Reasonable Solutions

Reasonable Solutions

Reasonable Solutions is a company that, along with Software Labs and Public Brand Software played an important role in the early distribution of shareware. Reasonable Solutions sent out catalogs of disks with several DOS games on each. The disks were designed to require little or no computer skills to use. A batch file, GO.BAT, on each disk displayed a menu of games that could be run by hitting 1, 2, 3, etc., which would in turn launch other batch files (1.BAT, 2.BAT, 3.BAT, etc.) to run the games. In the early 1990s, the Internet became a prime competitor to Reasonable Solutions since it allowed shareware distribution without the cost and waiting time associated with ordering disks.

References

* [http://www.pslweb.com/cgi-bin/history.html The History of Shareware & PsL] .


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