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I released quite a few freeware utilities via disk swapping, BBS's and on Aminet. Some featured on magazine coverdisks and/or in magazine reviews. I still have physical copies of the magazines I knew about at the time which reviewed or featured my software and have found several I didn't know about on archive.org.
When I got into the BBS scene and also wrote quite a few Ami-Express BBS doors and a couple of BBS intros released under Xpress and O.T.T.
My only shareware utility (subsequently released as freeware when I sold up in 1996) made several hundred pounds which helped fund Amiga upgrades when I was a "poor" university student.
All programs I released were written in 100% assembler, but I did a lot of prototyping of concepts and algorithms using AMOS or C.
A few years ago, I spent many happy an hour with a PC and the 2-disk method reading my collection of 344 Amiga disks and converting them to ADF files. Recently, along with key backups of my source code I had made as lha archives, I have been able to find or reproduce full source code for every revision of my shareware utility which means I can build every version binary identical to the released versions from source. Having re-sourced the two cracked versions that were released, I can even produce them, though they fell for my tricks and whilst visually they were cracked, behind the scenes they were no more functional than the restricted trial versions.
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