What did you rember best from that period of its life spand? like what was the most come on software for doing internet acces, messenger software and email klient that was non MicroSoft software and games aswell, and what you used for hearing music than windows media player, and other worth mentioning software for that operateing system, i hope you get the idea of now what i ask about for you to post off.
Winamp
QuickTime3
Netscape Navigator
Works for Windows (later Office95)
Photoshop2
Truespace
Encarta
ICQ
FruityLoops
FruityTracks
NeoRageX
Genecyst ([EDIT:] Not Genecyst, thats DOS, I meant DGen)
Sub7
Some strange sheep.exe program that made sheep run around, hang off windows and eat grass on your task bar and stuff.
From my personal experience in the mid-90s:
Internet Access: AOL dialup, then university Internet access via Ethernet (required Trumpet Winsock and Kerberos)
Web Browser: Netscape Navigator
File Sharing: Usenet binaries newsgroups. Software was split into dozens of 1.4MB RAR files.
E-mail: Eudora at home, email via Telnet at Classic Mac systems scattered across the university campus
Video: QuickTime 3 with Sorenson video, streaming video via RealPlayer ("Buffering...")
Music: WinAMP was the first MP3 player to really take off
Productivity: Office 95 / 97 was pretty much the standard. Some holdouts still used WordPerfect.
Graphics: Photoshop 3.0/4.0, 3D Studio MAX 1, CorelDRAW 6/7
Personal computing was evolving rapidly in the mid-90s. In the span of a few years I went from AOL dialup on a crashy 256-color Windows 3.x box to high-speed Internet via Ethernet running on Windows NT, true-color 3D acceleration became standard, and writeable CDs made storage cheap. It was the most exciting time to own a PC.
EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot this shifty-eyed little bastard:
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Microsoft Plus! Pack
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
DOS PCI Graphics Card Benchmarks
Sonique was the alternative to Winamp back then. Some of the weirdest UI stuff I've ever seen.
Pegasus was also popular for E-mail.
WinZip (unregistered, of course) was the way to go for archives.
The Microsoft GIF Animator (originally included with FrontPage) was still often recommended for lack of a better freeware alternative.
Irfanview was still the best dang image viewer ever.
wrote:Sonique was the alternative to Winamp back then. Some of the weirdest UI stuff I've ever seen.
OMG, how could I forget Sonique...complete with mo-town 5sec introduction
http://www.glop.org/sonique/
Can't find Sonqiue2 on there though, it was touted as the all new UI system (called 'Mantis'), I got the beta somewhere, buggy as you like, but quite intuative usage iirc (Similar feel to the lovely smooth right click anims with sonique)... fuck knows how I just remebered all this shite....
Whitecap .... mmmm
wrote:...RealPlayer...
Thank god that died.
Acrobat 4.x
mIRC of course
Netscape 4.7x
WS_FTP
ISS WinPlay
HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
Microsoft Best Of Entertainment Pack on one floppy disk. It had Chip's Challenge and Jezzball to name a few. Still play them on a Windows 98SE machine. Of course the included pinball game demo that came with Windows 95 as well. Played the crap out of that when I was bored.
Oh yeah, I love the Entertainment Packs, 1-4. And Microsoft Arcade as well.
HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.
My father's old P166MMX machine came preloaded from the shop with a certain flying toaster-shooting screensaver. Besides that, just the usual Office 97, Winamp, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, and so on.
Prodigy dial-up internet access.
Doom95
Starsiege (and EarthSiege 2 come to think of it since that was my first entry into the series)
SkiFree
Shovelware shareware discs with dozens of old Windows 3.x 16-bit programs with very few native Win9x stuff.
BadToys 3-D
JezzBall
countless others I can't exhaustively list right now...
EDIT: OH YEAH I JUST REMEMBERED... THE X-FILES THEME!
“I am the dragon without a name…”
― Κυνικός Δράκων
Windows 95 ? Uhm, not so much. I pretty much switched from 3.1 to 98SE/XP. 😅
And my papa always tried to keep his 95 desktop clean.
But if Win95 era (90s era) software on other Windows systems also counts, then I'd say..
WinGIF
Factura
Graphics Workshop
Paintshop Pro
VisualBasic 1 to 6
Turbo Pascal for Windows
MS FoxPro
CompuServe WinCIM 1.3 (or 3.x)
Internet Explorer 3.x
Lotus Organizer
Corel Flow
Photo Stacker Plus
QuickTime 2.x
Autodesk Animation Player for Windows
Timeworks Publisher
Works for Windows 2.x
AutoSketch for Windows
cA dB-Fast
dBase for Windows
Kodak Photo CD Access Software
Netscape 2.x
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
//My video channel//
Agent for newsgroups
My first machine with Win95 came with one of those "Internet in a box" pre-installs so I remember using Mosaic as my first browser.
AOL
Works for Windows
The machine came with Win 3.11 but had a free upgrade to 95 via mail as soon as it was released. Bought the machine in I think march or april of 95. We picked up that First Aid utilities application a few days after upgrading.
I remember that EVERYTHING had that damn Windows 95 cloud aesthetic to box art, etc.
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B
COMMAND.COM
I had trouble letting go of DOS...
wrote:Agent for newsgroups
I had completely forgotten about Forte Agent. I used the crap out of that. Haven't used it since the late 90s though.
wrote:wrote:ISS WinPlay
The original! This was the definitive MP3 player until WinAmp took over.
Nice clean interface, produced by the creators of the MP3 format. Great little player.
There was MacPlay3 also. I really have to try this one time.. It's a piece of history, after all. :)
Edit: Pic added. Its appearance is quite similar to the famous Windows version (link).
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
//My video channel//
Old School Windows 95 App's
Microsoft Dos Box (The Orginal Version of Dos Box)
Coral Pain Shop Pro
Mozilla Firefox Aka Netscape
Win Amp 5
Comet Cursor
Windows 95 Tips
Force Ware
Kaaza
Gator
Epsxe
DooM'sDay High Detail Graphic's Engine for DooM
Samrt F.T.P.
Giess Aka The Vapor Wave Screen Saver For Win Amp
wrote:COMMAND.EXE
I had trouble letting go of DOS...
COMMAND.COM. There is no such thing as COMMAND.EXE, except the cmd.exe that came with NT-generation Windows.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.
