Emerald_EarthWhat very old/unmaintained software do you still use today, and why?
Cool Edit Pro. Such a great audio editing tool.
What does it do better than Audacity?
It remains on my computer since 1998 so I don’t need to learn any new tools.
Mostly kidding…but to be honest, I have just never had any need to try any other tool…it works perfectly for what I need to do (multi-tracking, sequencing, mixing). There’s almost nothing I would want it to do that it doesn’t…so I just stick with it.
Hey, I remember when CoolEdit came… It was awesome.
But for me Audacity does all CoolEdit did.
kender242Scanner 2 http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Easy way to visualize and clean up disk space
“This tool uses a sunburst chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once.”
I’ll have to check that out. I’ve been using Space Sniffer. I like how it updates in realtime.
MP3Gain, the latest stable version was released in 2005 and I’ve been using it since then. It adjusts the volume level of MP3s using ReplayGain so that you don’t have to change the volume between tracks. There may be newer software out there that does the same thing, but MP3Gain is free/open source and it works fine for my needs. I still maintain a library of MP3s, partly because my car is too old to do Carplay/Android Auto, but it can play MP3s from a USB drive.
I know it’s far from what you asked, but the closest answer to the question is this Minecraft resource pack made for a few versions back.
What can I say, I keep my software up-to-date.
It’s only old by the standards of phone apps, but I use a tricorder app from 2013 that got taken down by paramount for IP infringing. It presents more or less raw data from phone sensors in an LCARS interface.
CrackhappyI use windirstat all the time, although it’s slow as shit I like the way it works.
RustedSwitchIn a previous life I did the occasional custom home theater remote control program job. Like Harmony, but better (I think). Anyway, my personal remote is a 20 year old remote with programming software from the same era.
The connection to the pc to upload the program is a serial Jack. My small form factor pc doesn’t have room for a permanent serial card, so I use a serial to usb adapter that’s 15 or so years old.
I’ve got the drivers for all of this stuff tucked away in multiple backups, alongside .txt files with notes on how to get it all going again, when, like this week, I add new gear and need to tweak the remote.
I guess Harmony counts for me, since Logitech officially killed the product. The day my Harmony account stops working will be a sad day.
I have been looking for an alternative. Haven’t really found one yet.
CurlyWurlies4AllDoes WinRAR count?
WinRAR is under active development. Also, 7-Zip.
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Up until recently I was using FreeCap which is a SOCKS5 wrapper to allow me to connect to my home stuff from work (via an SSH tunnel). They didn’t allow VPNs but were cool with me doing that. My new job doesn’t allow that, so I guess it’s retired for the time being.
RPG Maker XP was released in 2004, nearly 20 years ago, and yet the entire Pokemon fan game community uses it exclusively. Pokemon Essentials, by far the best framework for creating fan games, is written for it, and is still maintained to this day. It’s such a large complicated project, with a huge ecosystem of plugins and resources, that it’s impractical to migrate to the newer RPG Maker software that has been released since.
Pokémon Reborn has been one of the best Pokémon fangames I’ve enjoyed. Never thought I’d see the day it was completed, but it was last year. It supports wondertrade, online battles, trading and more, and has custom terrain effects.
everyI use the venerable lynx text browser [1] every day. It emerged slightly after the release of html and the web in the early to mid 90’s.
I don’t use a text browser but I do use elinks to make sure my website works properly in it.
I use Vim at work every single day and couldn’t live without it. It’s incredibly powerful. Released in the 70s but is still very much in development.
It’s absolute madness to use a text editor with only one mode.
Navigating is half the battle!
Unironically this. I’m always itching for Vim keybinds now. I have a plugin for Firefox and DBeaver. I even got Vim keybinds and modals in my terminal lol nothing is safe.