What's your favorite piece of obsolete software?

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  • ShdwmageShdwmage Member Posts: 374
    bobloblaw wrote: »
    Terminate!

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    You missed the Ex- in the start of exterminate.
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  • stryder144stryder144 Member Posts: 1,684 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I almost forgot...osxl. It was the best boot loader I have ever used. It is still around but too difficult to install unless you are really motivated.
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  • paul78paul78 Member Posts: 3,016 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Sinclair BASIC and later Minix is how I learned about operating systems. Also I liked Turbo PASCAL.
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  • PurpleITPurpleIT Member Posts: 327
    gorebrush wrote: »
    XTree Gold

    XTree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Freakin' awesome

    Oh... wow! I used that from DOS 3.3ish through Windows 3.11 and IIRC there was a crappy GUI version of it that had none of the soul the DOS version had. I remember thinking how pitiful Windows Explorer was... and by the time I started using Win 98 (I skipped 95) it either wouldn't run or it wasn't worth the trouble.
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  • petedudepetedude Member Posts: 1,510
    PurpleIT wrote: »
    Oh... wow! I used that from DOS 3.3ish through Windows 3.11 and IIRC there was a crappy GUI version of it that had none of the soul the DOS version had. I remember thinking how pitiful Windows Explorer was... and by the time I started using Win 98 (I skipped 95) it either wouldn't run or it wasn't worth the trouble.

    I used to work with one guy who was SO fixated on Xtree Gold, he had to carry a special boot disk around with it installed and had to boot from that. Back in those days, booting from alternate media (e.g. floppy) took forever. We tried to get him to use the command line to no avail.

    As to my favorite "old" software:
    Lotus Write
    OS/2 Warp
    Paradox (DOS versions)
    QBASIC
    some older versions of Word for the Mac
    I'm sure others will come to me. Sometimes I miss IBM DisplayWrite, of all doggone things.
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  • AverageJoeAverageJoe Member Posts: 316 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Some great software being mentioned... I'll add my list:

    OS/2 2.1 then Warp
    QuickBasic 4.5
    PowerBASIC 3
    Turbo Pascal 7
    Delphi 1
    Qmodem 4.3
    SLMR (Silliy Little Mail Reader)
    MegaMail Reader
    RBBS with Maple Street mods
    Enable -- word processor, spreadsheet, database, telecom that the Air Force used -- everyone complained about it but I loved it!

    Oh, they were great days... but hard drive space was expensive and downloads were slow...
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  • andrew_jamesandrew_james Registered Users Posts: 2 ■□□□□□□□□□




    Soundplant

    Soundplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    It's like a poor man's drum machine / mpc. It's extremely fun to cut bits of audio and make replay them with a keyboard stroke.

    Who needs to spend a thousand dollars on a midi controller and a daw when you have this free for non-commercial use software.

    Haha but seriously it's pretty fun and also "It has also been used as a sound design tool on the sets of the 2010 film Inception[9] and the BBC television series Doctor Who."
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  • BokehBokeh Member Posts: 1,636 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Enable? LOL! I completely forgot about that. Biggest pirated piece of software when I was in the AF! Would actually run off of floppy disks for those of us who couldn't afford pricey hard drives back then.
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  • ShdwmageShdwmage Member Posts: 374
    My old favorite word processor was Claris Works.
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    I also miss Gato, one of the most awesome games of all time.

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    Oh and I can't forget Oregon Trail.

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  • GoodBishopGoodBishop Member Posts: 359 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I do miss QBasic - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/QBasic_Opening_Screen.png
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  • DevilWAHDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Shdwmage wrote: »
    I also miss Gato, one of the most awesome games of all time.gato.gif
    no no no, this was the most awesome game of all time :)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Command


    that sub games reminds me of 688 attack sub
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  • paul78paul78 Member Posts: 3,016 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Oh - speaking of games - I was addicted to Ultima II. One of my all time favourites.

    Other apps that I miss:

    Wordperfect 4.2 - the 4.2 version remains my favourite word-processor. I still remember with Wordperfect 5.0 came out and hating it because it required 2 5.25" floppies to load instead of just one.

    Quattro Pro for DOS - simple and fast
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  • jace5869jace5869 Member Posts: 15 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Windows 8.1

    It seems like it is getting the Me\Vista treatment unnecessarily. I absolutely love the OS since getting it and convinced my team when I worked at the school district to migrate to it. They are only putting Win 7 and Win Thin Client (thin 7) on old, or lab machines and moving everyone else over to 8.1.

    Hopefully, 9 keeps the look and feel of 8.1, but adds the stupid start menu back for people missing it.
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  • About7NarwhalAbout7Narwhal Member Posts: 761
    Lotus Notes for me. You want to talk about doing things the hard way. Lotus Notes was a study of how to do everything wrong... They even have a Fan Page!
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  • AverageJoeAverageJoe Member Posts: 316 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Bokeh wrote: »
    Enable? LOL! I completely forgot about that. Biggest pirated piece of software when I was in the AF! Would actually run off of floppy disks for those of us who couldn't afford pricey hard drives back then.

    I wouldn't know about how pirated it was, but it was one of the first software packages I bought for home. Enable had a military discount that made it easy to own legit, at least compared to programs like WordStar and WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3 and Quattro Pro, dBase and Paradox. I don't think I had even heard of Word, Excel, or Access back then.

    Oh, and I remember running Enable off floppies, too! Five-and-a-quarters meant lots of disk swapping to get any serious work done. Those were the days. :)
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  • ccnxjrccnxjr Member Posts: 304 ■■■□□□□□□□
    jace5869 wrote: »
    Windows 8.1

    It seems like it is getting the Me\Vista treatment unnecessarily. I absolutely love the OS since getting it and convinced my team when I worked at the school district to migrate to it. They are only putting Win 7 and Win Thin Client (thin 7) on old, or lab machines and moving everyone else over to 8.1.

    Hopefully, 9 keeps the look and feel of 8.1, but adds the stupid start menu back for people missing it.

    Found the Windows 8.x UI/UX focus group icon_lol.gif
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  • Kai123Kai123 Member Posts: 364 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Asif Dasl wrote: »
    Now that you mention Norton... Norton Utilities was a great piece of software I used to use on Windows 95 and after. Used to love Disk Doctor and Speed Disk.

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    Memories and nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks! Reminds me of a time when CacheMan 98 was a brilliant program to have.
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  • ShdwmageShdwmage Member Posts: 374
    DevilWAH wrote: »
    no no no, this was the most awesome game of all time :)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Command


    that sub games reminds me of 688 attack sub

    You obviously never played the awesomeness that was Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis:

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  • Asif DaslAsif Dasl Member Posts: 2,116 ■■■■■■■■□□
    IMO Command & Conquer was probably one of the best games ever made... I played so many hours on that game... The latest C&C 4 was a complete disaster but the rest of the series was superb.. i miss it, cause I can't play it... <sniff> icon_sad.gif

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  • NotHackingYouNotHackingYou Member Posts: 1,460 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Asif Dasl wrote: »
    IMO Command & Conquer was probably one of the best games ever made... I played so many hours on that game... The latest C&C 4 was a complete disaster but the rest of the series was superb.. i miss it, cause I can't play it... <sniff> icon_sad.gif

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  • W StewartW Stewart Member Posts: 794 ■■■■□□□□□□
    perl. I write my scripts in perl whenever bash can't do what I need.
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  • wes allenwes allen Member Posts: 540 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Scorched Earth, anyone?

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  • DevilWAHDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    wes allen wrote: »
    Scorched Earth, anyone?

    Oh man I had forgotton that!!! epic!!
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  • stryder144stryder144 Member Posts: 1,684 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Ugh...WordStar! I remember using it back in 94/95. We had power issues at the site I was at and if you forgot to hit the right key combo, you'd lose everything! I couldn't tell you the number of reports I had to retype because of it.

    As for games, I miss Aces of the Pacific and Road Rash for PC. Aces was a DOS game that was damn near perfect. Good times, good times!
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  • GPITGPIT Member Posts: 24 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Datawatch Monarch 10.5. Hands down the best non-OS software I've ever used.

    OS - Windows 2K! Loved, loved, loved, win2k and would still use it if any relevant software would still run on it.
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  • DevilWAHDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    stryder144 wrote: »
    As for games, I miss Aces of the Pacific and Road Rash for PC. Aces was a DOS game that was damn near perfect. Good times, good times!


    Good times indeed, but Dam they make me feel old times to!!! :)
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I miss also

    Impossible Mission
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    Oil Imperium
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    Maniac Mansion
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    Zach Mccracken
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    But the best one of them all

    Wing Commander
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    Especially when you pressed the "Turbo" button on your x86 ...


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  • Asif DaslAsif Dasl Member Posts: 2,116 ■■■■■■■■□□
    @JibbaJabba - You had a turbo button too!?! My 486-DX-33Mhz which was warm to touch and had no heatsink - I was pretty sure that turbo button wasn't connected to anything at the back!! haha
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Oh yea - but it made games useless LOL ...
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  • paul78paul78 Member Posts: 3,016 ■■■■■■■■■■
    @Asif - You had a 486? Tee hee - I grew up using a 6502 clocking at a blazing @1Mhz. I made the huge mistake of throwing it out about a decade ago. I really miss that old antique.

    @JibbaJabba - Your mention of Zak McCrakken really brought back memories - did you ever play Leisure Suit Larry? That was what my friends and I played. It was quite racy at the time.
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