Favourite Software

[Ali]

I say winzip, mainly because of its command line add-on, and Ghost of course. Cant live without Ghost, I would be too scared to play with all those settings that I have no idea what they are for.

Oh, does PowerDesk count? I miss it after getting a 9700Pro.

Ali

[dZeus]

WinRAR has every bit of shell integration that winzip has, if I'm not mistaken.

And WinRAR at least doesn't complain when you try to move the window while compressing/decompressing, like WinZIP does

and WinRAR also handles RAR format, as well as all formats that WinZIP does, as well as others (inclusing .tar.gz and .tar.bz2). without the need of external programs.

[rubank]

WinRAR is nice, but so is WinAce

Can´t do without any of them.

rubank

[RhinoZ]

Most of you already mentioned some great favourite software, but way back I loved Desqview. It was a DOS window multitasking program. It wasn't fancy. You couldn't drag and drop and double click, but you could at least format a floopy in a window and still play Wolfenstien in another.
Remember..I said way back.

[rubank]

Well if you´re talking DOS, let me just say Lotus 1-2-3!

I had (still have) version 3.1 with wysiwyg add-on.

It ran 10 years ago, on an IBM PS2, 10 Mhz 286 and 1 mb ram and DOS 3. In colour, and with built-in mousedriver. And it was fast. Yes, fast!
All the things you could do with that program really amazed me. Drawings with bezier curves, e.g.
It was surely a miracle of its time. I wonder if we will ever see such optimized code again. 6 Mb on the HD, IIRC.
Imagine, eh?

rubank

[GNEP]

Lotus 1-2-3? I have still got version 1A somewhere on a 5 1/4 floppy floppy

Used to run it on an 8086 (Amstrad 1512 for all you brits!) - we upgraded it to have all of 640k of ram...

[rubank]

GNEP,
you had it all

and yet you upgraded

[GNEP]

upgraded computer and software: yes

any real change on being frustrated by the limits of spreadsheets: no

[RhinoZ]

Hey Rubank,
Yep I had lotus 123 with the wysiwyg, and I loved it. I hated that my company switched to M$ and was forced to use Excel and Word. I still remember the key buttons for Wordperfect 5.1, and I haven't used that program since school. I also remember Autocad was only on 9 floopies. I just got rid of all my 5 1/4 floopies this past summer to finally clean up the mess that I still have around my desk.

[cjolley]

Oracle DB engine & PL/SQL
chuck

PS I got to sit on my Grandads ~50 Farmall when I was about 2. Does that count?

[TnT]

VirtualDub, jEdit, Picture Publisher

[Belwarrior]

Norton DOS Commander 5.0

Pctools Deluxe 4.3 (can anyone remember this nifty prog? together with NC i could do just about anything)

Desqview (I loved this program and still have it archived somewhere, i ran a BBS on one of its windows while i practically did everything else on another and this on a 486 33MHz 16MB ram)

ARJ (the best archive utility IMHO but it had so many options that some ppl considered it unfriendly)

Lotus 1-2-3 (when spreadsheets were spreadsheets)

WinRAR (it does .ace files as well)

Windows Media Player 6.4 (havent upgraded yet)
and a host of them but these are the ones that came quickly to my mind

[KvHagedorn]

My favorite software is the accounting program written by that IT guy who set up a bank many years ago. It wired money to his personal Swiss bank account to the tune of $10 million, and was never found out (until the moron bragged about it to his lawyer.) I could use that kinda software right now...

[Byock]

I have to say

Ghost
NTFS for DOS
*gasp* VNC, Terminal Services, (etc, etc)
StarCraft (had to be in there)



The Chicken

[GNEP]

If we're going to have games, then I will have to add Elite (the 8086 original version for the PC, then Chris Sawyer's Elite Plus a bit later) as my all time fave game.

gnep