although @MossRC has already written extensively on the topic of #macintosh #shareware , i love this little article by one of the former employees of Ambrosia Software - makers of Escape Velocity
it chronicles the ins and outs of first selling "nagware" and then "crippleware" when times got tougher for the company
https://tidbits.com/2002/03/11/the-plain-truth-about-casual-software-piracy/
inspired by the article, one of the goofy things i decided to do for the mac-like wildfire simulation game i'm working on is selling it as....... shareware!
... which of course requires a naggy splash screen, running in its own os
here's a little test i did to see what it would play/look like