re bundle(s) inside retail software..

[chelseayr]

while finally doing a bit of early2023-late cleanups I was thinking a bit about the hypercard 2.3 box I have and hmm i'm curious if some softwares were always meant to be released with a bundle included or did sometimes two variations exist for a short time like the vanilla kind of original release and another bundle-included release altogether?

 

[Cory5412]

Do you have any more details about what you're looking at?

Some software (Photoshop feels like a good example in this context) has multiple concurrent versions that are sometimes included with different packages, e.g. a lot of scanners bundled Photoshop LE for basic image cleanup/manipulation.

There were a few other limited releases of specific software bundled with things like Final Cut Pro in it's early days as well, I think DVCleaner may have been one of them.

For anything that was just tossed onto the CD: it was likely shareware and the version you see is The Extant Version, but that too really kind of depends.

 

[chelseayr]

I don't have any other examples in mind right now but if I think of something I was directly curious about i'll mention it here. I've indeed seen these limited versions of photoshop too. and interesting to know about re the early start of finalcut itself btw