I personally would really like the game LHX back again, with slightly upgraded graphics, but without the bloat most modern games come with. Also, Stunts 4D driving was really a time killer for me and my friends.
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#72WinAmp 2. I still use Audacity in "classic" mode to make it feel like WinAmp.. Old habits die hard :) Going further back, I think Symantec JustWrite was an extremely fine piece of software; I remember it being blazingly fast on the 486 monster I had at work. But my glasses may be rose-tinted :)
There is a fairly new version here btw https://www.winamp.com/ that is fairly back to the roots.
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#73Workbench or the Turbo * IDEs.
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#74FreeHand
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#75I want an app which let's me design webscrapping workflows visually.
Then once workflow is completed, upload it to cloud and run N instances of this workflow.
There was a software called SpiderClimber for this. Unfortunately, the author disappeared and software too.
Edit: i want to extract ad banners from websites, think Google ads or any other ad network ads. Pop ads etc... Including redirect sequence and page's screenshot and source.
This task is not simple as extracting a table as CSV from a webpage.
I've struggled to find anything which is flexible enough to:
1. Visit porn/torrent and other shady websites
2. Save the banner image
3. Click the banner link and save the redirect sequence
4. Screenshot the page which appears after clicking the banner and save its HTML source.
Why i want to do this? To extract scam ads run by scammers. I want to create a directory of all ads which can be queried to see what ads are running. If anyone is running fake news ads or spreading hate speech, they'll caught using this method.
Not for adfraud.
My profile contains my email, if you want to discuss, just email me.
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#76Games on iOS: Flight Control, Flight Control HD and Flight Control Rocket, all by Firemint (later Firemonkeys after being bought by EA). I have an old device on which I can play a couple of these until those devices die. Features to add: I wouldn’t really add anything more than what they had. Pay for resurrection: Yes, I’d certainly be willing to pay for their resurrection. But EA is a lousy company for games. So I h…
Flight Control was ported to Mac and PC. Yeah I know touch controls are different but it still works great
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#77Norton Commander.
Nothing since has ever made me feel so in control of my file system.
There have been a few clones, but never quite hit the spot.
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#78Brief, the text editor, from Underware. It's still the best code editor I've ever used. Super fast, underpins written in a Lisp-y dialect (later C-ish). The ^G feature would pop up a list box listing all functions in the file and I could select where I wanted to jump to. It's still a feature I wish I had in any modern editor.
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#80Google reader
I've been using https://www.inoreader.com and am pretty happy with it as an alternative. It has a lot of the same keyboard shortcuts, which is really all I want.