Linked by Kroc Camen on Mon 22nd Jun 2009 12:16 UTC
Software moves on at a break-neck pace these days--version numbers clock up ever quicker as vendors try to market their apps as the latest and greatest. Software generally ages badly, falling into a state of looking grossly out of date, lacking new functionality that we've come to depend upon as well as compatibility problems. Dear OSNews readers, what old software (5+ years) do you still use, why, and what problems do you come across in sticking with it? Read More for my own contribution to the list
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2005-07-06
As with a few other people here, I'm still using Photoshop 7 (and the contemporary version of Illustrator - AI 10). There's a copy of MS Works 2.0 (16-bit) that I still have kicking around, just about the only MS word processor that I can tolerate for actual *writing* - although it's certainly showing its age (no "squiggly-underline" spell checking, no auto-pagination, etc). Some ancient version of QuickBooks, an old 6.x version of Nero Express (can't stand the UI of newer versions), and an old HTML/code editor called Arachnophilia (there's an updated Java version, but I prefer the old Win32 version).
With games, I actually tend to *prefer* older ones. Jedi Outcast, Quake 1 (nothing beats it for some mindless deathmatch, IMO), Homeworld, Virtual Pool 3, Max Payne, etc. Oh, and a game that me and a few friends came up with - "car surfing" in GTA3 (jump on top of a car, shoot it, then try to stay on as long as possible).