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I apologize if this an insensitive question, but a Google search wasn't very enlightening. Did Robert Voit die, or was this prompted solely by the author's reminiscence?
Are you going to release Xylon for people to play?
Xylon looks fun to play. I miss old and simple computer games.
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for offline music collections, winamp is still the best player on windows!
If you haven't seen it, check out foobar2000 [1]. It was created by the same dude that made the original Winamp (which is now owned by Yahoo, IIRC). [1]: https://www.foobar2000.org/
PSP was one of those programs (along with Winamp) that are the hallmarks of the golden age of user experience for me. They had a lot of functionality but were very lean, a joy to use and reasonably priced. I miss the days when you didn't need a 100 MB (relatively speaking) package just to show a screen.
for offline music collections, winamp is still the best player on windows!
PSP is imho the prime example of how piratism hurts software industry. The problem was not so much that PSP was pirated, but that Photoshop was pirated. Most people did not need Photoshop, and would have been happy PSP users. But if Photoshop was "free" then it is natural that people gravitated towards the "industry-standard" "professional" tool. Piratism hurts small low-cost hobbyist software most by dislocating the…
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for offline music collections, winamp is still the best player on windows!
If you haven't seen it, check out foobar2000 [1]. It was created by the same dude that made the original Winamp (which is now owned by Yahoo, IIRC). [1]: https://www.foobar2000.org/
You might be thinking of Justin Frankel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel
The connection is still kind of cool though!
I apologize if this an insensitive question, but a Google search wasn't very enlightening. Did Robert Voit die, or was this prompted solely by the author's reminiscence?
Is there a descendent-in-spirit of PSP in active development nowadays?
I know that it's widely hated on HN but I still find GIMP is quite suitable for nearly everything. It integrates poorly on macOS though.
PSP was one of those programs (along with Winamp) that are the hallmarks of the golden age of user experience for me. They had a lot of functionality but were very lean, a joy to use and reasonably priced. I miss the days when you didn't need a 100 MB (relatively speaking) package just to show a screen.
for offline music collections, winamp is still the best player on windows!