Liero. Fun game. Apparently the source code has been lost.
Anything you particularly don't like about the open source remakes/successors people have made?
Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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#232Microsoft MapPoint. This was a phenomenal piece of mapping software and had features I haven’t been able to find in any of the online map replacements. When getting directions, you could designate a number of areas on the map as “avoid area”. You could map all sorts of census data. Want to colorize the map based on crime rate divided by median home price? No problem. You could import lots of data from a spreadsheet a…
Won't happen. Apps with those features get accused of being racist. https://www.npr.org/2012/01/25/145337346/this-app-was-made-f...
Please keep the whole "we are being surpressed" bs out of HN.
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#233Microsoft Money. I didn't have to give access to all my accounts to some website, or pay an annual subscription for upgrades. I got keyboard shortcuts and reports and I could search for things to find out how old my computer is or when I went to Vegas. It seems like in the physical economy, if you create something of value and you aren't making money off it, you will sell it and someone else can make money off it. Wi…
I use MS Money (2004 edition) in a Windows 2K VM. Unless I write my own finance software, I don't believe I'll ever stop.
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#234Picasa (desktop app). It hit a sweet spot for me - linux compatible, very easy to do the majority of simple edits (crop, rotate, colour tweaks), and a few other nice features. The only significant failing was that it couldn't handle removable media at all well. Shotwell is the best I've found so far, but it's not quite the right feature balance for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
For my research I have scripts that scrape various sites, downloading images and encoding the web page info into the JPG IPTC metadata fields. Upon opening Picasa, it automatically detects the newly scraped photos and imports them along with the IPTC data, which can then be searched. Picasa is amazing for its speed, indexing, and use of metadata. I wish Google had open-sourced it. I have no interest in loading these huge libraries of photos to the cloud. I'm wouldn't say I'm a data hoarder, but I have 4TB of images and don't want to pay Google or anyone else $x/mo. to store them. As more software moves to the cloud and requires us to also move our data to the cloud, I'm afraid options like Picasa will disappear.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#235Microsoft MapPoint. This was a phenomenal piece of mapping software and had features I haven’t been able to find in any of the online map replacements. When getting directions, you could designate a number of areas on the map as “avoid area”. You could map all sorts of census data. Want to colorize the map based on crime rate divided by median home price? No problem. You could import lots of data from a spreadsheet a…
I miss MapPoint too. I used it as a component of a silly web scraper I built to plan routes for visiting yard sales many summers ago. (My wife and I were really into yard sales at the time.) It would scrape down the local newspapers' classified ads, do some processing on the text, and output an optimal route ending back at home taking into account the varied starting times for the sales. It was easy to get MapPoint to do cool stuff.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#236Acta, an "outliner", which means a hierarchical text editor: http://a-sharp.com/acta/ I ended up writing most of my school essays in it. You could start with a high-level outline and recursively flesh it out until you had a complete document. The tree structure made it really easy to reorder sections at any scale. There is a successor called Opal - the last version of Acta was in 1993, and the last version of Opal wa…
Have you considered OmniOutliner for this use case?
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#237Adobe Fireworks Jagged Alliance 2 Settlers 2 Heroes of Might and Magic
Regarding JA2, just in case it's new/interesting for anyone:
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#238Picasa.
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#239Microsoft Comic Chat
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#240Truecrypt. But even if it comes back now, I would have a hard time trusting it.
There is a fork, VeraCrypt - https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html