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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
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Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#392Orion Platinum (a virtual synthesis studio app Richard Hoffman designed and released as Synapse Audio, who only make VST plugins these days.) Cool Edit Pro (win-only audio editor with some interesting effects and processes.)
I know a lot of people that used Cool Edit Pro until it just fell apart on later version of Windows. I loved it too. It...just worked? But it's still being developed by Adobe under the name of Audition.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#393I would love to use KBMS and IQ again, from AICorp. I also loved developing software for OS2.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#394Macromedia Fireworks.
Fireworks is still in my heart. I use a very old version from time to time, but i really wishes adobe released it as open source instead of killing it
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#395MacOS classic, preferably system 7.6. I would love to see it resurrected with modern features (protected memory, preemptive multitasking, a decent network stack) but without all the complexity that comes with OS X. I really miss the spatial desktop, the icons designed by Susan Kare, the way the whole system felt intuitive and understandable for a single person. I don't think I would pay for it. I'd rather take a shot…
BasiliskII can run System 7.6 . I don't know wether it meets all of your requirements though.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#396* 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…
> As for email clients, I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow, how its rendering system can be so shite.
I don't have either of those problems, using TB for a decade. Not sure what your issue could be but first thoughts would be to compact your folders and if that doesn't help, vacuum the sqlite files.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#397One tool that has not been surpassed yet is KBMS from AICorp.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#398Jasc Paint Shop Pro - before Corel picked them up and gave the software a horrible identity crisis. 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.
I have 6 installed on Windows 10.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#399Hypercard - specifically the version that was combined with QuickTime so that it understood audio and video media too, and ran on every OS.
As I have posted above, try running Mac OS 8.1 or lower on BasiliskII.
Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
With respect to windows phone, I really miss the tiles, the consistency of the metro style gui and other little details, like automatic do not disturb mode while driving or face recognition well before it became mainstream.
I completely agree and I used to work at Microsoft. Microsoft lost because they didn't have the users or the apps. It's an instructive story of how an inferior product can win. I'm not saying that happens all the time or that it's inevitable, but I think it's safe to say that's sort of what happened here.
A platform without users or apps and years late is not one I'd call superior. Good ideas are not nearly enough, as they often say around HN.