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I am using Windows 7 and listening music in Winamp 5.66 from 2013.
I am using Windows 7 and listening music in Winamp 5.66 from 2013.
Windows 10 1903. That's like, version N-3! And getting older!
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MS Dos 5, Windows 3.1 and Pirch16 on my Zenith 286/12 LP Plus. It's my IRC client and on 24/7 most of the time.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
DOS 6.22. Nothing like a bit of 486 fuelled gaming before I hit the hay.
94 MHz NEC VR4300 | SGI Reality CoPro | 8MB RDRAM | Each game gets its own SSD - nooice!
Total Commander, if that counts.
I use it on my modern computer, on my WinXP system as well as on my Win98 rig. There's even a version for Win 3.1 which works great too. Oh, and I also consider Norton Commander a mandatory part of my DOS 6.22 experience.
I still use Microsoft Office 2000 as my main word processing and spreadsheet software. From a copy of my original disk I got with a PC in 1999 I think.
It may be ancient but it does everything I need it to. I use Office 365 on my work laptop for Work which is undoubtedly better but 2000 is still just fine for faffing around at home.
antrad wrote on 2021-01-08, 18:02:I am using Windows 7 and listening music in Winamp 5.66 from 2013.
Winamp FTW!
MIDI comparison website: << Wavetable.nl >>
(Always) looking for: Any Wavetable daughterboard, MIDI Module (GM/GS/XG)
SCMPX from 1999. TINY footprint. Works perfectly on Windows 10. Still my go-to MP3 encoder/decoder.
AMD386/IIT387DX40, 32MB, ATi Mach64, AWE64
Compaq Prolinea 4/33, 32MB, Tseng ET4000, SB16
AMD X5, 64MB, S3 Virge/Voodoo1, AWE64
AMD K62+550, 256MB, Voodoo3, AWE64 Gold
P3 1.2Ghz, 512MB, Radeon 7500/Voodoo2 SLI, SB Live!
I use Notepad++ as my main text editor, however it's bloaty and slow to load, so for quick editing of ASCII files (batch files etc.) I still use UltraEdit 8 from 2001.
I also wrote a bunch of text-manipulation macros for it which are still useful.
Is this too much voodoo?
On a daily basis... Office 2003 (on Windows 8.1), specifically Word/Excel/Outlook.
Just went through shortcuts in Quick Launch or Start Menu that I use often:
7-zip 9.20 (2010)
kX Audio Driver 5.10.00.3550 (2009)
Creamware Scope Platform 4.5 (2004)
Creative Vienna Soundfont Studio 2.3 (1998)
Creative EAX Console 3.00.59 (2005)
Creative Soundfont Bank Manager 3.21.02 (2003)
E-MU Soundfont Librarian 1.0c (1999)
VMware 10.0.7 (2015)
Adobe Audition 3.0.1 (2008)
Guitar Pro 5.2 (2012)
XGEdit95 2.645.95 (1999)
AIMP Tools 2.61.583 (2010)
MIDI-OX 7.0.2.372 (2010)
sfArk 2.15 (2000)
SFPack 1.0.04 (1999)
MathCad 15.0 M040 (2015)
MS Office 2007 SP2 (2009)
MathType 6.9 (2013)
ABBYY Lingvo x5 (2011)
Unlocker 1.9.2 (2011)
DVD Audio Extractor 7.4.0 (2013)
FLACDrop 1.1.0.0 (2002)
Tom's MIDI Player (compiled 2015, source 2003)
WinMP3Packer 1.0.18 (2007)
RazorLame 1.1.5.1342 (2001)
AACGain 1.9 (2010)
MP3GainGUI 1.2.0.5 (2005)
VorbisGain 0.37 (2007)
MS Notepad and Character Map (2007 in XP, 2010 in 7)
Mod4win/Win 3.1
"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
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WinAMP and with the same basic skin we had in the 90s.
I used Superprint, Creative Names 3.0 and Ms Works 3.0 through 2015 for business purposes .
All are about the same age, Also I’ve never updated out of Abobe Photoshop from 1995
My office version is stuck at 2000
(likely never will upgrade)
Open Cubic Player is probably the oldest thing by far that I use on a near-daily basis.
486DX2-66/16MB/S3 Trio32 VLB/SBPro2/GUS
P233 MMX/64MB/Voodoo2/Matrox/YMF719/GUS CD3
Duron 800/256MB/Savage4 Pro/SBLive (IN PROGRESS)
Toshiba 430CDT
MS-Office, MS-Windows, MacOSX
Fujoshi-hime wrote on 2021-01-09, 03:36:WinAMP and with the same basic skin we had in the 90s.
you need this one
Win7 on my 2 personal laptops. both are just used for web browsing but the older one is also my sacrificial downloading of questionable sites PC.
While I do prefer Win7 to 10 this is more of a case of I cant be bothered to upgrade the machines.
XP/WMP 11 rig as my mp3 jukebox while working form home.
I also fully agree Office 2000-2003 is just the right mix of function and ease of use, I still find the ribbon and the 100's of function's I'll never use slow me down rather then make me more efficient.
But if I'm doing something boring like typing up a letter I'll also use my boring company laptop which has currant versions of software installed
Well yes Winamp (there is no better music player, period) and Media Player Classic (have not get into VLC) will be in my main workhorse computers forever. But every retrocomputer has Volkov Commander as the file manager and launcher. Usually all retrocomputers get a copy of Windows 3.11 FWG. Because it is so easy to install, and i have made an universal portable installer, all default, no network, vga and no sound. but you can add that later. Because the original installer is slow. Ohh and still using Windows 7 in my main machine. Still holding on.
I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.
Cyberdyne wrote on 2021-01-11, 11:29:Well yes Winamp (there is no better music player, period) and Media Player Classic (have not get into VLC) will be in my main workhorse computers forever. But every retrocomputer has Volkov Commander as the file manager and launcher. Usually all retrocomputers get a copy of Windows 3.11 FWG. Because it is so easy to install, and i have made an universal portable installer, all default, no network, vga and no sound. but you can add that later. Because the original installer is slow. Ohh and still using Windows 7 in my main machine. Still holding on.
Oh yes, I do remember Volkov Commander and some other russian NC clone from PTS-DOS..
Back in the 90s, though, VC was too new/crowded for me and I simply stuck to Norton Commander 1 and another "NC" program, maybe Northern Commander.
Perhaps, because at the time, I was scared by the abonimation that I thought NC 5 was.
- Because, that's what all NC clones tried to mimic. NC 5. Oy. 😰
"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//