A birds eye view, turn based game, based on the Aliens film. I played it on apple Mac maybe 25+ years ago. Have never been able to find it since. It always ended with the famous quote from the film "it's game over man, game over".
Ask HN: What's an old software that you would like to have again?
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#22Do have some nostalgia towards ICQ, think it was great at finding people based on interest and geo-location. Dont think there is anything like that now, but i also think it cant be copied.
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#23Picassa, which Google killed.
Seconded.
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#24Lotus Notes. Still beats Outlook for searching for emails and is easily better than the pile of refuse that is SharePoint for document libraries, workflows etc.
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#25Lotus Notes. Still beats Outlook for searching for emails and is easily better than the pile of refuse that is SharePoint for document libraries, workflows etc.
I think Lotus Notes must be one of the most controversial pieces of software ever released. One of my first jobs was developing a document and project management workflow system using Lotus Notes 4 and Domino and found it not only quite quick and easy to use, but looking back I have to say Notes was way ahead of its time with a lot of what it offered. Yet every time I mention Notes among IT people, most of them who have used it respond with visceral hatred.
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#26slrn. Although I think what I actually miss is old usenet and the community I had there.
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#27Lotus Notes. Still beats Outlook for searching for emails and is easily better than the pile of refuse that is SharePoint for document libraries, workflows etc.
I think Lotus Notes must be one of the most controversial pieces of software ever released. One of my first jobs was developing a document and project management workflow system using Lotus Notes 4 and Domino and found it not only quite quick and easy to use, but looking back I have to say Notes was way ahead of its time with a lot of what it offered. Yet every time I mention Notes among IT people, most of them who h…
I started my career as a Lotus Notes developer so have a soft spot for it, even v3.
When I started with with Notes it was pre-internet as well so having a system in London and New York that could replicate only updates over a not-very high bandwidth link to the US was amazing.
But I've recently had to create document storage and approval sites with a simple workflow and it's horrible in SharePoint.
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#28- an IM that doesn’t suck. All modern IMs (Facebook Messenger and such) are garbage compared to old-school desktop apps.
- a music player that doesn’t suck. I wish I could use streaming services with Foobar2000.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think QuickBasic is a compiled language but QBasic is the interpreted one?
so QuickBasic (4.5, etc) give you the option to compile your source for purposes of distribution but while you are coding/testing/etc it's purely interpretive. QB is the free to use bundled version for MS-DOS that doesn't have this feature.
Ah thanks my memory failed me.
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#30- an IM that doesn’t suck. All modern IMs (Facebook Messenger and such) are garbage compared to old-school desktop apps. - a music player that doesn’t suck. I wish I could use streaming services with Foobar2000.
Digitally Imported will work just fine with Foobar, if you have a paid account. ;p
(They've got some sister sites if you don't like electronic dance music)