Thread 106528878

Essential software for Windows 95/98/ME/2000?
Bonus points for non games

>>106528878 (OP)
>Office 97
>Winamp
>Real player (no)
>Winzip
>Norton Ghost
Good to go.

>>106528878 (OP)
is there any web app for encarta?

>>106528878 (OP)
what percentage of this board are bald childless 50+ years old nostalgia fags

>>106528891
For me it's Panda antivirus
>>106528878 (OP)
StarCraft and hexxen

DirectX 8

>>106528953
there are no 50 year old boomers on 4chan

>>106528953
im a hairy mid-30s father nostalgia-fag, thank you very much

>>106529199
they are all on /pol/ or there are bots larping as them.

>>106528899
I've studied this in great detail and have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that the world became absolutely soulless sometime between 2001 and 2002. I have thousands of examples of this.

Bryce
Poser

>>106529199
They've practically been the majority since /r/The_Donald closed.

>>106528878 (OP)
>ACDSee 3.1
>Photoshop 7.0
>Macromedia Dreamweaver
>Macromedia Flash MX
>Nero Burning ROM
>CloneCD
>Daemon Tools
>Notepad++ 5.8 or 5.9 whichever runs
>WinRAR 2.x
>eMule
>ICQ/AIM
>ReGet or other download manager

>>106529251
uncanny, isn't it
i wonder what happened

>>106529380
Jews

>>106529380
yea i wonder what happened in 2001

>>106529380
There are a lot of reasons that I have theorized for it. Cost cutting due to the stock market recession. Planned obsolescence. Push to make life seem boring in order to boost recruitment for the planned invasion of Iraq. Widespread adoption of internet connection required DRM. It does seem all connected when you really look in to it.

>>106529199
im over fiddy and been here since 2008

>>106528878 (OP)
holy shit, it's Christmas 1997 all over again
>>106529434
>>106529534
you're both right

>>106528953
why does it always have to be nostalgiafagging or being a manchild? why cant people just simply be interested in early computing? this was a significant era of human history, there are plenty of reasons to engage with it. quit being such a contrarian little pissant and learn something with your pathetic little life

>>106529380
>>106529251
nothing happened, you just nostalgiafag because you weren't old enough to properly remember the bad aspects of the 90s and just remember your innocent childhood

i didnt have encarta but i had a lot of cds from the zane home library

I appreciate the 2D revival e.g. Silksong. Games should be 100 percent interactive and free of cutscenes

>>106529646
No it's not just nostalgiafagging, I just studied the issue and came to that conclusion. 2002 is an anomaly there is nothing like it. Things started to improve by 2007 and by 2012 things were better. But between 2001 and 2002 there is a unmistakable shift where things went to complete shit in just a few short months.

>>106529234
Reminds me of (I belive Corel's?) Home Design 3D and Landscape Design 3D (or Designer, don't remember).

If you were in your 30s during and after the dot com bubble you would have thought that entire period was soulless.

>>106529707
Reddit-tier post.

>>106529623
petulant manchild rage

>>106528878 (OP)
Fritz 6.

>>106528957
Ghost was the re-imaging tool. Since Windows 98/XP would get very slow after running for a long time, users would re-image their CD to get back to the pristine state on a regular basis, usually with all their software installed. Of course this works best with your documents stored on another drive.

>>106529646
this is boomer gaslighting at it's finest. you really want to sit here and say that oh no xyz.cum didnt make any money in 2000, thats actually just as bad as the 2025 global mass surveillance being deployed alongside the implementation of complete internet censorship
boomer at best, bad faith redditor at worst

>>106530028
Anon didn't say all that though

>>106529623
>he thinks late 90s is "early computing"

WordPerfect

>>106530193
to someone born in the '00s it probably would seem like that

>>106529380
What happened was the dot com bubble burst and everything because SERIOUS and FOR WORK. Computers stopped being fun, the Internet stopped being the "world wide web", and it all just became a mundane extension of reality.

>>106528878 (OP)
Bookshelf Basics

>>106528878 (OP)
All the Windows Entertainment Packs

>>106528878 (OP)
Netscape Navigator.

>>106528953
I'm 47, not balding (but graying) and have very little nostalgia, because I know first-hand how shit hardware and software were back then.
Unlike your average zoomer, whose only experience is playing with Windows 9x in a VM that has 20 years of "hardware" improvements that didn't exist back then, and when it inevitably crashes out anyway, all they lose is the tabs in MemeRetroBrowser v0.91.5-PATCH14-ALPHA-NIGHTLY.

if you're ESL

looking back on it, it's funny how the only software i can remember standing out was games while the computer was definitely sold as a 'productivity machine'

Word 97 for me.

>>106530452
Tech hasn't shifted that dramatically since 2000, so it's not as much as a pronounced shift, compared to asking a 25 year old in 2000 about the tech in 1975. Things really took of in the 80s and 90s and warp speed.

>>106531163
*at warp
For example, in those 25 years you went from Pong graphics to Quake 3. Of course tech has continuously improved since 2000, but it seems more incremental. The smart phone is the major event, but in some ways that's a regression or a side step, as the phone hardware and capabilities have always lagged behind the PC.

>>106528878 (OP)
>Encarta
Yoomer nostalgia feels, bro!
also:
>actually educational
>useful for homework assignments
>fun multimedia and games
>no troon or woke politics
I miss the 90s and 00. Fuck wikipedo.

>>106529270
>ACDSee

There's a name I haven't heard in a LONG fuckin' time...what did it do again?

>>106530922
I know of some old offices that still run that

>>106528878 (OP)
Did you guys end up being astronauts?

Wordpad

>>106532357
image library/viewer

>>106528878 (OP)
>NoteTab Pro
Lightweight but powerful plain text editor. I still use it as my main text editor and it mogs 99% of what's out there and is faster. Still works on 9x though.

>>106530587
Based but v7 was the best one.

>>106528878 (OP)
Imagine if someone make an operating system and it actually came with online documentation that you could just open and read without being assaulted by idiocy of the web. I think I would nut.

>>106532932
Apparently they're still going to this day. I wonder if it's worth using. Their site shows a ton of other products as well. This may require a deep dive.

>>106528878 (OP)
3D MOVIE MAKER
WE'RE THE RATS

>>106528878 (OP)
I recall having a dk kids encyclopedia and there being a hot russian blonde as one of yhe kids in it.

Reinstall it last week. Russian is gone.... wtf!?!?!?!?

>>106539964
She must be found. Are you sure you're not hallucinating? What year are we taking?

Sonique audio player, cuz Winamp is for losers.

>>106529646
You got a picture of that? Shut the fuck up

>>106532178
whats a yoomer

>>106541118
Gen y = millennial

>>106537879
I think it's morphed into crap ware. Pretty sure you have to "log in" to use the software. XNView MP is today's ACDSee

>>106532178
For some reason these interactive encyclopedias would really shill MLK and Mandela.

>>106540022
1996 to 1998 i heard theres 3 versions of the dk kids encyclopedia 1.01. 1.02 and 1.03. I wonder if she was in 1.03 and i downloaded 1.01. No way to see what each version has in it

PowerDVD. Nero Buring Rom. Alcohol 120%.
I was something of a data hoarder back then.

>>106542154
everything did in the 90s

>>106532357
>>106532932
It can also capture screenshots in games when the Print Screen key fails due to a DirectX screen buffer issue.

Visual Studio 6, home. At least it was before Microsoft fucked everything up.

>>106542380
I'll will use my autistic skills.

>>106542380
Also there's a few different DK encyclopedias aimed at children. One upload to archive.org has:

space encyclopedia (2.0)
nature encyclopedia (3.0)
science encyclopedia (3.0)
childrens encyclopedia (1.0)

Maybe the Russian is in the space or science one?

>>106528878 (OP)
you faggots made me remember my childhood (no, I didn't have a computer, but my school had a bunch of windows PCs with encarta)
time flies so fast... and I've wasted my life on retarded shit. meanwhile, I always wanted kids but I have almost 0 love experience...
jesus fucking christ.

>>106542652
Start lifting, faggot.

>>106542670
I kinda am, and I'm good looking. my problems are my autism and my attitude towards women/fer of them. I just don't understand them, and I'm stubborn af, so when I see something odd, I just leave. e.g.: I left my (only) ex because she started having some weird mood swings...

>>106542699
The trick is to learn how to be confident and socialize. I say this because it's my weakest point too being somewhat of an autist (look where we are). All the intelligence and looks won't mean much if you cannot communicate to the outside world.

Emulate someone who has excellent people skills. Obviously you cannot be fat, but carrying yourself with confidence goes a long way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6BjLZKwwVo

>>106542613
memory is a tricky thing and it could be wrong. but i disstinctly remmeber it being in the childrens encyclopedia.

now i have downloaded them all and shes not in the science/nature/space ones. Which leaves me with shes in childrens enc 1.3 instead of 1.0 which is whats on archive.org. so unless someone was autistic enough to have 1.3 version saved somewhere im shit out of luck

ahhh my first crush... i guess it wasnt meant to be for me to see you again

>>106543819
there's a few things i remember seeing or playing as a kid which i haven't found since.
one i actually did find again recently, pic related. it's a pac-man like game but violent and with a map editor. spent many hours on this.
another one i really would like to find is a game that was on a friends' computer. it was a 2d side-scroller of some kind, all i remember is that the player creature was shaped like a playstation controller and that it was a bit weird (for me at the time). i just don't remember it well enough to find it

>>106543894
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA%3D%3D_7433903d-890a-4e8f-9511-b983bf4a60ca

>>106542597
youre my only hope

>>106528878 (OP)
Ehh, Winamp and some porn cdroms. Quake, WinDoom.
The essentials haven't actually changed that much but web browser has sort of replaced media faggotry.

>>106544305
thanks, but it's none of those. it's a windows game i'm sure exclusively. H2 '90s. most likely not a big name game. we played a lot of really small studio ("indie" nowadays) games

>>106544362
Sorry that's the best i can do

>>106544396
it's ok, it's likely too small a game for an ai to be aware of it. i played tons of little freeware/shareware games/demos back then. stuff you wouldn't find in a store that many people talk about or know of. not to say this was one of them, just that it could be.

pic is another random little game i enjoyed. my mum liked this one

>>106544314
Is this what you meant?

>>106544362
There's tons of unknown shareware from early 90s. I think it's probably some Commander Keen copy but who knows for sure.

>>106542253
Acrobat Reader
Download Accelerator
Jasc Paint Shop Pro
Kazaa
mIRC
MSN Messenger
ZoneAlarm

>>106544428
Yes but thats not the girl. The girl was blonde and older
But its in that category .Children of earth.

>>106544428
The issue is they changed the children of Earth in the updated version so if you have like 1.1 or 1.2 or 1.3 version the children are different so if you downloaded the one from archive.org I already perused that 1 myself and couldn't find it The only way to know for sure is to download versions 1.11.2 or 1.3 and check those instead

>>106544479
>>106544495
The search continues.

>>106544508
Bless u anon.

>>106544428
What a terrible pronunciation guide.
It should be O-LYA, O as in Opera, soft L as in Leaf, YA as in YArd.
Whoever says Oh-lee-ah vil saund laik en ilitirat forener.

>>106544537
Lol yeah i noticed shit like that too in tevisiting these old encyclopedias. A lot of weird shit but remember this was sorta before everyone had access to internet you just sorta accepted it as facts.

>>106544508
It could be that shes from one of the other dk eyewitness encyclopedias but i have revisited nature, space, and science and im not sure why she would be in those. But if your autism has the capacity to go through those as well maybe shes in the momentum inertia section of science one about ballerinas and angular momentum who knows. I know theres 1.1 1.2 and 1.3 of childrens one and i know for a fact they changed things between editions.

>>106544428
>>106544605
See this version has children just like me section

>>106544647
While this one is kids around the world

>>106544706
>>106544647
So clearly there are different versions. And i cant for the love of me find it now but i found a wiki for dk cdrom encyclopedias and it had a list of the kids names and some of them werent in the 1.0 version found of archive org version

>>106544716
Yeah I'll try something later today.

I will never pay for software until it's actually a serious field of engineering. Which will take hundreds if not thousands of years.
Likewise, normal fags won't pay for software that aren't "games" or "youtube/tiktok"
Edutainment software is dead, and it's not coming back until social media dies.

The entire point of having authoritative sources is that hardly any nobody knows what the fuck they are talking about 99.99% of the time. A trolly site like 4chan is one thing, but why governments would let normalfags do the same with facebook and twitter makes literally no sense and will be the downfall of the country.
The government has abandoned this country there is now no entry point into creative computing, general knowledge or anything really.
The government has to take control of social media and provide a modernized online public square, and completely give up control of how websites govern themselves and treat them as sovereign entities.

We need some VCS for quickly sharing and editing laws so a site can say, these US laws apply, these sets of laws don't and these are new laws. And people can just look at the diff.
The user doesn't need to know that punching someone is illegal on your site, you can't punch anyone, but instead of the admin just banning you at their discretion you can now fight a legal battle to determine if you were rightfully banned.

>>106528878 (OP)
My family had no money to afford educational software when I was young. I think I'll try it out now. What is the lightest VM program to emulate W95 on a 4GB ram PC?

>>106529234
put table by window. mmm not sure

look picture
>rable by window

at last I truly see

All of this software was based on preexisting engines. 3DMM used BRender
jblow is a retard
Anyway this shit only existed because of the information gap created by limited internet access and limited software access on the internet.
Turns out the marginal value of new software is too low. For most users apple style where you just click a button is about all they can handle. Anything more complex than that and it doesn't matter the user doesn't get any of that marginal value, it just vanishes. Hence they won't pay for new software.

This is exactly the same as the current situation in the app and play stores. Software that you would never buy cause it's for retards. Note that Encarta doesn't require a keyboard, no input from you is neccessary just point and click. Apple got this to just point.

>>106530587
MS Image Composer was great for a while.

Hello fellow 28 year old zoomers
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/utopian-scholastic

>>106545244
joining this thread, keenly interested in this software

>>106547058
every zoo and science museum i went to in the 90s looked like this
very cosy

>>106528878 (OP)
Total Commander

>>106541950
>Pretty sure you have to "log in" to use the software.
Amazing. I bet there are still enough people using it to justify their grift. Enshittification spares nobody.

>>106529251
90s PC software had such great boxart, some real gems.

>>106545613
Pretty much anything should work. Virtualbox can sorta do it. If you're on linux, just use Virtual Machine Manager and let QEMU work its charm.

This, along with Microsoft Encarta fueled my curiosity as a 8 - 12 year old with a Windows ME computer with no internet access.

Although it was most likely just a coincidence, thank you for buying that computer, mom.

I have no idea how should I fuel the same kind of curiosity for my future children.

>>106549443
i was the same way anon. Dial up in serbia made it impossible to view shit online so we depended on these(pirated of course and sold by local pc shop)

I was thinking about this last night. The reason we had these encyclopedias is because no internet, but now? Youtube hass so many high quality videos on anything you want its hard to see why youd need an encyclopedia.

>>106549443
>I have no idea how should I fuel the same kind of curiosity for my future children.

Give them a computer without the internet. Load that bitch up with an encyclopedia archive, tons of ebooks, and pirated Mr. Rogers episodes.

Nah, C was everywhere on micros before most people even knew what a UNIX was if they ever even knew. This is a sort of academic biased rewriting of history. You couldn't even run full c on a micro people were willing to strip out tons of features just to get it running and of course they had no idea about lint.

If people wanted to write provably correct programs they wouldn't use c, just like how some mathematicans use lean or a proof assistant rather than c. Apparently c has been growing in popularity in recent years some set of it's features are worth more than the bugs.

c for the most part lets the programmer decide what's acceptable in their project, at least at the code level is isn't adding a bunch of boilerplate for requirements your project doesn't have. For some (10^100) projects even structured programming adds too much friction for them to exist. You are cutting out a huge space of correct (and shorter) programs on the gamble that you will save time reasoning about control flow on larger programs

I don't believe most people will ever accept cutting out more and more correct programs until what? All writable programs are reducible into known correct ones? Such a language will be impossible to write interesting programs for anyone who isn't also a trained mathematician.

>>106549469
Good memories, anon. I also tried many pirated programs and spent hours in front of the PC without any internet. I started going online around 13 - 16 years old in an internet cafe and only got internet at home at around 18 years old.

>>106549494
Yeah I might do that. Try to not get them to fry their brains by the time they're 15 with tiktok

>>106547058
>>106547135
it looks so hopeful

>>106544512
Update:

I tried a few different versions of the software, and didn't find any new Russian girl, or even any other blonde. For one CD I even extracted the set of images and looked at all of the Europeans, none.

The next approach was to work out where they got the content from. Publishers were both lazy and in a rush to get things on a CD, so they just took the material they already made for books and dumped it on.

That's exactly what they did for their "Children around the World" feature. The kids are taken from another book "Children just like me"
https://annas-archive.org/md5/a569b70af1363fc2a002daedf741ce3e

There you also find the same Olia girl, but there's slightly more material. Most of the kids in the book are brown. Perhaps in an update series of this book you'll find what you were looking for. Olia's mum is pretty hot. That's enough autism spent on this for today.

>>106552268
thanks for putting in so much effort anon. <3 appreciate you. Some things are just gone forever

>>106528878 (OP)
Jane's ATF was essential software, although I don't get bonus points.
>Daemon Tools
Nostalgia
>Napster

>>106552361
>bearshare
>limewire

>>106552268
>https://annas-archive.org/md5/a569b70af1363fc2a002daedf741ce3e
btw thank you

>>106528878 (OP)
anyone remember the game inside encarta?

>>106529380
what's there to wonder?
after the 9/11 psyop the world collectively agreed to give up their freedom and rights for the illusion of safety

and as Benjamin Franklin said
>Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

and here we are

>>106552268
>>106552373
found her

>>106552268
Thanks to your fucking autism i found her. thank you anon

>>106552549
>>106552528
That's awesome, weaponized autism is undefeated. I know the feeling; I also spent a lot of time recently trying to unlock a childhood memory of my own, a cartoon show I used to watch when I was very young. I only made progress using GPT, feeding it fragments that I remembered.

Ulysses 31:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02AoqlBOffw&list=PLLhOnau-tupTgnYvyvF56ez73f5KVsPdV

>>106552388
it was a maze, right?

>>106529380
Hmmm... can't put my finger into it...

>>106529264
Theyre contributing to the rise in mental illness in younger generations cause they wont get off.

>>106552549
>Thanks to your fucking autism i found her.
post her

to be fair most of the noughties shovelware was crap, even the ones made by microsoft. there just weren't cynical online anons to tell you so

>>106529534
>>106552397
>hey, a plane crashed the twin towers
>hmm, let's mess up Encarta colors them
>yeah!

>>106529251
>2001-2002
Kek. We already established it was end of 2007.

>>106528878 (OP)
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections Stowaway!

The leg amputation anim was brutal.