Too-Good-To-Be-True Department

Full-version commercial CD-ROM software for FREE??? (except shipping and handling). Surely only in countries where software piracy is rampant, you smile. Well, go look at Unbeatable Deals.com and judge for yourself. It's a promotion of course, but the price may be right for you. (Aunt Sally would get a cut of this action herself were she not the Mother Theresa of software directory directory directors.)

General Software (Free, Share, or Pretty-Good-Price)

Shareware Site Buttons...
88x31 Buttons of some of the shareware sites listed below, maintained at 5star.

Top Quality Freeware...
Very well organized source of freeware.

Channel 1 File Library...
One of the few BBS's with web access. 100 Gigabytes of free software in return for your email address (seems a fair trade). Caveat: Search engine slow, limit your search to one file area at a time. Categories: New Files ("The most active upload directory in existence, updated daily"), Winsock FTP Collection, Multi-Platform (public domain and shareware etexts, zines, images, music, sounds, fonts, etc.), Windows, DOS (Channel 1 BBS Shareware collection), Intranet, OS/2, Top 20 Downloads,

Shareware.com...
C|Net's search engine for software for many platforms: Windows (3.1/98/NT/DOS), OS2, PC-Games, Unix, Novell-Netware, Amiga, Atari.

Pass the Shareware Please...
"The ONLY site that you can be certain, will list just quality links to shareware! No lamers here..."

Download.com...
C|Net's search engine for PC software under many categories: Business, Development Tools, Education, Games, Home & Personal, Internet, Kids, Multimedia & Design, and Utilities. Supersedes BestZips.

TopSoft...
Directory of shareware, freeware, and commercial software. Games, multimedia tools, screensavers, etc.

Yahoo...
The Yahoo software directory. Over sixty categories of software.

File Mine...
Well organized very large shareware site for PC, Mac, Amiga, Unix, Atari. Categories: Games, Home/Education, Internet/Intranet, Multimedia/Design, Programs/Utilities, Commercial Demos. Offerings rated 1-5 in each of ease of use, interface, documentation, and performance. Permits batch downloading (shopping list).

JUMBO...
Large shareware site, over 200,000 free programs, downloads, and shareware. Channels: Business, Demo City, Desktop, Developer, Entertainment, Games, Home & School, Homework Heaven, Internet, Kids Zone, whatsnew, Utilties,

freehound.com...
"Sniffin' out the free stuff." Large well-organized freeware archive. Categories: Graphics, Internet, Desktop Utilities, Audio Programs, Win98 Utilities, Text Utilities, Games.

SoftSeek...
Shareware, Freeware, and Evaluation Software. Categories: Business & Productivity, Desktop Enhancements, Education & Science, Games, Graphics & Drawing, Home, Family & Leisure, Internet, Programming, Utilities.

SUNET...
Large Swedish software site, 140 GB. Contents: Amiga, Etext, Games, Internet, Mac, Multimedia, Network, NIR, OS2, PC, Programming, Science, Security, Text-processing, Unix, Vendor links, WWW.

Shareware Junkies...
The Internets oldest Shareware Review Site, Reviews of DOS, Macintosh, OS/2 and Windows Software. 700+ Pages.

1SmartSite.com...
One-stop site for shareware, freeware and beta versions. Updated daily, links to the software publishers' download sites.

Shareware95.com...
Popular source of Windows 95 shareware, drivers, and tips.

FileTransit...
Over a hundred of the most popular Win95/98/NT shareware applications. Offers newsletter notifying subscribers of latest applications and updates.

GangGang...
Australian-authored shareware. Over 1400 applications in 100 categories.

Free Zone...
Great variety: TrialWare, FreeWare, ShareWare, NagWare, ..., under 28 categories. Platforms: Mac, OS/2, Unix, Windows (DOS-3.1-98-NT).

Tropical Software...
Large collection of links, categorized under "A Thousand Downloads" (Software stockpiles/warehouses/boxcars, Beyond BIG, General Software Distributors/Manufacturers, Windows98 Software, Windows/NT Software, Wins 3x Software, Mac Software, MSDos Software, GAMES, FREEWARE, Program Homepages, Desktop Themes), SKreen Savers Directory, Desktop Themes, and Ping's hard-to-find downloads.

Cool Tool of the Day...
500 archived reviews of cool Internet shareware products.

MediaBuilder...
Design tools, free graphics, tutorials, etc.

Freeware32
Comprehensive collection of 32-bit freeware, shareware, Windows 98/NT Tips, etc. Categories: Desktop, Games, Graphics Tools, Internet, Productivity, Utility Tools, Essential Files, Shareware.

The Slaughterhouse...
"The newest grade A software cooked-up and served to you fresh daily."
Internet: Communications, Dial-up, HTML editors, Readers, Plug-ins, News/Stocks, Telnet/Finger/FTP, Time logs, VRML, Web.
Windows: Anti-Virus, Audio, Compression, Cursors/Icons/Screen Savers, Disk, File, Graphics, Microsoft Updates, Business, Programming, Security, Video, Win98, Word Processing.
Games: 3-D, Action/Arcade, Fighting, Simulations, Sports, Strategy/War.

The Shareware Author's Index...
Searchable database of shareware authors, for finding shareware on the web by author.

Hyper-Galaxy...
Free software for all kind of uses. More added weekly. Categories: Browser, Anti-Virus, Compression, Communication, Email, Games, Graphics, Internet, Utilities, Plug-in/Update, Text Editors. See also The Jupiterian Galaxy... for additional downloads, loosely organized into 60+ pages.

TweakFiles.com...
Tim Tibbett's lovingly tweaked collection of tweaked files. Categories: All In One, Appearance, Backup&Recover, Benchmark, BIOS, Diagnostic, Drives, Input Devices, Memory, Networking, Processor, Registry, Video.

The Gamer's Inn...
Thousands of downloadable shareware, freeware, game demo and game related files.

The Software Site...
Games. "The Softsite is now a Windows Gamers Paradise! We have changed our format to concentrate on providing the BEST site on the Internet for Windows game users."

Open Window...
Education and utility shareware and freeware by Dick Bryant.

Walnut Creek CDROM...
65 gigabytes of freeware, shareware, etc.

ZDNet...
The Ziff-Davis Software Library: games, internet, homes, education, utilities. Additional stuff at ZDNet's UK branch.

Clayon's Shareware...
Large collection of shareware. Categories: Browsers, Desktop Enhancements, E-Books, Education Software, E-mail Software, FTP Software, Games, Graphics Software, Internet Tools, Music Software, Screen Savers, Search Engine Tools, Shareware Submission Tools, Tools & Utilites, Virus Detection Tools, Web Authoring Tools, Year 2000 Tools.

PC World Online...
PC World's extensive software library with the latest shareware and commercial files. Categories: Antivirus, Business/Office, Desktop Utilities, Entertainment, Essential Shareware, Games, Graphics, Help Files/FAQs, Internet, Sound/Audio, Programming, System Utilities, Video

Freewares...
Selected programs and tutorials in assembly, C, C++, Pascal, CGI, Java, and html. For newbies to wizards. Also in Spanish.

Galt...
Galt's Shareware Zone. Hottest shareware downloads, latest shareware reviews, free shareware newsletter.

Flywheel Software...
Shareware and Freeware: screensavers, utilities, board games, FAQs.

Info Service...
Wide range of software: web browsers, communication, viewers, mail clients, file/archie/finger, audio apps, gophers, HTML editors, news readers, terminal/telnet apps, utility, games, software/systems, FTP sites, Gopher sites, Macintosh, Amiga, Unix, antivirus, drivers, patches & more, Windows NT, Windows 95.

Free Software Freeware Downloads...
Hundreds of free programs, no shareware or demos. Bit primitive. Categories: Desktop, Education, Games, Graphics, Internet, MP3 Utilities, Multimedia, Organizing tools, PC Utilities, Screensavers, Web Design.

BarCode1...
Bar code shareware and demoware for many platforms: DOS, Windows, OS/2, Mac, Unix. Also truetype fonts, label printing, OCR software, printer drivers, etc.

Jim's Shareware Links...
Comprehensive directory of shareware links.

ASP...
Association of Shareware Professionals, a shareware consortium.

Global Download...
Selection of demoware, trialware, and shareware for download. Categories: Entertainment, Internet, Business, Graphics, Programming, Utilities. Developers can surf, add, preview, edit and view their new software listing all in the same browser session. Free email newsletter.

JGAA...
Jarle Aase's remarkable, dare I say unique, assortment of software, tips, etc. etc. from Norway.

La Coleccion...
Software from Walnut Creek, organized into 51 categories.

T & P SC...
Beautiful screen savers and web graphics by Anthony Beaudion.

Happy Puppy...
"The #1 Games Site on the Internet"

Rocket Download...
Mission: "To provide the highest quality programming content available in the software industry." Categories: Chat & IM, Games, Graphics, Health, Home, MP3, Screen Savers, Sports, Travel, Utilities.

High-Tech Shareware...
Over 500 shareware games.

Shareware Reviews...
Links to over a thousand reviews of shareware.
Internet: Browsers, FTP, HTML Editors, Mail, News, PlugIns, Sound, Telephone, Utils, Video.
Noninternet: AntiVirus, Archive, Business, Editors, Font, Games, Graphics, Printing, Programming, Screensavers, Sound, System, Utils, Video, WallPaper.

RISS...
R.I. Soft Systems. Screensavers, games, other odds and ends.

The Download Dude...
Links to over fifty download directories. Link categories: Download Oasis, Freebies, Premium Picks, Sites to See, Free Lotto, Software, Free Stuff, Links, Games.

Nerd's Heaven...
The Software Directory Directory. "So complete it even references itself."

Internet Software

5 Star...
Huge variety of Internet software for Win95/8. Categories: Antivirus, Archie Clients, Audio, Browsers: WWW/Offline/Add-Ons/SearchBots, Chat-IRC, Compression, Dial & Connect, Download Managers, EMail: Anti-Spam/Checkers/Clients, FTP Clients, HTML: Accessories/Color Pickers/Editors/Validators, Image: Animators/Editors/Mappers/Viewers, Internet Tools, Log Analyzers, News: Usenet Readers/Online Services, Parental Control, Applications: Telnet/Security/Streaming, Web Promotion Tools.

Stroud's...
"The Consummate Winsock Applications List"

Tucows...
Large Winsock software directory.

Email Software.com...
Software for a wide range of email functions. Categories: Email servers, email clients, email utilities, robots, fax gateways, pager gateways, email services.

Virtual Voice...
Internet telephony software. Wide selection of trialware and freeware for Cross-platform, Windows, Macintosh, Unix/Linux, and OS/2. Caveat: limited product intercommunication except for those compliant with a standard such as H.323.

Operating Systems

Linux...
The home page for Linus Torvalds' amazingly popular freeware Unix.

FreeBSD...
Berkeley Unix for the Intel x86. Emphasis on performance.

NetBSD...
Berkeley Unix for a number of architectures. Emphasis on platform-independence.

OS Catalog...
Catalog of operating system projects. Very comprehensive.

Scientific Software

Haifa Math Directory...
Remarkably comprehensive directory of mathematical software sources maintained at the Haifa Department of Mathematics.

NHSE...
National HPCC Software Exchange
(HPCC = High Performance Computing and Communications)
Under development by the Center for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC).
Includes pointers to

Catalog... of NHSE's stuff.

Netlib... Grandaddy of numerical analysis software sites. Also see HotGAMS (next entry, below).

Vendors of Repository Tools and Information Services...

and links to many other scientific computing resources including most of those listed here.

HotGAMS...
Guide to Available Mathematical Software: an on-line cross-index of mathematical and statistical software in use at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Hot as in HotJava. Nearly 10,000 problem-solving modules from some 100 software packages are indexed, including a large subset of the netlib (see preceding entry) collection.

BenchWeb...
Benchmark information and software. "BenchWeb is a starting point for finding information about computer system performance benchmarks, benchmark results, and benchmark code. The site is maintained at the University of Tennessee Computer Science Department by Innovative Computing Labs."

Grid Generation...
Grid Generation Software Catalog, Collection of annotated links maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station.

HPC Netlib
The high performance branch of Netlib. Provides cataloging, evaluation, and distribution of high performance math software, assistance obtaining and installing software, and communication between software authors and user community.

PTLib...
Parallel Tools Library. Similar resources to PHC Netlib (above).

NCSA Parallel Computing...
Archive sponsored by the NCSA Enabling Technologies Team for Parallel Computing. Software for linear algebra, PDE's, graph and mesh partitioning. Parallel programming environments, languages, and tools.

NPACI...
NSF National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. Yet more distributed and parallel processing tools and environments.

MathTools...
Free Software: Numerical C Functions, Gnuplot, DJGPP, Matlab Toolboxes Available on the Internet

Windows Software

(Internet software for Windows is listed under Internet Software.)

Freewarefiles.com...
A programmer's delight. Large and well-organized source of Windows 98/NT freeware. Categories: Windows 98/95/NT Free software (Desktop Enhancements, Games, Graphics Applications, HTML Applications, Internet Tools, Multimedia, Organize/Plan/Produce, Text Editors, Utilities), Programming/Libraries/Drivers (Setup File Creators, Drivers, Libraries, Visual Basic runtime files), Win 3.x Free Software Directory (Applications, Games, Internet Tools, Utilities).

32bit...
"The latest 32-bit software." Categories: START! (compression, file mgmt, antivirus), Business (Financial, Mail, PIM, etc.), Games, Internet (IP/TCP, HTML, IRC, Java, News, etc.), Utilities (Editors, Programming, drivers, WinCE, etc.), NT (Admin, BackOffice, Drivers, etc.).

Win95 Shareware...
Stephen Jenkins' Windows 95 archive. "The best and biggest collection of Windows 95 Shareware on the 'Net."

Completely Free Software...
The free lunch site. Freeware for Windows and DOS, hand-picked, tested, reviewed and rated, with no strings attached.

No Nags...
Windows freeware (as opposed to shareware). "A collection of Windows software that has no nags, no time limits, no disabled features or any other tricks... NONAGS only lists freeware and the very few shareware programs that meet these criteria."

Dave Central...
"The best collection of Internet related software for Windows." Categories: Audio, Conferencing, Connectivity, E-mail, Fax, File Utilities, Finger/Whois, FTP, Graphics, Java, Multimedia, Newsgroups, Programming, Real Time Info, Telnet, Video, VRML, Web Authoring, Web Surfing.

AnotherWin95...
Software (click on Software in the navigator menu on the left) and much else to do with Windows 2K, Windows 98, and Windows 95. Categories: Anti-Virus, Business, CAD, Calendar, Clocks, Compression, DataBase, Desktop, Disk, Utilities, Editors, Educational, E-Mail, File, Utilities, Financial, Fonts, Food, Games, Graphics, HTML, Icons, Imaging, Internet, Installation, Miscellaneous, Multi-Media, Music, Networking, News, PIM, Programming, Science, Screen, Saver, Security, Sound, Sports, Telecommunications, Themes, Utility, Winsock.

Freeware Home...
Large collection of free 32-bit software. Categories: Desktop, Education, Games, Graphics, Home & Hobby, Internet, Productivity, Programming, Utilities, Microsoft, Services.

Fat Bill...
Fat Bill's page of links to Windows95 freeware. Categories: Desktop, System, File, Graphics, Multimedia, WebPage, Internet, Programming, Applications, Miscellaneous, Links.

FileFarm...
"Freshly harvested files from the farm." Windows software. Categories: Authoring & Programming, Internet & Networking, Utilities, Productivity & Management, Multimedia & Graphics, System Updates.

Key Windows Freeware...
Comprehensive collection of freeware for Windows 95/98/NT. Categories: Anti-Virus, Audio, Backup, Browsers, Cookies, Disk, Email, File, File transfer, Games, Graphics, HTML, Info, IRC, Net Phone, Net Utility, News, Organisers Registry, Security, Shell, System, Text, Zip/Unzip.

Windows 95 Applications List...
Large collection of shareware and freeware for Windows 95. Every program documented with a substantial paragraph.

BraneStormer...
About a hundred freeware links, organized under the following categories: Freeware Discussion, Hard Disk Utilities, Programs, Internet, HTML, Chats, Shareware, E-Mail Update, Freeware Links

Software Center...
Over a hundred software and freeware applications for Windows, maintained by Drazen (Doda) Dodig.

Delta PC...
Shareware and Freeware.

Macintosh Software

(Internet software for Macintosh is listed under Internet Software.)

Swiss Mac...
Mac freeware and shareware from Switzerland.

MacOS.com...
MacOS.com Shareware.

UMich Mac Archives...
University of Michigan Mac Archives

ZDNet Mac...
The Ziff-Davis Macintosh page.

MacDirectory...
Links to anything related to MacOS.

Other Platforms

Freshmeat... Linux software. Very comprehensive archive. Click on "appindex" for categories, viz: Administration, Anti-Spam, Backup, CD Writing, Communication, Compression Utilities, Documentation, Drivers, Editors, Emulators, Encryption, FTP Clients, File Managers, Filesystems, Financial, Firewall and Security, Games, Graphics, IRC, Log Analyzers, MP3, Mini Distributions, Mirroring, Modem gettys, Monitoring, Networking, News, Packaging, Scientific Applications, Shells, Sound, System, Text Utilities, Viewers, Web Browsers, eMail.

Amiga Web Directory...
Former monster list of all Amiga links. Now retired but still the place to go to find the rest of the world's Amiga links.

Visual Basic...
Visual Basic Web Directory. "This site is my attempt to compile the definitive Visual Basic directory." Includes the larger well-known sites plus hundreds of lesser-known ones.

User Groups

General: Association of Personal Computer User Groups...

Amiga: Arizona... | Friesland... | Saskatoon...

Australia: Interest Groups...
Directory of Australian interest groups for Macintosh, Newton, and MacOS.

HP: Interex...

Linux: Austria... | Brookhaven Nat. Lab... | Switzerland... | Washington DC...

Macintosh: Arizona... | Amherst... | Ithaca...

Newton: Arizona... | North Atlanta...

Next: Berlin... | Switzerland...

OS/2: Central Ohio... | Flensburg... | Mid-Atlantic... | Indianapolis... | MIT...

Sun: Germany... | Japan...

TeX: UK...

Commercial Vendors

These are directories of vendors, as opposed to directories of the products of a single vendor. These directories are best suited to browsing; for more specific searches use a search engine or follow one of the links below to a directory that is either organized by category or includes a search capability, or both as with Yahoo.

SoftSearch...
Humongous (22,000 developers, 110,000 titles) online database of commercial software information. Search by developer name, software title, and keyword.

Yahoo...
The Yahoo software directory. Organized by category and can search.

Software Methods and Tools...
Directory of several hundred software development methods and tools from more than a hundred software vendors. Discussion group, one-stop-shopping developer's toolstore, consulting services, etc.

WebShopper...
Software section of WebShopper. Categories: Business, graphics, utilities, entertainment, development.

The Software Directory...
BBR Information Services' directory. The place for software available through Australian distributors. 22,000 software and 11,000 hardware product listings from 600 international publishers.

SoftScout...
Directory of business software, including vendor information, hardware/software requirements, screenshots, pricing, and links to the vendor web site. Categories: Communications, Human Resources, Knowledge Management, Product Development, Supporting Operations, Finance/Accounting, Human Resources, Infrastructure, Operations, Sales/Marketing, System Development.

Betabase.Com...
"The Home of Beta Testers on the Internet." Very large collection of beta software for Windows, Mac, Java, Rhapsody, etc. Bulletin board, newsletter.

Turboguide...
Search engine for commercial software products. Search can specify platform, language (natural), keywords, title, and/or vendor.

E-Warehouse (Saturn Solutions)...
30,000 products online. Categories: Windows 95/NT, Macintosh, Power PC/68K, Business&Finance, Accounting, Tax, Entertainment, Games, Hobby , Graphics&Design, Multimedia, Clip Art, Internet, Browsers, e-Mail, Utilities, Network, Anti-Virus.

Chumbo...
Software shop. Games, business software, graphics, online media tools, etc.

Configuration Management...
The Configuration Management Yellow Pages

Speech Recognition...
Over a hundred links to commercial speech recognition vendors.

Nerdly Interest

Slashdot...
"News for nerds. Stuff that matters." Where the informed nerd goes to stay that way.

FreewareWeb...
Email newsletter. "Highlights the best software, themes, too-good-to-miss sites, fonts, technology news, tips, and