by assemblylang on 4/6/22, 2:17 AM with 67 comments
Could be interesting to see what Amiga OS would look like if it was still maintained to this day. There are some systems that are binary compatible with Amiga OS that still see a bit of development, but they are mostly niche projects (still very cool projects though).
by mikewarot on 4/6/22, 5:57 AM
Digikam is not an acceptable substitute, it's got lots of quirks, and tends to abend.
by shakna on 4/6/22, 6:03 AM
Yes, technically it still exists in some form, but not really. The modern version shares little in common with the DOS port - apart from unicode incompatibility, and that's hardly desirable.
Corel have even acknowledged how good the DOS version was by attempting to have a "Classic Mode" with a similar interface. But the macro system is completely incompatible, and all the menus are different. It's a skin-deep facelift, nothing more.
by antifarben on 4/6/22, 5:28 AM
The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good sides after all these years.
I guess if IE would become FOSS this would bring some fresh air to the ecosystem.
by elviejo on 4/6/22, 3:39 AM
Google reader. For RSS with blazing speed.
by musicale on 4/6/22, 5:20 AM
32-bit macOS and iOS (before Apple set fire to all the 32-bit games and other software)
Backward compatibility with older versions of macOS and iOS in general
Desktop software in general (before everything became a crappy web app)
Non-subscription software
Smartphone games without horrible monetization schemes
Web sites without adtech
by version_five on 4/6/22, 2:38 AM
It runs QNX and you could get a terminal emulator for it, through which you had a functional unix like environment with a text editor, compiler, python, etc. It's not updated and all the root certs (I think I'm using that correctly, not my area) are expired, so it doesn't connect with anything that needs https. Otherwise I think it could be an awesome terminal tablet (it needs a better keyboard too)
by nenadpantelic on 4/6/22, 5:25 AM
by inglor_cz on 4/6/22, 5:07 AM
by anthk on 4/6/22, 3:02 AM
- Avanor
https://libregamewiki.org/Avanor
- Abura Tan
http://aburatan.sourceforge.net/
More abandoned games:
- Fanwor. The sprite should pallete-swap/blink when it's hit.
https://github.com/gsantner/mirror__fanwor
Now, software.
ROX filer + rox desktop. Fluxbox may work as an Oroborox replacement, but Rox-Lib is tied to Python2. It works under Slackware 15 because we have Python2 and 3 for sure, but other distros are screwed.
This runs circles over XFCE and even LXDE on speed.
http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/
ROX related repos:
by musicale on 4/6/22, 5:18 AM
HyperCard
Two flawed but amazingly empowering tools that expanded the world of computing.
by super_vic on 4/6/22, 6:05 PM
by LarryMade2 on 4/6/22, 1:26 PM
Alternative would be having some printer server/emulator which interfaces and emulates as popular legacy printer(s) and serves it out appropriately to modern devices.
by wheels75 on 4/8/22, 3:36 AM
by AnonHP on 4/6/22, 4:34 AM
The developer’s site (Chaotic Software) doesn’t exist any longer, but here’s an old page elsewhere [1] with a description of what it could do.
[1]: http://mac.majorgeeks.com/files/details/media_rage.html
by evaneykelen on 4/6/22, 4:52 AM
by mechatrocity on 4/6/22, 4:06 AM
by tgamma on 4/6/22, 6:38 AM
by mindcrime on 4/6/22, 2:39 AM
Scala IDE[2]
by nikivi on 4/6/22, 2:10 PM
Still nothing that comes close to UX of it.
by mattl on 4/6/22, 2:30 AM
by antifarben on 4/6/22, 5:21 AM
by trinovantes on 4/6/22, 3:16 AM
Still works but performance is starting to slow down with almost 10 years of data
by waste_monk on 4/6/22, 4:46 AM
by josephcsible on 4/6/22, 3:11 AM
by fallsoffbikes on 4/6/22, 5:58 AM
by guessbest on 4/6/22, 5:50 AM
by hbarka on 4/6/22, 5:53 AM
by devoutsalsa on 4/6/22, 4:32 AM
by anthk on 4/6/22, 1:40 PM
The repo is at https://hg.dillo.org/dillo. You need Mercurial, FLTK devel libraries and MBedTLS. With a proper user Agent such as Lynx or the PSP one it will work for a big list of sites.
No JS, but meh. HN works, so does Lobste.rs, Simply Translate, 68k.news...
by ycuser2 on 4/6/22, 5:02 AM
by rurban on 4/7/22, 5:15 AM
perl5