Picassa, which Google killed.
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#12Crimson: Steam Pirates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson:_Steam_Pirates
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#13Corel Painter 6
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#14Microsoft PDS (aka Quickbasic). QB64 is an okay substitute but since it's compiled rather than interpreted it loses a lot of the magic that made BASIC special back in the day.
I think QuickBasic is a compiled language but QBasic is the interpreted one?
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#15Winamp (for macOS, for instance)
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#16Microsoft PDS (aka Quickbasic). QB64 is an okay substitute but since it's compiled rather than interpreted it loses a lot of the magic that made BASIC special back in the day.
I think QuickBasic is a compiled language but QBasic is the interpreted one?
so QuickBasic (4.5, etc) give you the option to compile your source for purposes of distribution but while you are coding/testing/etc it's purely interpretive.
QB is the free to use bundled version for MS-DOS that doesn't have this feature.
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#172017 SketchUp
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#18Eudora, an old email client.
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#19A birds eye view, turn based game, based on the Aliens film. I played it on apple Mac maybe 25+ years ago. Have never been able to find it since. It always ended with the famous quote from the film "it's game over man, game over".
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#20RescueTime before they removed most features. The old version still technically exists, but is unmaintained and broken. It's really the weirdest regression I have seen in consumer software.