Apple Aperture - still missing it‘s DAM and automatic library management capabilities which IMHO were lightyears ahead of what Lightroom is even today
Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?
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#42Notational Velocity ( https://notational.net/ ) a fast, no frills note-taking app for Mac.
There’s a fork called NVAlt that is maintained
Re: Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?
#43Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry: The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good…
WebKit and Blink are two different engines. They split off 9 years ago. There’s no such thing as a WebKit monoculture. There may be a Blink monoculture depending on how much you care about mobile browsers, mobile Safari is still very popular especially in the US.
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#44SoftICE
Is there even a modern equivalent?
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#45Google cloud print. To share physical printers on the cloud. Google reader. For RSS with blazing speed.
I discovered that my Android phone can now print directly without Google cloud print when in the same wifi.
Yes but what I used to was to print, online receipts, invoices, etc. In my mothers house. That way I could help her.
Or ask a friend for his color printer and send stuff there.
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#46Old OS Printer Drivers - I can deal with a lot of old programs, just run them on old computers, but being able to print when classic printers are either in short supply or hard to maintain is an issue. So I would advocate for having modern printers with some open or legacy OS driver support.
Alternative would be having some printer server/emulator which interfaces and emulates as popular legacy printer(s) and serves it out appropriately to modern devices.
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#47Also, Dillo. Dillo. Seriously. I have more than enough resources to run Ungoogled-Chromium with the custom crapware and FX removed, but that small browsers rocks on a highly loaded machine
when I am compiling some SlackBuilds such as WebKitGTK4.
The repo is at https://hg.dillo.org/dillo. You need Mercurial, FLTK devel libraries and MBedTLS. With a proper user Agent such as Lynx or the PSP one it will work for a big list of sites.
No JS, but meh. HN works, so does Lobste.rs, Simply Translate, 68k.news...
Re: Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?
#48Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry: The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good…
I would be happy enough if Dillo parsed the video and audio tags as links.
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#49Any cool DOS game.
You can still play those using Dosbox (an emulator) and downloading the games from various archives. There are also browser ports for several games. One of the recent ones I saw, which was also shared here, was Prince of Persia ( https://princejs.com/ ).
POP has a native source port for any platform, SDLPOP.
Also, https://osgameclones.com has zillions of source port and clones for everything.
Stack ScummVM on top and lots of DOS games can be replayable today without burning zillions of cycles at DOSBox.
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#50Ship GitHub client: https://www.realartists.com/blog/ship-is-open-source.html
Still nothing that comes close to UX of it.