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* Sun Microsystems (not oracle) * Psygnosis (before becoming subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment) * IRN BRU candy bars
Can we add Solaris Zones to the list? I mean I know they're not technically dead, but it can't be long till it's gone can it?
A diverse CPU collection. For a while we had some good alternatives to Intel x86. Alpha, Sparc, Motorola 68k, PowerPC, MIPS. Now we just have 32 and 64 variants of x86 and ARM. I guess powerpc is technically not dead yet (which is good!) although the new 64 bit powerpc is little endian I think... As for companies, Sun Microsystems. I'd like to think that Sun, if they were still around, would be handling Java better t…
MIPS is alive and well - almost all consumer routers run it.
Logitech MX Revolution mouse. I’ve tried their subsequent mice but none of them feel quite the same.
The old crispy bubbly apple pies at McDonalds. I think they are still like that in Europe. I had one in London a couple years ago and almost got a dozen to smuggle home.
I miss variety in smartphone design. Everything looks the same these days. Samsung and Apple endlessly copy each other and virtually every smartphone has the same phablet aesthetic now. I miss the variety in shapes, sizes, physical keyboards, gaming features, operating systems, etc.
Demonoid, a private torrent tracker. It had a wide range of quality files and the enforced ratio kept seeders around.
Nowadays I wouldn't have much use, but as a student they were godsent.
Old-school Winamp. I use Spotify these days, but man it was fun to customise skins and play with the awesome visualisers. Half-Life 3 would also be nice, but I guess it was never "around" to begin with.
Still works. Winamp is still my main music player (with classic skin, of course). I run it through Wine on Fedora 28. Some things cause crashes, but the only things I really care about are MilkDrop, the media library, and playlists and they all work fine. I've never been able to find something that comes close to MilkDrop.
Here are my installation instructions (after installing Wine) although I haven't tried them fresh in a few years (Fedora and Wine upgrades haven't screwed anything up):
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
$ chmod +x winetricks
$ ./winetricks -q directmusic directplay directx9 gdiplus ie8 mfc42 wmp10 windowmanagerdecorated=n
$ ./winetricks winamp
Launch Winamp
To get rid of some weird font issues: Right click Winamp > Options > Preferences... > General Preferences > Playlist > select Use font: MS Sans Serif
To fix bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12060: Winamp > Options > Preferences... > Plug-ins > Visualization > MilkDrop v2.25c > Configure > WINDOWED settings > Uncheck Integrate with winamp skinWestwood Studios. I loved their games including their final game C&C Renegade, even though EA rushed Renegade out the door and shut the studio down.
11 inch Macbook Air. Best laptop I have ever owned