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Workbench or the Turbo * IDEs.
Microsoft 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…
QGIS is free/open source and can do a lot of this type of stuff too. More like ArcGIS than MapPoint.
Turbo Delphi Explorer. It was a free version of Delphi 6. They still do have a Starter Edition, of course, with some restrictions, which TDE had too. But IIRC, TDE was available in both Win 32 and .NET versions. Borland Sidekick, a pop-up TSR productivity utility. Turbo C 2.x MS QuickC Probably a few others I need to remember.
Have you tried FreePascal/Lazarus[0]? It seems like a spiritual successor to Delphi. [0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
[1] I call Free Pascal FPC for short (for Free Pascal Compiler) to distinguish it from the common use of FP to mean Functional Programming).
Here's a digital clock I created with Lazarus:
Digital Clock created in FreePascal / Lazarus:
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/04/digital-clock-created-in...
Also feel free to check out these other clocks I created earlier, both in Python:
A simple alarm clock in Python (command-line) - this one has a good real-life use, see the post for details:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/11/a-simple-alarm-clock-in-p...
Jal-Tarang, and a musical alarm clock in Python:
https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/jal-tarang-and-musical-al...
Here are two more I created earlier:
Digital Clock v1.0 - in 3 lines of Delphi code:
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2010/08/digital-clock-v10-in-3-l...
A digital clock for Windows:
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-digital-clock-for-wind...
It had all the right features for graphics editing targeted at the web. Mixing vector layers with raster layers, both fully featured, is still something many modern programs either don't have, or half-ass.
And it was dirt cheap, compared to the competition.
VALDOCS. I had an Epson QX-10 with a Z-80 processor, 256K, and green monochrome screen when 486's were out and the 1st gen Pentium was coming out, but with VALDOCS I was able to do all of my homework the same as anyone using the Microsoft Office Suite. (VALDOCS could do word processing, spreadsheets, and charts and graphs.) It was more responsive on an 8-bit computer than modern bloated Office software, and so much e…
* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…
Interesting, haven't had performance problems with email in about well, never. Been using Thurderbird for a decade. Not perfect, but slowness isn't a problem.
I have a few software packages in mind: 1. The Genera operating system for Symbolics Lisp machines. Ever since I've gotten bitten by the Smalltalk and Lisp machine bugs, I've been wanting to use Genera, but I was born at the beginning of the last AI winter, and unfortunately the operating system is still proprietary, with no word about whether or not it will become open sourced. It's regrettable that the proverbial b…
Its use on the open Internet was a nobrainer from an implementation perspective, although it killed the reputation of the entire thing (make a Google search for ActiveX and 99% of the content you'll find is about its use on Internet Explorer) and .NET cemented its demise.
But yeah, the idea is solid and actually other platforms had similar tech, like BeOS's replicants, AmigaOS's... something (i don't remember the name :-P) and i think KDE's KParts was originally supposed to be something like ActiveX.
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Inoreader looks like flipboard or Feedly. I didn’t know about The Old Reader and I will give it a try.
> Inoreader looks like flipboard How is this (random screenshot found via image search) not basically the same as Google Reader? http://kingofgng.com/media/20150116_inoreader.png And that's not even the densest display option.
HyperCard. It's been decades and I've still never found a better way to make simple GUI applications.
* Windows Phone. We need a third viable option in the mobile space. This week we are concerned about the loss of a browser engine, recognizing this is unhealthy for the market. Windows Phone was terrific in many ways and recent concepts by fans such as @boxnwhisker (Harry Dohyun Kim) [1] show how beautiful the Metro design could be today. * Microsoft Image Composer. A little known sprite-oriented graphic arts program…
Windyws Phone's tile setup is still the best home screen setup for mobile. As I peep at my Android home with pretty wallpaper with acres of bhank space and uninformative icons, I pine for the informative, intelligent WP tiles. Ms Image Composer was unbeatable for digital and web stuff back then. Photoshop was rather clumsy in comparison. As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow , how i…