PC shareware and other things to download

This page contains links to a number of shareware download sites, as well as some sites that offer downloads of demo versions of commercial products and sites offering fonts, themes and screensavers. Note that Acorn and Linux specific download sites are not listed on this page, but are kept here and here respectively. This page contains links for sites that are mainly or totally for the PC.

This page is divided into a number of sections. These are :

• Links to searchable shareware sites.
• Links to software FTP sites.
• Links to company sites offering downloads and demos of their software.
• Sites offering software under the Gnu Public Licence.
• Emulators and simulators.
• Fonts, themes and screensavers.
• Other sites offering downloads.

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Searchable shareware sites

• The CNET Downloads.Com site.
• The CNET Shareware.Com site.
• The Jumbo Archive.
• NONAGS Shareware.
• OldVersion.com - archived older versions of software. Can be very useful.
• Snapfiles.
• Tucows.
• WinSite archive.
• ZDNet.com Downloads.

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FTP sites

• The Demon Archive.
• The Mirror.ac.uk Archive (formerly HENSA).
• Secret FTP - a small site containg iBCS for Linux, the Bash shell for Windows and some Windows/DOS device drivers.
• The Stuttgart Archive
• Sunet FTP Archive.
• Funet FTP Archive.
• The SunSITE homepage.
• SunSITE Northern Europe.

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Company sites offering downloads and demos

• Alchemy Mindworks (Graphics Workshop and GIF Construction Set, among others).
• Apple Quicktime.
• Lavasoft Adaware - anti-spyware solutions.
• JP Software, home of 4DOS.
• PDF995 - trial versions of the PDF-writing software.
• Pegasus Mail.
• RealPlayer.
• Virtual Acorn - turn your PC in to an Acorn A5000.
• Winamp.
• WinPatrol - intrusion detection and anti-spyware solutions.
• Winzip.
• ZoneAlarm Firewall.

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Sites offering software under the Gnu Public Licence

• The Free Software Foundation.
• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSView homepage.
• The BZip compression utility homepage.

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Emulators and simulators

• Emulators Online (mainly Mac and Atari emulators for PC's).
• Links to home computer emulators.
• EDSAC simulator homepage.
• BBC emulators for the PC - B-Em, BeebEm and Model-B.

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Fonts, themes and screensavers

• All Good Things Typography.
• The Font Pool.
• 1001 Free Fonts.
• Acid Fonts.
• Free Fonts.
• Font Freak.
• Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts for Windows - a Geocities site.
• Freewaresite.com Screensavers archive.

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Other sites offering downloads

• Lynx web browser information.
• Lynx for Win32.
• Programmer's File Editor.
• Tardis home page.

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