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What's the oldest program on your computer that you still use?

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Via

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Jan 14, 2009
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I just redid my desktop a few weeks ago but on my Presario 1235 laptop I still have (as far as I know)

Alpha centauri/Civ2 (original installs from around 1999)
Warcraft 2 install from around 2000
X Com/Ultima Underworld (installs from when PC gamer did that 10 free games disc)
A Baldur's gate install from around 2000


and old porn
 

andylawcc

Lifer
Mar 9, 2000
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Originally posted by: ballmode
Winamp 2

that's right! i still have Winamp 2.6 on my other laptop before it got bloated with fancy GUI stuff.

but right now I am just using WMP :(
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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wait...I just now downloaded freespace 2 to see what that's all about. so that may be the winner for me.
 

FlashG

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Dec 23, 1999
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Originally posted by: Crono
Including games, it would have to be Total Annihilation or maybe Gateway II: Homeworld (somewhere on my hard drive, haven't played it in a while).

Total Annihilation Units Compilation Pack (TAUCP) V 2.0 FTMFW
 

Rubycon

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Aug 10, 2005
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x64 bit pretty much squelched all the old ones I ran on the desktop.

This thread reminds me of this video which was a demo AVI in the photomorph CD that was handed to me back in 1994. The guys wanted me to run it on my (then) uber Pentium 90 because their 486 DX/2 66's were too slow. :laugh: