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WordStar (non-document mode). I stil remember way too many of the key sequences from ~1985!
I've been using it for most of my programming since ~ 1995.
A 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".
This one? https://www.macintoshrepository.org/64891-aliens
- an IM that doesn’t suck. All modern IMs (Facebook Messenger and such) are garbage compared to old-school desktop apps. - a music player that doesn’t suck. I wish I could use streaming services with Foobar2000.
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I think Lotus Notes must be one of the most controversial pieces of software ever released. One of my first jobs was developing a document and project management workflow system using Lotus Notes 4 and Domino and found it not only quite quick and easy to use, but looking back I have to say Notes was way ahead of its time with a lot of what it offered. Yet every time I mention Notes among IT people, most of them who h…
I started my career as a Lotus Notes developer so have a soft spot for it, even v3. When I started with with Notes it was pre-internet as well so having a system in London and New York that could replicate only updates over a not-very high bandwidth link to the US was amazing. But I've recently had to create document storage and approval sites with a simple workflow and it's horrible in SharePoint.
I would like to have that back if I could!
- an IM that doesn’t suck. All modern IMs (Facebook Messenger and such) are garbage compared to old-school desktop apps. - a music player that doesn’t suck. I wish I could use streaming services with Foobar2000.