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Do you ever get nostalgic for old software?
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Bluekaveli
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Lovely. When I couldn't "afford" PS7 it was my only hope.Needs more Paint Shop Pro
Pause. You mean there's a way? I want to know how! I miss how much of a memory conservative it was. Then all of the popular tools were being made in CS so I couldn't use them :-(I still use Photoshop 7. Was a bitch to get working in win 7 64bit xD
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Best game nobody remembers right here. Came on TWO 5 1/4 discs, so you knew it was something special.
terrisus
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King Cobra
Banned
I miss this game called cannonballs 3D, it was a wild tangent game.
This is all I could find from it.
This is all I could find from it.
Junior Mint
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AS400 4 lyfe
I remember wasting so much time in this, just looking at articles.
The days of "Multi-media CD-ROM software" was magical indeed. Remember this?
Mindmaze, a quiz game that was part of the Encarta encyclopedia. It had way more atmosphere than it had any right to.
High-5s all around! I don't care what anybody says, I still like Winamp more than anything else. Sure, Foobar is also nice and minimal, but it doesn't seem to be quite as useful.
There's a Windows 7 compatible freeware version out there. Visit the wikipedia page of Full Tilt Pinball...
All available on gog. Cheap, DRM free, compatible with newer Windows versions and sometimes even Macs/Linux. *excitedly waves gog flag around*
Battle Chess
Incredible Machine
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
The days of "Multi-media CD-ROM software" was magical indeed. Remember this?
Mindmaze, a quiz game that was part of the Encarta encyclopedia. It had way more atmosphere than it had any right to.
man, all the weird music from this game is rushing back to me.
Did anyone ever use Creative Writer?
I found my old boxed copy in a closet recently and had a nostalgia attack. I used to make fanzines for games with it.
Yeah! This is what I was going to post. The building as the interface? So awesome.
Creative Writer 2 killed everything that was great about it.
ChuyMasta
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I remember wasting so much time in this, just looking at articles.
Damn, this one got me.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Aside from ICQ?... Never! Now old games... "The Legend of Kyrandia" and "Ultima Underword" are two games I get nostalgic about but never want to go back to. The nostalgia is literally that precious to me
I miss the days of ICQ and AIM, and later whatever the early Linux alternatives were.
The simplicity of Windows 98, Mandrake and Yellow Dog Linux, and the unsophisticated (read: wide ass open) college campus and upstream ISP networks of the early 2000's. A lot of experimentation was done back in those days, shit that would land one in jail now.
Encyclopedias on CD-ROM. Long, long before Wikipedia.
The simplicity of Windows 98, Mandrake and Yellow Dog Linux, and the unsophisticated (read: wide ass open) college campus and upstream ISP networks of the early 2000's. A lot of experimentation was done back in those days, shit that would land one in jail now.
Encyclopedias on CD-ROM. Long, long before Wikipedia.
Clockwork? (Can't remember the exact name" A PC game with rotating clock hands and it was a sort of puzzle game. I played it on a demo CD from the magazine "PC Gamer".
Recently I've been trying to remember it, but I get nostalgic for mid-90's era demo discs and shareware in general.
Hotline and other P2P clients were fun back then too.
Recently I've been trying to remember it, but I get nostalgic for mid-90's era demo discs and shareware in general.
Hotline and other P2P clients were fun back then too.
brotherbean
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I feel nostalgic toward Windows95 and it's terrific startup splash screen/sound. I also feel the same about early versions of Netscape Navigator. I first got online around 94-95, so in general I have a sort of soft spot for the overall look and feel of the era. I remember how impressed I was with Microsoft Encarta, and I played hours and hours of Microsoft Golf.
I have lot of nostalgia for Windows 98, because in a very real way that was the one time I was ever a PC gamer. I was about 10, and there were several ace Star Wars games and Civilization II on that computer. It was right up there with my Sega Genesis and PSX until JRPGs completely consumed me and the PSX conquered all.
I literally haven't even owned a computer in years.
I literally haven't even owned a computer in years.
Nice to see some Paint Shop Pro love. Geez, I just realized my version is 12 years old now.
Bondwell, hehe.
SpookyFries
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I installed Netscape on my work computer about three weeks ago. I wish I could travel back to the late 90s and talk to my ICQ friends again
Also Microsoft Comic Chat was a big part of my early years
Also Microsoft Comic Chat was a big part of my early years
On phone atm so I can't check. But if I remember right I had to rebuild the installer with some freeware program I found seaching google.
PartlyCloudlike
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90's design kicked ass because anything goes!
Netscape Communicator 4.5 is "old?"
This is what I used:
The Netscape icon remains one of my favorites. It's that teal/black/white combination. Plus, it's splash screen felt astronomical, astrological and a portal to uncharted waters. Good times.
Also... old-school Winamp:
still use winamp!
I was always more of a MusicMatch fan. I read on Gamesages that it's better than WinAmp.
I used MusicMatch Jukebox quite a lot, but I remember an earlier version of the program with a different icon and UI - the icon was black and white, the UI was mostly grey and black, IIRC. Sadly, I cannot seem to find any image of it on the web
I still maintain one.
Hover. Microsoft made it available on Windows 8.1.
blame space
Banned
Str8 naked buds sounds chill as hell
While Windows ME might've been (was, actually) a bad OS, at least it had a beautiful startup sound.
And, you know what, I liked WinME at the time. It came with a great PC my dad bought that I still remember fondly to this day
And, you know what, I liked WinME at the time. It came with a great PC my dad bought that I still remember fondly to this day
sadly, I managed to screw up the HDD somehow. I still don't know to this day if it was a virus or a hardware malfunction, but I lost a lot of things that I had on that PC
it's still buffering
Bluekaveli
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Too much work for me
So........did he get banned for posting cracked software?
DarthButcher
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Anything by The Learning Company
Seems like a good place to ask this.
Does anyone remember some sort of... I think pack in windows software, maybe for windows 95, that featured a (white?) rabbit(?), some environments you could click on that caused some animations (one was under the sea, another a haunted house), and a thing where you could record your voice and then play it back with a modified sound with settings like "bear","bird" etc.
Have some nostalgia for it but can't remember what it was
Edit: May have been a pack in for whatever computer we had...
Does anyone remember some sort of... I think pack in windows software, maybe for windows 95, that featured a (white?) rabbit(?), some environments you could click on that caused some animations (one was under the sea, another a haunted house), and a thing where you could record your voice and then play it back with a modified sound with settings like "bear","bird" etc.
Have some nostalgia for it but can't remember what it was
Edit: May have been a pack in for whatever computer we had...
The days of "Multi-media CD-ROM software" was magical indeed. Remember this?
Mindmaze, a quiz game that was part of the Encarta encyclopedia. It had way more atmosphere than it had any right to.
I remember both of these vividly. That Encarta CD came with my mom's Windows 98 machine I think. I used to play that weird maze game all the time.
There were a few other weird games that came with that Windows 98 computer too. I remember one of them was a first person adventure game, kind of like Myst, but you were a cyborg or some crap. It was stupid.
Did anyone ever use Creative Writer?
I found my old boxed copy in a closet recently and had a nostalgia attack. I used to make fanzines for games with it.
Creative Writer was amazing!
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