The Software Creations BBS computer racks

Software Creations' BBS, was considered for many years the largest BBS in the world, which assisted independent software developers and larger software companies like Apogee Software popularise the Shareware model via online ordering and distribution. Software Creations provided access to shareware titles from developer 3D Realms, Id Software, Capstone, Parallax, Activision and many others. Software Creations also published 45 titles owned by the company, such as Jetpack, God of Thunder, Argo Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Hexxagon, Hexxagon 2, Night Raid, Revolution X and Squarez Deluxe!. Software Creations was a division of Linton Enterprises, Inc, based in Massachusetts, and was run by Dan Linton. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 565 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 904 pixel, file size: 159 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)This is a picture taken at Software Creations BBS Headquarters back around 1992. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 565 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 904 pixel, file size: 159 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)This is a picture taken at Software Creations BBS Headquarters back around 1992. ... Corporate logo of Apogee Software Apogee Software, Ltd. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 3D Realms is the name of a computer game publisher and developer based in Garland, Texas. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ... The capstone is the highest rock or mount of a structure. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Activision, Inc. ... Jetpack is a videogame published by Software Creations (US) in 1993. ... In Daoism, the god is in charge of thunder. ... Chinese checkers Chinese checkers (or chequers) is a board game that can be played by two to six people. ... Hexxagon is a board game - a variant of Ataxx that is played on a hexagonal shaped board instead of a square shaped. ... Revolution X is an arcade light gun game released in 1994 by Midway featuring the band Aerosmith. ...

The BBS operated on:

• 134 nodes running PCBoard from Clark Development using all U.S. Robotics modems,
• Novell Network supporting NFS utilized by Software Creations' own WEB BBS patent.

PCBoard was an MS-DOS bulletin board system (BBS) software package first created by the Clark Development Corporation, first introduced in 1983. ... U.S. Robotics (popularly nicknamed USR), based in Schaumburg, Illinois and founded in 1976, is a company that makes computer modems and related technologies. ... A modem (from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analogue carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. ... Novell was also the name of a road bicycle racing team. ...

Critical acclaim

• The 1995 Dvorak Awards for Best BBS and Web Site.[1]
• Most popular BBS by readers of Boardwatch Magazine in 1993.