The release notes go back only as far as version 7.6.3 and the first release of version 8.
Is there a list of the release dates of the older versions?
When did Textpad switch from being Shareware?
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Welcome to the internet: achive.org has snapshots which can date back to f.e. 1996. See also release notes from 6.0 to 7.4.0 and archived release notes from 3.2 to 5.4.2. Strictly speaking TextPad is still shareware - it's just that the term is not used since 1998 anymore, but shareware as term is defined as:
...and as such is unbound to time or feature limitation.shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost