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Re: Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

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Post by Uptrenda »

p2detar wrote: post #45

Additionally to Winamp, I guess what I will always remember Nullsoft with is also "NSIS - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System" [0]. In a previous job I sat down, read the docs and wrote a Windows-Installer for our product using this thing, since management didn't want to pay for InstallShield. What made quite an impression on me back then was the fact that the scripting language somewhat resembles assembly. [1] Also,…

NDIS is extremely elegant and runs on just about every windows version. It also has plugin support for almost anything you can imagine. I used it for my concept project of building a re-usable installer for python modules: it takes the installers own file name as the input for what python module to install. So you can basically have a new installer for any python module just by renaming a file

https://github.com/robertsdotpm/win-auto-py3 (example exe points to resources on an old server i no longer have. so won't run but all the files and code are there and work.)

I wrote this when vibe coding wasn't a thing, could be a cool idea though to add mirror support for some resources the installer downloads and fallback to archive.org if hosts are down. That's one of the very cool things about NSIS -- everything you need for it already exists. Downloader, authentication, compression, all kinds of neat stuff. There's some many plugins for NSIS you could build working software just out of NSIS alone.

Re: Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

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Post by Tade0 »

AlyssaRowan wrote: post #24
SyneRyder wrote: post #14

For those who might not know: > With Nullsoft gone and Frankel spending his time building a special-effects computer for his electric guitar... I don't know what happened to the Jesusonic he was building then, but Justin Frankel ended up creating Reaper, the cross-platform Windows/Mac/Linux digital audio workstation that is a solid Pro Tools competitor in a mere 16 MB download: https://www.reaper.fm/ The installer fo…

It's a straight line from Jesusonic to Reaper: Jesusonic JSFX script is in Reaper, and there's a whole selection of stock JS plugins that come with it and it's actually quite easy to program.

That's one of my favourite features of Reaper - the fact that scripts I wrote for WinAmp as a teenager can be transplanted there.

Re: Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

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Post by sulam »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #43

That year range definitely surprised me. In my generation I suspect many of us think of winamp as being just sort of always there, but of course it wasn't. When you add it up, it really only existed for 2026 as the time range, I think 1996 is defensible start for when the web becaome accessible to some portion of people in the first world). Hell, I probably have coworkers who were born after the dissolution of nullso…

I won’t nitpick too hard because the percentage doesn’t move much, but Netscape went public in ‘95 so it’s got to be before that. The minimum would be ‘91 (first website) but that’s too early. Super geeky but I will peg it at April 1 1995, which was the first release of Apache HTTP.

Re: Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

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Post by jimmaswell »

scott01 wrote: post #72
embedding-shape wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Reaper is currently a de-facto standard for game audio design Such a wide and strong claim, I'm not sure there is a single de-facto choice specifically for "game audio design", I've seen most major DAWs, including Reaper, to be used for game audio. If anything is close to a de-facto standard in video game audio, it'd be Wwise and/or FMOD as audio middlewares, then whatever the artists happen to be familiar with for…

From my experience, it’s very rare to see someone not using Reaper for sound design. Some use Pro Tools or Cubase, but they aren’t as common as Reaper. It really has no competition due to how easy it is to prepare dozens of assets with a single render (all with correct naming and loudness) as well as extensions that add features no other DAW has (e.g. Global Sampler, stuff by LKC Tools, etc.). It’s not very good for…

It seems fantastic for music to me. I've made some music in it myself. What is it missing?

Re: Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

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Post by corford »

tolerance wrote: post #66

This Frankel guy apparently had a hand in a lot of the tech that surrounded my youth. [0] Looking back and looking forward I understand why software developers became these larger-than-life-or-at-least-an-incrementally-past-the-norm personalities in the late 20th/early 21st century. And I understand why people (particularly in the software development industry) feel so deeply about how technology influenced/s their l…

To this day Justin maintains https://www.askjf.com/ if you ever want to ask him something :)

Re: Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

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Post by valdiorn »

SyneRyder wrote: post #14

For those who might not know: > With Nullsoft gone and Frankel spending his time building a special-effects computer for his electric guitar... I don't know what happened to the Jesusonic he was building then, but Justin Frankel ended up creating Reaper, the cross-platform Windows/Mac/Linux digital audio workstation that is a solid Pro Tools competitor in a mere 16 MB download: https://www.reaper.fm/ The installer fo…

Reaper has been growing MASSIVELY in popularity in recent years. It's actively on course to topple Pro Tools as the de factory standard for recording studios. It was considered "the little guy" and a niche product just a few years ago but industry professionals have been discovering it and it's popularity is going exponential.

Re: Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

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Post by Octoth0rpe »

sulam wrote: post #93
Octoth0rpe wrote: post #43

That year range definitely surprised me. In my generation I suspect many of us think of winamp as being just sort of always there, but of course it wasn't. When you add it up, it really only existed for 2026 as the time range, I think 1996 is defensible start for when the web becaome accessible to some portion of people in the first world). Hell, I probably have coworkers who were born after the dissolution of nullso…

I won’t nitpick too hard because the percentage doesn’t move much, but Netscape went public in ‘95 so it’s got to be before that. The minimum would be ‘91 (first website) but that’s too early. Super geeky but I will peg it at April 1 1995, which was the first release of Apache HTTP.

The difference comes down to focusing on what we think of as the core infrastructure of the internet (the first modern browser, apache), versus _access_. I think there was a pretty big jump around 1996, 1997 in dialup subscribers. To get geekier though, we could actually peg it at late 1993/1994, the eternal september.

I think I'll stick with 1996 though :)

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