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'''Shareware''' is a software marketing concept where an incomplete or time-limited version of a program is released to entice people into buying the full (registered) version. [[Doom]] and [[Heretic]] were both initially released as shareware, each containing only the first respective nine-level [[:Category:Episodes|episode]] in the unregistered version: [[Knee-Deep in the Dead|Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead]] and [[City of the Damned|Heretic: City of the Damned]].
Part of the reason [[Doom II]] was not given a shareware release, according to [[John Carmack]], was that "[a] lot of people consider themselves to have "finished DOOM" when they just finished the shareware episode."<ref>Doomworld.com (1999), [http://www.doomworld.com/interviews/int7.shtml Interview with John Carmack], (question 15). Retrieved on April 11, 2008.</ref>
* [ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/heretic/htic_v12.zip Heretic: City of the Damned] v1.2 (and [ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/heretic/htic_v12.txt text file]), at the id Software FTP site.
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* [http://download.cnet.com/Hexen-demo/3000-7563_4-10001185.html Hexen: 4 levels]
* [[Wikipedia:shareware|Shareware]] Wikipedia article
[[Category:Historical]]
