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Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?
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#12Winamp
No joke. This is what I thought of before I clicked the thread.
I’m not sure if it was just a product of it’s time, but it feels like there’s nothing that quite captures the spirit of Winamp.
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#13Any cool DOS game.
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#14Media Rage, a Mac application that had a broad and rich set of features to manage metadata, find duplicates, and organize media files like music, photos, etc.
The developer’s site (Chaotic Software) doesn’t exist any longer, but here’s an old page elsewhere [1] with a description of what it could do.
[1]: http://mac.majorgeeks.com/files/details/media_rage.html
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#15Any cool DOS game.
You can still play those using Dosbox (an emulator) and downloading the games from various archives. There are also browser ports for several games. One of the recent ones I saw, which was also shared here, was Prince of Persia (https://princejs.com/ ).
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#16Space Empires 5 (a sequel would be ideal, but better support for current-gen OS's would be nice). Stellaris is good but doesn't quite stratch the itch the same way SEV did.
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#17Notational Velocity (https://notational.net/) a fast, no frills note-taking app for Mac.
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#18The short lived BlackBerry playbook It runs QNX and you could get a terminal emulator for it, through which you had a functional unix like environment with a text editor, compiler, python, etc. It's not updated and all the root certs (I think I'm using that correctly, not my area) are expired, so it doesn't connect with anything that needs https. Otherwise I think it could be an awesome terminal tablet (it needs a be…
I'd add BlackBerry phones as well. Would exchange my iphone in a jiffy to 9900 or Q10 if it would work with latest apps.
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#19Google Cardboard
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#20Symbian OS was weird, but extremely efficient. It would run circles around Android, as far as performance goes. I miss it.