ChiWriter. 😉

Cool Edit 1.31?

Its brokenness is the reason why I upgraded to CoolEdit 96 after the Win7 transition 😀

It's hard to say since most things can be resurrected with a patch or a wrapper or an emulator, but let's say anything connected to floppy drives. I still have a floppy drive on my Windows 7 machine and it works but most people find it hilarious so I'm guessing any related software isn't exactly up-to-date according to them either.

Photo Finish 3.0 (I don't like the changes made to version 4).

Hmm. Xtree Gold and Direct Access (a menu system) stand out for me.

I've always had a fondness for Bluewave Offline Reader for BBS'es 😀

That and PCTools 4.30

dacow wrote:

I've always had a fondness for Bluewave Offline Reader for BBS'es 😀

This, plus Norton Commander. I can't do any work on my dos-based pc's anymore without using Norton Commander, trivial stuff become really tiring once you're used to it.

Am I the only one?

Apps? Apps? Apps?

No such thing as retro apps 🤣

I thought the same thing. 🤣 Apps... 🤣

*shrugs*

People have been saying "app" as shorthand for "application" since long before smartphones became popular.

Oh, that's what they were getting at. I thought perhaps it was a "only retro games here, we don't need no stinking applications" type thing. And yes, I don't see anything wrong with the abbreviation either. Pretty sure that's fairly standard.

appwiz.cpl

😀 Of course, the word "wiz" makes me uncomfortable too. So at work I say "application wizard" and nobody knows what I'm talking about until I walk them through the whole concept of the Run box.

I've never come across the word Apps in the past. We had programs, tools, utilities, games, software, applications. But happy to be proven wrong. You can dig out your old posts from 10 years ago and have a look what you used to refer to 😀 Or find Deluxe Paint being referred to as App.

To me App = mobile application.

Only ten years? Too easy. Already commonplace in 2001 for example,
http://web.archive.org/web/20010808064555/htt … ww.app-art.org/
http://www.glish.com/archive.asp?file=2001_12_02_archive.xml

Ok maybe 10 years isn't old enough 🤣

Those links are pretty weak sources.

Let's stick with Deluxe Paint and Corel Draw as a challenge.

How about this:

https://archive.org/details/ComputerShopper_September2000

Page 39. Dvorak column. Trying to find it referenced earlier than that right now.

My favorite classic DOS application is 3D Studio r4. It was the most fully-featured 3D program available for the PC at the time and one of the most expensive at about $3,000 per license. I learned the basics of 3D with it and then moved on to 3D Studio MAX in the late 90s.

I also had fun with AutoCAD - used it to make some basic 3D renders with a raytracing plugin called Accurender. And Norton Utilities came in handy for defragging and recovering bad floppies.

Yes, 3d Studio was a really neat application, especially when all you're used to is Povray. I was able to buy version 3 on a student license but couldn't afford the upgrade to 3ds Max. I've since switched to other software but sometimes get the urge to locate an old copy of 3ds and fire it up. I was way more productive with a polygon modeler, although I've learned to do what I want to do with the software I'm using now. 3d Studio running on OS/2 Warp at the time was just amazing.

My all time favorite DOS PROGRAM ("App"??? BAH! :Rich_thumbs_nose:) was the good old Norton Commander for DOS... been using that since it's first v1.0 incarnation back in the day 😀