I still use Font Renamer to manage my font collection. It works great but hasn’t received an update since 2008. Even the website looks straight out of the Windows XP era.
Elasto Mania (Elma). Awesome dirt bike game.
I use windirstat all the time, although it’s slow as shit I like the way it works.
Picasa from Google is still the best photo library management tool I’ve ever come across.
God I miss Picasa.
RPG Maker XP was released in 2004, nearly 20 years ago, and yet the entire Pokemon fan game community uses it exclusively. Pokemon Essentials, by far the best framework for creating fan games, is written for it, and is still maintained to this day. It’s such a large complicated project, with a huge ecosystem of plugins and resources, that it’s impractical to migrate to the newer RPG Maker software that has been released since.
Pokémon Reborn has been one of the best Pokémon fangames I’ve enjoyed. Never thought I’d see the day it was completed, but it was last year. It supports wondertrade, online battles, trading and more, and has custom terrain effects.
I was gonna say something like
ping, but there’s still a surprising amount of development going on for such a simple tool (40th anniversary, yay!): https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/master/ping/ping.cSo… retro games it is. Currently playing through Broken Sword (1996).
My dad insisted on using CARDFILE.EXE from Windows 3.1 up until he switched to a MacBook in 2010 or so. I still have the data file somewhere.
Gotta admit tho, it was one of the most useful applications that came with a PC back in the late 80s/early 90s. My folks put everything into that thing. They probably had about 350 cards!
I have an old cardfile file I created during University for all my contacts. I’ve lost touch with almost everyone I hung around then but it’s nice to keep it for the memories.
Well, here’s a thing I didn’t know about before that might be useful to you – a tool to extract the dated from the *.crd files.
Thanks!
MP3Gain, the latest stable version was released in 2005 and I’ve been using it since then. It adjusts the volume level of MP3s using ReplayGain so that you don’t have to change the volume between tracks. There may be newer software out there that does the same thing, but MP3Gain is free/open source and it works fine for my needs. I still maintain a library of MP3s, partly because my car is too old to do Carplay/Android Auto, but it can play MP3s from a USB drive.
Gitahead, haven’t found another graphical git solution for Linux
Up until recently I was using FreeCap, which is a SOCKS5 wrapper, to allow me to connect to my home stuff from work (via an SSH tunnel). They didn’t allow VPNs but were cool with me doing that. My new job doesn’t allow those kind of shenanigans, so I guess it’s retired for the time being.
In a previous life I did the occasional custom home theater remote control program job. Like Harmony, but better (I think). Anyway, my personal remote is a 20 year old remote with programming software from the same era.
The connection to the pc to upload the program is a serial Jack. My small form factor pc doesn’t have room for a permanent serial card, so I use a serial to usb adapter that’s 15 or so years old.
I’ve got the drivers for all of this stuff tucked away in multiple backups, alongside .txt files with notes on how to get it all going again, when, like this week, I add new gear and need to tweak the remote.
I guess Harmony counts for me, since Logitech officially killed the product. The day my Harmony account stops working will be a sad day.
I have been looking for an alternative. Haven’t really found one yet.
Scanner 2 http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Easy way to visualize and clean up disk space
“This tool uses a sunburst chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once.”
I’ll have to check that out. I’ve been using Space Sniffer. I like how it updates in realtime.
WoW Classic. Hardly maintained and bug rich. Circa 2004(?)
