I know it's been three years, but I *still* love this collection you made!
I hope you don't mind, but I made some unofficial patches and addons for it with new games HERE.
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Stellar work, pretty much the best news I've had this year! Noticed you included Neopaint. Quite some time since I saw that one. For some reason, that one really hit me in the nostalgia.
If you want, you're welcome to add the whole updated collection to your itch.io page, call it Shareware Motherlode II or something? Although I really like the build-in update prompt, a single download might be easier.
Hi!
So glad you like it and approve! I was a bit nervous sharing it; made it for myself and didn't want to step on your toes.
Thank you SO much for your inspiring work on the original package; it really was fun to revisit and I adored the menu interface you designed (part of why I did the update prompt thing was just to play with it more, LOL!). I actually also started on my own similar package from scratch but I liked yours so much I wanted to upgrade that first.
Regardless, I might take you up and put a "complete update" version on Itch (with full credit to you of course). I have a few more games to add first though. Are there any in particular you'd personally like me to try and get working?
I really liked the idea of throwing in stuff like Neopaint and Screamtracker as they were as much a part of that "era" for me as the shareware games were. :)
Again thanks for your work and inspiration! Cheers!