leileilol wrote:

Old School Windows 95 App's

Jasc Pain Shop Pro

Fixed 😉

Also some applications/versions were definitely not around at the time of Win95. For example Kazaa was introduced after Napster's shutdown which was after 2000 and Winamp 5 was XP era (2004?).

Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azymuth

There are many things that would satisfy this thread title.

There was also these so called desktop companions. Like a cat or mouse. It's like a virtual pet, that roam around your desktop,sleep or do something, and you can do certain things to them. There was also these stripping girls companion, which I never used (because I was still at college and my only internet access was at the cybercafe), but thought it was funny.

They were named Neko and Sheep, I recall. XEyes or just eyes was also popular. 😀
Your Win 3.1 install is not complete unless...

Edit: There were also more sophisticated "virtual pets", like Tamagotchi clones or Fin Fin.
Creatures! could perhaps also be seen as a such, though that's maybe more of an advanced life simulation.

There's also the Catz and Dogz pet programs that ran well under Windows 95 and not so well on anything higher than 95 (for some stupid reason).

There was also a alien version of it but I forgot what it was called... (Orbz maybe?)

Download managers! So important in those days when multi-megabyte downloads could be interrupted, forcing you to restart from the beginning. GoZilla was great before it became laden with adware.

Bonzi Buddy

Winamp, WinZip, IrfanView, QuickTime, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, GetRight, ICQ, mIRC, ZOC, MSN Gaming Zone / Zone Friends, CoolEdit 96, Photoshop 5.0, F-Prot Antivirus. I think that's about it for the important stuff. A couple of games were mainstays for years.

Weren't aquarium screensavers all the rage too? I remember El-Fish from the MS-DOS days, but it seemed there were some designed for Win95 too.

Wait, I got one: Quarterdeck Cleansweep! Because uninstalling in Win95 is a pain.

Sweet to see you guys stil remebering what where used back then in those days, the oldest game i remember wich where my first one was somekind of snake charector named sammy, i think?

Nic-93 wrote:

Sweet to see you guys still remembering what was used back then in those days. The oldest game I remember which was my first one was some kind of snake character named Sammy, I think?

Jake and Sammy were the snakes in QBasic Nibbles, first included with MS-DOS 5. That has nothing to with Windows 95.

Desktop Destroyer 🤣

DracoNihil wrote:

There was also a alien version of it but I forgot what it was called... (Orbz maybe?)

OddBallz

Besides the "usual" stuff that has been mentioned, for some strange reason when I think about Windows 95 a stupid Beavis & Butthead game comes to my mind... I remember it ran on windowed mode by default and it was based on some sort of mini-games, in one of which you had to spit on pedestrians from a balcony 🤣

I think that game must have come out pretty early in the Windows 95 days, when most decent games were still DOS-based, because I recall equating Win95 gaming with this kind of silly games for a while.

Virtual Stupidity was one of Win95's early killer apps to "prove" it's a gaming-capable OS to go against the better DOS games.

mIRC
ICQ
Winsock FTP
Netscape Communicator
Getright
Winamp
Kali/GameSpy

I remember when we bought a Pentium1/75, which is still in working condition, it came with Win3.11. Then computer man from my father's job came and I installed WIn95 on it - althought it has CD-ROM, Win 95 was on diskettes, as I remember..

I remember Office 95, 97 with it's toolbars, some version of Corel Draw, Photoshop 4.0 and multimedia encyclopedias - like Encarta, Britannica and Grollier. Also fun, but a little bit useless Cinemania'94.

Shponglefan wrote:

COMMAND.COM

I had trouble letting go of DOS...

That made me laugh!
(also true as Win95 was on my 486 so lots of dropping back to DOS for games)

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Wait, I got one: Quarterdeck Cleansweep! Because uninstalling in Win95 is a pain.

That was going to be my random program!

Rest is pretty standard. This is on a 486 remember, so no fancy mp3 or movies for me!

Installed from PC User Australia mag CD's I had a subscription
latest version of Paint Shop Pro
latest version of WinZip
latest version of Acrobat reader
Netscape 3 for browsing and pop email

MS Works 3.0 Which came bundled with the PC
MS Plus! that I "found" for Doublespace and treating zip files as folders.

Edit: Also Norton Utilities, mostly Diskdoctor for damn floppy's and Speed disk to scrape every bit of performance I could from the old girl

AOL - later a dialup link to local ISP
Netscape
Lotus SmartSuite
Paint Shop Pro v3.xx
AWE32 soundfont utility
Voyetra Sequencer Plus Pro
Cool Edit
SimCity 2000
DOOM map editors