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Mine are:
Dogz and Catz :-)
Lotus Smartsuite 97 (especially Freehand)
Oh, and does anyone remember the '101 Dalmations' print studio that shipped with HP Inkjet printers?
:-)
Norton Commander - yes, i know about win commander and midnight commander :-)
Corel Draw - yes, i know that it's probably still around, but everybody+dog seems to be using adobe products in stead.
...oh, and i kinda liked win3.1 as well. Still have an old puter running that ;)
..otoh: One thing that i definitely don't miss is "The Office Clip"
UCSD Pascal for Apple ][ - the first time I learned programming
Borland Pascal 7 - the last time I did real programming.
NetObjects Authoring Server - the first collaborative web development tool available to a broad public. Never developed to the Finish, betrayed and sold out by its management, botched by the new owner, finally ungracefully dumped. Would it have been allowed more development ressources and more dedication - the CMS industry would look different today!
Gruds in Space - the very first (and only one so far) adventure game I played to the end. Static images and lots of (English) text accounted for numerous nights in front of my Commodore 64, in a century far, far away from here...
vi - since I was the only one in my group who managed to use it back in '89 :-)
Corel Draw - I second that. Been with it since version 2 or 3, and it still is OK for "Quickies". However they never seemed to get it right. The first thing I try with every new version is to re-import an EPS exported by Corel itself. Doesn't barely ever work - since the very first reasons. I was able to hire two graphic professionals, so I barely do any 2D-graphic work myself anymore. They always give me a hard-time when one of my old Corel files needs to be updated or when I scribble a quick idea in Corel and let them do the finalization in their Quark and Adobe programs. However, when I worked with Quark the first time I missed my Corel dearly! I have never seen such a buggy, inuseable software like Quark...
Norton Utilities
Dungeo (on the PDP-11)
TJ
Norton Commander .... *sigh*
Yeh - mee too. But I hated Coreldraw!
Cobol - I could understand Cobol!
Space Invaders and PacMan.
What a game!
- M.U.L.E - great game for 4 people
- Railroad Tycoon - the original on a PC
MAN! I didn't think anyone else knew about DUNGEO...
LOL
It's parser was way ahead of it's time. I wrote the orginal dunmap tool that went with it, though I'm not sure how widely it ever got installed/distributed.
TJ
Pirates is now available in the orignal format on the PC!
Jet Pac Willy
Myriad (VIC-20)
Oh dear, it's all coming back to me now ;-)
Later on,
QBASIC vs QuickBASIC (not unlike Java and Javascript)
Quattro Pro for OS/2 (and anything else for OS/2)
nuPop for DOS (my first POP e-mail client)
[edited by: choster at 4:11 pm (utc) on Dec. 21, 2004]
I know it's still around, but does anyone still use it instead of Excel?
We both posted about Lotus 1-2-3 at EXACTLY the same time, LOL.
Civilisation - the original
I miss Nibbles (now called Snake on Cell Phones) and Gorilla (ancient version of Worms) that you played through Qbasic.
PCXT, probably mid-80s
Anyone ever heard of it? or was it just a product of my deluded imagination?
Artemis - PM scheduling software. From a G search, it seems its still in business - wow!
FlowChart
Quattro Pro - oh my, I almost forgot about that one! It was GREAT, it was simple, it was intuitive. And it had GRAPHICS! Yes, graphics! From the DOS-Screen (I still think that a text based screen is perfect for word processing, spreadsheets and programming) you could switch to a graphic screen (which took SECONDS to initialize) to look at pie charts. PIE-CHARTS!
I worked as a freelance journalist back then, and I traveled 3 hours by train to get the new release from Borland's press agent. The best thing Borland ever did was handing me this free copy (and the subsequent free copies of all their compilers) because for sure I was an Evangelist in their name.
*sigh* Quattro Pro....
