Connections to Share and Freeware Sites

- Jumbo is perhaps the largest with over 300,000 free programs, downloads and shareware.  Despite its large size, this site is fairly easy to navigate and also provides user ratings.  Unfortunately there has been a noticeable increase in the amount of advertising and software for sale on this site.

- A World-wide distribution network for Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain software.  While this site does contain Windows 95/98/CE/ME/2000/NT programs, this is perhaps the best site for people looking for older DOS or Win 3.x software. 

- Download stuff from Ziff Davis's library of software, listings of the top downloads, what's new, and reviewer's picks.  This site provides excellent software reviews, a list of the most often downloaded software, and a list of the most often software search terms.   I also find this one of the easier software sites to navigate.    

- Lets you search the Internet for more than 250,000 Shareware files.  Searches can be done for PC, Macs, Linux, Windows CE, or Palm Operating Systems, searches can also be done by type of software.  Given the size of Shareware archives these days, Shareware.com's search engine approach works rather nicely.

- The University of Pittsburgh's Chess Club maintains a great archive site that contains lots of free and demo chess software.  This site has something for all chess players, there is chess stuff for beginners, intermediate and experienced chess players.      

- The "Freeware Guide" is perhaps the best source for finding Freeware software as well as other freeware sites. 

- ATN's Shareware Distribution is a service organized to distribute shareware and freeware to the University of North Carolina community and beyond.  Software in these archives has been collected over the years and is much of it is now available to the world.