journey_man 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I used to have boxes and boxes of floppies for all sorts of stuff. One compiler I had came on 70 floppies. The install was tedium itself. I tossed all the floppies some time ago. I thought about keeping some for old times sake, but discovered that most of the older ones were toast anyway. The only thing I kept was a game with text based graphics called Larn. Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I found a box of 5-1/4" floppy disks a couple of years back and thought for a brief moment, "hey, there might be something good on here," then wised up to the fact that it was nearly impossible to find anything to read them, so I chucked the whole lot. I'm sure whatever was on there I had backed up to 3-1/2" and subsequently to CD... oh well, no great loss. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I've still got a box with 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives installed (and working!) So, one day, when I'v absolutely nothing else to do, I'm gunna drag out that box of old floppies and trawl through them. Might be some gems of technological wizardry in there, you just never know! Never did get into games, so the chances of there being anything playable are remote in the extreme. Actually, the chance of there being anything readable on some of them (well over 20 years old!) is remote! But it'll be ?fun? having a look. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Anyone else remember the "loading" screen for Speccy games? Wasn't it like a screen full of interference coupled with noise that sounded like a dialup modem? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 It was just that. Those 16K games took an age to load. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I really like Word actually and the formatting tools in 07 are easy to use and very useful. It took a while to get used to it but that Ribbon thing is good to use. Getting worked up over a word processer? It's a bit silly isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Originally Posted By: happyhappy Getting worked up over a word processer? It's a bit silly isn't it? Only if you don't care how well the thing does what you want. 80:20 rule applies. 80% of users will use up to 20% of the functionality of any software, the remaining 20% of users will use anything up to 80% of the functionality. Almost nobody uses 100%! AND the bits that make up the 20% are different between users. Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I remember the first version of Works. Is that still totally crap? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 that is still crap cos it was dropped. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 remember displaywrite? That was so shit, it made the word shit redundant. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted September 20, 2008 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted September 20, 2008 Yes I think I remember that one. I remember spending way to much time learning Corel Draw and for it to be a big waste of time. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Corel Draw is very useful! If you want to produce images that are more manipulable than paint! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted September 20, 2008 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted September 20, 2008 Actually I quite enjoyed learning it at the time. But once I had, I had to then learn Photoshop. Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Deluxe Paint IV on the Amiga. Nice animation proggy. also Octamed the fantastic tracker program. and who remembers those demo floppies. audio visual extravaganzas that were weird and trippy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene Link to post Share on other sites
Amos in Utsunomia 0 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Oh I remember the Amiga my older brother had one and it was AMAZING. ( Is it still? ) Link to post Share on other sites
orinoco 0 Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 "MS Flight Simulator for DOS" Got that one too! I wonder how it looks now Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Worse even than you remember! Link to post Share on other sites
seedy 0 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Used to work for Adobe so I have lots of Adobe early stuff. On the other end of the scale, looking forward to getting the spanking new Creative Suite 4 next week as well. Have been on 2 for a while so time for an upgrade. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 That is one expensive suite (just looked online) I presume that must be your tool of trade? Link to post Share on other sites
seedy 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 It is - both expensive and (at a push) a tool of the trade. It was sent out yesterday so I should be installing on Monday Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 What is it seedy? Web/photo design? Link to post Share on other sites
seedy 0 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 It's basically the brand new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and other Adobe applications. I used to be in graphic design but now it is more of a hobby really. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'd love to be able to use software like that properly, just seems like a huge mountain to climb. I probably still use only a tiny fraction of Word and other stuff I have. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Cool. Heavy duty stuff. Way beyond me. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Talking of old software, tough luck if you want a new Windows 3.1 license. Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US. The various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early 1990s, were the first of Microsoft's graphical user interfaces to win huge worldwide success. They helped Microsoft establish itself and set the trend for how it makes its revenues, and what drives the company until the present day. Link to post Share on other sites
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