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I use windirstat all the time, although it's slow as shit I like the way it works.

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.c

So... retro games it is. Currently playing through Broken Sword (1996).

I used Winamp all the way up until last year at which point I finally sold my gaming PC and switched over to Mac + PlayStation. Out of everything on my PC I probably miss Winamp the most!

Picasa from Google is still the best photo library management tool I've ever come across.

I still use DVD Decrypter, mostly to rip old TV Series I have where I want the files split up by episode when ripping.

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.

WoW Classic. Hardly maintained and bug rich. Circa 2004(?)

I like to post to my WordPress blog from my desktop, so I use Open Live Writer. It's allow me the option to write without being connected to the Internet. I doubt it still in development.

https://elastomania.com/

Elasto Mania (Elma). Awesome dirt bike game.

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.

I use the venerable lynx text browser [1] every day. It emerged slightly after the release of html and the web in the early to mid 90's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

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."

Nikon Capture NX2 for editing raw nikon files. Can't beat it. I've never really understood light room and importing photos. But the colour control points in NX2 were and are fantastic. There are a number of really good plugins I've bought for it too.

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.

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!

Does WinRAR count?

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.

Cool Edit Pro. Such a great audio editing tool.

It's only old by the standards of phone apps, but I use a tricorder app from 2013 that got taken down by paramount for IP infringing. It presents more or less raw data from phone sensors in an LCARS interface.

It's probably a bit newer than you mean, but I still use Cantata as my music player. Using mpd as the backend has some nice benefits, and I like the UI. I do build it with a patch to tweak the track art handling, though.

Genesis does what MyRedVest doesn’t!

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