This is really Off-Topic. However, I can recommend a few programs that still run on my venerable Windows 98 box:
- AVG for anti-virus software. it still updates and runs weekly.
- HyperSnap-DX, a really, really good, basic image capture and editing program from Hyperionics. It's been letting me scan photos (with my $50 scanner) for close to ten years. Excellent value.
- Goldwave for audio editing and Multiquence for editing and sequencing audio and video. I still use Goldwave for most of my editing, althought I'm trying to move it all over to Audacity, which is nice, but nowhere near as convenient as Multiquence.
- PMMail98 -- an excellent E-Mail program that was ported from the original program written for OS/2, which I also paid for.
- EditPad, a terrific editor that I now see has been split into Lite and Pro versions.
- V, a terrific file viewer.
- WinAmp - a really nice MP3 player that keeps wanting to upgrade to something bigger, fatter and slower. I keep saying no every time I use it.
- SecureCRT and SecureFX from VanDyke Technologies -- really fantastic SSH and secure FTP clients. I don't use the SSH client much any more, but I use the secure FTP program regularly.
- 4DOS for the command line -- an absolutely dynamite replacement for DOS from JP Software; my license for this software probably goes back close to 20 years -- basically it puts the power of bash into a DOS command line. Installing this on my 386/16 sometime in 1988-89 was mind-blowing. Command line editing, filename completion, command line history, on-line help .. wow.
- TimeSlice, a terrific time tracking and billing package from Modesitt Software (used to be Maui Software). I used this during the Internet boom to track my time and bill clients. Very nice.
- WinVNC. Using a remote desktop is really, really cool.
Wow -- there are actually quite a few terrific programs that I have on that Windows machine. I haven't bought new software for that machine in quite a while, so everything is frozen at about the year 2000 when I was self-employed and using that machine as my only workstation. I now have three Linux machines in addition to the Windows machine.
The Windows machine is used mostly for audio editing and image scanning, but still (thank goodness) works fine.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
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