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You're probably wondering why you would make a donation, and why I would ask you to. To be clear, you are not paying for the games that appear on this site, nor does your donation register your shareware. The money won't necessarily go to the authors, either.
All of the money that this website receives will be used to pay for the site's hosting and preservation initiatives. If there's any money left after that, to purchase the full versions of games listed on this site so that, a) they can be reviewed to help visitors make an informed purchasing decision, b) the authors can be paid for their hard work, c) shareware authors will recognize the demand for these programs and continue to make them available for purchase (or start selling them again), and d) to archive and preserve them.
I believe in the principle of transparent accounting practices, therefore all expenses and revenues will be published on the site.
Cumulative Financial Brief
How to help the site for free
Friends of RGB Classic Games
Fiscal Year 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Total Revenues ($) 7.01 3589.91 3209.80 2623.07 1006.67 1180.59 37.75 0.45 11655.25 Expenses ($) (35.00) (830.27) (1978.26) (2128.30) (523.06) (866.41) (35.16) (101.01) (6497.47) Surplus/Loss ($) (27.99) 2759.64 1231.54 494.77 483.61 314.18 2.59 (100.56) 5157.78
Donations through PayPal are totally secure, and the amount and currency of your donation are entirely up to you. What is it worth to you to have access to games that you used to play, or hidden gems that you are discovering for the first time? Even if it's just a few dollars, every penny helps me out. Donors will, of course, be graciously acknowledged on this page.
How to help the site for free
You can help RGB Classic Games without sending a donation or buying a RGB Classic Games DVD. If you want to help us out for free, here are some ideas.
Relevant links on other websites will draw new visitors, as well as improve our position on search engines, so mention RGB Classic Games on your website or blog. If your site is informational or has something to do with gaming, you can interview me! I've been interviewed before, and I'm always happy to talk about the site, or classic DOS games in general.
Post about RGB Classic Games on a forum that you visit frequently. Be sure that your post is on topic or relevant for visitors of the forum, and simply post a factual account of what you like about the site, or why others might enjoy it, so that your post isn't spam. Alternatively, you can mention RGB Classic Games in your signature, and then it doesn't have to be relevant to the forum because it's relevant to you!
You can let people know that you find the site valuable on social bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Furl, and Stumbleupon.
You can propose RGB Classic Games as a "link of the day" or "site of the day" on websites that have them. You could mention the site in your school newspaper to introduce your friends and classmates to classic gaming.
You can also make a monetary donation without any cost to you! I host all of my websites on a single 1&1 webhosting package, and I can't recommend them enough. Their cheapest package offers 300 GB of bandwidth per month, 10 GB of storage, 5 MySQL databases, unlimited domains, and includes one free domain name registration, for $3.99 per month. If you outgrow it (which is unlikely), the $4.99 per month package has 1200 GB of bandwidth, 120 GB of storage, and throws in a second domain name registration. On top of that, they usually give you 50% off for the first three months. Many so-called discount webhosts don't offer as much in their most expensive packages — sometimes for $49.99 per month! — as 1&1 offers in their least expensive package. I honestly can't get over that. If you ever find a better hosting package, please let me know! Anyway, if you're looking for a webhost and decide to join 1&1, click this link and the site will get a commission. It's like a donation that costs you nothing.
RGB Classic Games became an Amazon associate in order to link to some games that can no longer be purchased from the copyright holder, but are available new or used on Amazon. If you click the link for Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, or Amazon.de before you buy anything, RGB Classic Games gets a commission. It costs you nothing, and if you were going to buy something anyway, why not give a few cents to the site while you're at it?
Friends of RGB Classic Games
James Goddard
Pierre Mihok
Dan Stewart
Dave Allen
Rahbar Latifi
Pascal Wenger
Jess Franklin
Manuel Brito
Alexander Mair
Michael Kohel
Johan Nilsson