/mpc/ofr/ spx/tta/wv/cda/midi/flac. With this light player you can also convert between most popular formats, rip and record audio files, listen to radio and create Karaoke Lyrics. UpMix from source to mono/stereo/2.1/4.1/5.1/7.1 sound. Resample audio from 16000Hz -> 192000Hz, and provide 29 DSP Effect.
Posted on 01 November 2007
Tags: free softwares, freebies, Freewares, open source, softwares for free
Here is a list of some of the most useful freewares that you can find around the web. Most of the time we can get our job done with freewares instead of going for expensive commercial softwares. Check out the list and see how many of these you could use.
And don’t forget to bookmark this page. You never know when you would need it again.
Office
OpenOffice - office suite
PC Suite 602 - office suite
AbiWord - text editor
Atlantis Nova - text editor
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer - power point files viewer
Adobe Reader - pdf reader
Foxit PDF Reader - pdf reader
PDFCreator - create pdf documents
Doc Convertor - document convertor
Convert - unit convertor
Converber - unit convertor
Sunbird - calendar/organizer
EssentialPIM Free - calendar/organizer
PhraseExpress - speed up your writing
ATnotes - create notes on the desktop
Archive managers
7-Zip - compression program
IZArc - compression program
TugZIP - compression program
CabPack - compression program
Universal Extractor - extract files from any type of archive
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