Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Saying goodbye to old software

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Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 08-28-2004, 04:54 PM:

Yep, I'm cleaning out the closet. I need room for future 'old software'..... These are the titles bound for the landfill.

"Movie Select from Paramount Interactive" Ahh, those pre- internet days. Who need this or the one from Microsoft when you have the IMDB? Regardless, though, with it's limited titles, this had dust on it shortly after I got it.

"Star Wars Dark Forces" I like this game. I think this was one of the first to put 'advisories' on the box, probably really to encourage kids to buy. This one says "RSAC Advisory - Violence: Humans Killed." Cool!

"Easy CD Creator 4" Not real old, but they introduced the 'CD guide' dude, who was pretty annoying. Besides, it was with this software I learned how many hooks Adaptec puts into your registory, and how impossible it is to get rid of it when you find NERO is better.

"Sound Blaster 16PCI" .... two of them. OK, not really sofware... but I learned how big Sound Blaster had become when they sent me the wrong flash upgrade, which after I loaded it, put the first board in never-never land. Sound Blaster told me tough luck, and wanted $30 to fix their mistake, so I just bought another one.

"IBM DOS 3.10 with BASIC" The days when an operating system that actually did good stuff fit on a 360kb floppy. GOTO dumpster END.

"Autodesk Generic CADD" I spent a lot of time learning this, only to have it dumped by Autodesk in favor of Autocad Light.

"Corel Draw 3.0" Versions 1 and 2 were not so good, but they seem to have gotten their act together by V3. Probably the only software I've stuck with for every revision - still use it today, but I'm currently only at V9 since it does everything I need for the simple drawings I do.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-28-2004, 05:11 PM:

As far as CorelDRAW goes, version 9 is about all you need. I've never upgraded past this one for two reasons. One, it has most of the main features any vector drawing program needs. Two, it performs faster than the version 10, 11 and 12 upgrades. Why upgrade when the upgrades don't give you anything to get your work done faster? Application sluggishness is an even bigger problem with the more recent versions of Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand. The Adobe Studio CS suite offers some great applications; however, I would still do most of my vector art creation in Corel because it works so much faster.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 08-28-2004, 05:43 PM:

I mostly keep old software and games. They don't take much space and sometimes I like to look at old stuff for nostalgic reasons. It reminds me of when I was young and "Prince of Persia" was the coolest game ever seen on a monitor.

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 08-28-2004, 06:41 PM:

I have a ton of old games that I can't run on my current XP system due to various compatibility issues. Next time I get a new comp or reformat my HD I think I'm going to set up a dual boat system with 98/XP so I can actually install these old dinosaurs and play them once in a while, just for kicks.

Posted by David Buckley (Member # 2600) on 08-29-2004, 02:07 AM:

or better than dual boot, or waiting for your next PC - Microsoft Virtual PC. About a hundred bucks, then you can run W98, W95, DOS, Linux etc as guest operating systems all simultaneously on your XP desktop.

If you need access to multiple operating systems, for development or testing stuff, or you just want multiple installs of a product that doesnt permit it, this thing is the answer. VPC really rocks.

This is another one of those Microsoft "We liked the product so much we bought the company" things. And the really scary thing is its even better than when under Connectix's ownership...

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 08-29-2004, 02:27 AM:

...except that it now requires a Microsoft OS as host.

Posted by David Buckley (Member # 2600) on 08-29-2004, 03:06 AM:

I know Microsoft are a greedy, aquisitive company, but I though that the Mac was still a non-Microsoft product, and VPC is still available for Macs.

Its the OS/2ers who are the losers, as part of MS's obsession with destroying all traces of it...