Albert's Ambry Looking for the latest in shareware? Check out this site which allows you to download and try out shareware for all platforms before you buy. You need to set up a free ID and password, then you're off to search.

Alex's Applets Take a bite of the 3D cake, check out the Java Clock or swipe your copy of the Audio Background Player. Alex has got quite a collection of applets that he's giving away. One problem, though, the sites in Italian, so if you don't know the language you're going to have to do some guesswork.

Cap'n Fishy The captain's locker is stuffed with booty from raids on shareware and freeware software ships; come aboard for a fistful of fine, fresh baubles like Netscape, Free Agent, PowWow, and Eudora Light. Get the crew good and drunk and download all you like.

The Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm) Win 3.x, Win 95, Win NT, OS2 shareware selections.

Download.com Thousands of shareware, freeware, and demo software programs in subjects such as Business, Programming, Education, and Games

Download.Net From classic arcade games to the latest games. Also a comprehensive winsock section, desktop applications section, and internet utilities.

Dr. Download He's got the cure for the common code.

Fineware Systems Quality Shareware Space Hound, once chosen as "Shareware Pick of the Week" by the Windows Users Group Network, is one product produced by this Oklahoma City firm. Their site offers descriptions, screen shots, and demos of this and other shareware products, including File Ferret and Peeper.

Free Software Store The owners of this Australian site test new software packages and offer the weeks's gems for you to download. Fly with visitors from allover the planet with AlphaWorld, a "3-D virtual reality version of Internet relay chat" or download WinZip for Windows.

ftp.arl.mil This is an anonymous file transfer protocol repository for the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), located in Maryland. Along with the FTP files, there are images from Desert Storm, and early historic computer documents.

Galt Shareware and Software Loads of shareware to download, from screen savers to clocks to utilities for Windows. come by often and check out their top 10 downloads, or subscribe to the Sarasota, California company's free newsletter.

Informatik, Inc. Sharware programs primarily for Windows computers are offered by Informatik. There's a wide variety of applications and tools, such as an HTML editor, information manager and document imaging system. Check out their product by downloading demos. Reasonble prices.

Jumbo Shareware An aptly named archive of shareware, games and freeware. This may or may not be the "biggest, most mind-boggling, eye-popping, death-defying" collection, but -- at 50,000 programs and counting -- it's a pretty good one.

No Nags Software Software with no disabled features, no time limits, and no nags! (Also no demo software and crippled programs).

RighTime How will your computer handle the year 2000? This page offers a small resident program to cure the hardware aspect of the problem. It's Year2000.EXE and it's free.

Second Nature Software Second Nature Software publishes over 70 different screen saver and wallpaper programs for Windows and Macintosh, and all profits are donated to the Nature Conservacy. A free installer for either platform and software samples can be downloaded here.

Shareware.com This nifty service from c/net features the Virtual Software Library search engine through which you can search for, browse, and download software -- including freeware, shareware, demos, fixes, patches, and upgrades.

The Shareware Mall Online and offline computer entertainment and resources.

the Software Construction Co. The North Billerica, Massachusetts, company develops and publishes Shareware for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows environments, specializing in software to manage educational, home, and hobby information. It's line includes Diamond Day and On This Day are on display.

The Software Labs An interesting approach to shaeware "shopping" is undertaken by the software Labs who offer Windows-based programs, games and Web design tools for a monthly subscription fee. Many titles are available nowhere else and handy screen shots are provided to save wasted download time.

The (Free) Software Shak Yep, you read right -- free sofware here, demos of some of the hottest commercial software packages for you to download and try out. And now there's also a cool message/discussion board where you may find answers to questions you didn't even know you had.

The Software Site Is this site the best shareware resource on the Net, as it claims? Our assessment: massive, well-organized and extensively annotated -- it's pretty darn good. But -- and this is a big but -- Mac users will feel left out at Oregon site.

Spectrum Shift Designer and Screensaver No need to drop acid when you've got this software distorting your Windows machine. One program lets you play with palette animation; another does the trick unattended, acting as a screen saver. Check an image collection, then download for a 90 day trail.

Swedish University Network Popular FTP site that houses a massive software collection mirrors around the globe. Multimedia stuff and a large archive of images too.

Top Level Software Products Unlimited Free software and shareware for Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, and other operating systems.

University of Michigan Software Archive Here's the WWW way to go straight to this popular FTP site and download programs, for any platform, from development and games to graphics and utilities.

Winsite Archive Users of the popular Windows platform are invited to visit this gargantuan archive of shareware. Excellent browsing features and different section for Windows 95, NT, and 3.x make this a worthy bookmark for Windows users.

ZD Net Software Library Top-rated shareware.

Zoo Software This exhibit holds a small but playful species of seldom-seen, nocturnal programmer. On the floor of the cage is the Plasma Screen Saver for Windows, a piece of freeware you can download with source code. That other specimen is Jack, the Java Adventure Construction Kit, which isn't quite housebroken yet.