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Just in case you don't have any plans for the next weekends and the Easter holidays and are a sucker for legacy software like me. WinWorld has got software for DOS, 16 bit Windows, OS/2 (They have OS/2 Warp 4.52!) and much much more.

https://winworldpc.com/home

#retrocomputing #oldsoftware

Just gotta say that running Windows OSes on a Mac in VMs .. rocks!

I have clients on Windows and Mac. Been using VMware Fusion for years to run multiple OSes at once and switch between them as needed.

The best part, though, is being able to run old software! I have a copy of #AutoCAD 2004 (from when I worked at #Autodesk 20+ years ago), that runs great in my Win7 VM. I'm also able to run #FrameMaker 12 (2014) .. pre-subscription.

#OldSoftware #OldTech #Software #VirtualMachine #Windows #MacOS

Nemůžu si pomoct, ale příjde mi, že starší software resp. software navržený v dobách dřívějších je minimálně na Windows prostě efektivnější.

Na služební notebook s relativně čerstvou instalací Windows 11 už jsem si stihnul stáhnout XnView, protože defaultní "Fotky" se prostě nedaly. Dlouho startují a navíc nic neumí...

Dneska jsem si pro změnu stáhnul třeba takový DoubleCommander.

Jak to máte Vy? 😃

#windows #windows11 #oldsoftware #XnView #Irfan #DoubleCommander #TotalCommander

If you ever were told you could not embed images in text files in NeoBook for DOS... Well, don't trust them. :blobCatSmirk:

#MSDOS #NeoBook #Abandonware #OldSoftware

Don't you hate waiting for the #telex machine to become available? #MCIMail has you covered!

#retrocomputing #oldsoftware #DOS

- Telex

Send or receive telex messages anywhere around the world, right from your desk — without having to wait in line at the telex machine. With Lotus Express and MCI Mail, your PC becomes a personal telex machine. The telexes you send are confidential, they won’t pass through unnecessary hands. Now you get more from telex...without having to buy expensive telex equipment or bear high leased-line charges.

Where do you store YOUR 1980s #MCIMail clients?

#retrocomputing #oldsoftware

A picture showings two copies of lotus express (a 1987 DOS mail client) and one copy of The Wire (a 1991 windows 3 mail client).

Both of the mail clients are for MCI mail, a now-defunct pre-internet electronic mail service.

This is pretty cool. Wordstar was definitely my tool of choice back in the day!

#wordstar #retrocomputing #oldsoftware #wordprocessing

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/06/wordstar_7_the_last_ever/

Discover practical solutions to keep your Mac running smoothly

https://medium.com/@jakob.stanfield/11-reasons-your-mac-is-slowing-down-and-how-to-fix-it-in-2024-3dd7914496ef

https://open.substack.com/pub/jstech2/p/11-reasons-your-mac-is-slowing-down?r=447w2v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#macslowdown #macOSupdate #startupprograms #cluttereddesktop #insufficientRAM #fullharddrive #browsertabs #backgroundprocesses #malware #oldsoftware #fragmentedHDD

So. Tonight I am delving into the ancient world of borland 5.x development.. Why? Because I am building a dev environment for the Major BBS. Which is ancient software from the times when we talked to computers directly over telephone lines.

Why am I doing this? For nostalgia, and because I am part of a group who are trying to revive and in some cases modernize the codebase.

I am not a C or C++ developer, but here we go.

#dev #development #c #cpp #bbs #oldsoftware

Ho aggiunto al mio archivio 1330 programmi per MS-DOS tra freeware e shareware Per il download link qui sotto
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https://bit.ly/olddosarchive
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#bbs #retrocomputing #retrographics #Microsoft #msdos #Icon #nostalgia #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames #DOWNLOAD #OldSoftware #retrogames

Seriously?! I am feeling motion sick after three laps of Sebring in Sports Car GT. What happened to my youth when I could drive around for hours.

Also what happened to my ability to actually drive with a keyboard and get 50 second laps. As well as not hitting the wall. This will not do!

Well I guess its back to the conversion of my university notes from Lotus WordPro to LaTeX.

#oldgames #oldsoftware

Aaaand… this is the face of someone knowing that I’m going to install a scimitar mouse cursor from a 30 (!!!) years old cd-rom 💿

#caturday #oldsoftware

Last week I went unsupervised to a thrift shop and I found this CD full of crapware from 1993. I’m checking it out and in the “Gadget” section I found this amazing enhancement for any Windows PC: a Mac-like trash can icon 🩵

#crapware #retrocomputer #windows #oldsoftware

(Linux Tip?) Works for me, hopefully for you too:

If you're struggling to get an app working with an old graphics driver, you can try using an older version, but sometimes it doesn't always work with modern OS's.

In the terminal, open up the folder that the executable/launcher is in (mine was: cd /opt/[APP FOLDER]) and type the following:
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 ./[APP NAME]

This forces software rendering on the app, so see if that works.

If it does work, (if installed) you can edit the text file [APP].desktop (in my case) with nano, gedit
etc (i.e nano/opt/[APP FOLDER]/[APP].desktop)
and drop in the following line:
/opt/[APP FOLDER]/virtualenv LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 [APP].desktop %f

'virtualenv' worked for me, although you may need to replace it with 'env, venv, pyenv, pyenv, virtualenvwrapper, pipenv' etc

env = environment variables. Here it's used to run a utility or command in a custom environment.

Hope this helps

#linux #apps #oldsoftware #textediting (...)

Im super impressed by the FrontPage 2000.
Very intuitive, works fast (1Ghz, 5.5W CPU), and generates solid HTML :)

BTW: best tables creation ever!

#RetroComputing #OldSoftware #HTML #SmolWeb #SmallWeb

@Perrin49 @roger 1987 is also the year Citadel/UX (UNIX port of Citadel BBS) was released. It has evolved into "groupware app" adding internet email and a web front end and such but it is still somewhat actively developed to this day (just called Citadel now)

I have hosted my personal email on Citadel for almost 24 years so far

#OldSoftware can be good software!

All the talk of donuts today (for breakfast) reminded me of the Donut browser — at least, I think that was what it was called ...

Way back in 1999 or so, I think came across a browser written in C/C++ which was called Donut. I don’t remember much about it now but I think it hosted the IE engine?

I think I used that source code as a starting point to write my own C/C++ browser called Scope:

https://farook.org/Scope.htm

Scope hosted both the IE and Mozilla engines and if I recall correctly, I later re-wrote it in Delphi when I switched over to Delphi as my main development language instead of C/C++. But it was so long ago, that most of this is just a hazy memory 😛

I did a quick Google search for Donut to verify my facts but can’t find any reference to the old browser — only something for Android was there in most search results.

#Donut #Browser #Delphi #C #CPlusPlus #OldSoftware