Any Abandonware HW or SW that you go on using

catallus · 26-01-2014 01:24AM

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSSRyBM7N-txNYzvUr-qkn3ooZG31-8TVGbS79uoOhCTqmkfcnyCA

I still play this

Arthur Beesley · 26-01-2014 01:29AM

Monkey Island

Pinch Flat · 26-01-2014 01:31AM

Still enjoy listening to the odd c-60

mbur · 26-01-2014 01:40AM

I occasionally fire up dosbox and steem to run a few old games and simulators. Does that count? I used to dabble with SNES emulators as well. Best SNES game ever was called uncharted waters. It had very good mini game where you battled pirates on the high seas. Great fun, all strategy and no thumb flipping like so many console games.

Hermy · 26-01-2014 01:46AM

I have an XKS 9000.
Does that count?

madmaxi · 26-01-2014 02:20AM

I still play scorched earth, runs on XP.

gctest50 · 26-01-2014 02:57AM

cml387 wrote: »

A lot of the equipment I use at work is Windows NT based. It only gets awkward when you realise it doesn't support USB, so we use 3.5 inch floppies for some data transfer.

There is a debug pc running windows 3.1 but it's not used that often.

http://wdl2.winworldpc.com/Abandonware%20Service%20Packs/

http://wdl2.winworldpc.com

Ruu · 26-01-2014 03:20AM

Sim Ant, Doom, have a shareware version of Blood!

GerardKeating · 26-01-2014 03:29AM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

I still have a laptop with XP and Vista on.

A lot of ATM's still run XP.

FanadMan · 26-01-2014 05:50AM

Still play some of the old games on the MegaDrive.....classic fun. And can't stop playing arcade games on MAME. Jeez.....I am an old fart

Wibbs · 26-01-2014 11:51AM

The odd time I'll type up stuff on an Apple emate(have a serial to USB converter thingy). I regularly use a Powerbook G3(pismo) from 2000 to browse the web(running Macos 10.4). That said that's from the time when apple were ahead of the curve and innovating, rather than being a fashion company so it has wireless and USB and other stuff that since became mainstream. Although it came with something tiny like 8/16mbs of ram it was set up so it can read up to a gig of ram, so it's still very usable. With both batteries on board I can get nigh on a day off power from it.

Nabber · 26-01-2014 01:11PM

Still play Counter strike.

I use a washing line to dry my clothes too.

dotsman · 26-01-2014 02:37PM

GerardKeating wrote: »

A lot of ATM's still run XP.

Which is leading to a major headache for them as the support is running out.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/atms-face-shutdown-as-banks-scramble-to-update-it-29933684.html

As for myself, I generally don't play a lot of modern games. Much prefer classics from my youth. For that, GOG is an incredible source. Given that they always have heavily discounted sales, I typically pick up games for 2-3 euro. You're not really paying for the games themselves (as most are abandonware), more that fact that GOG have written installers for them to make these games run smoothly on Windows 7/8 etc . In the last year or 2 I've played games from GOG like:

Syndicate Wars
Lords of the Realm (1 & 2)
Colonization
Duke Nukem 3D
Caeser 3
Medal of Honor (original)
Conquest of the new World
Alpha Centauri

...as well as a number of rewrites of classic games (that support modern resolutions + other configurable improvements) that are released as open source

Transport Tycoon
Theme Hospital

kowloon · 26-01-2014 03:03PM

Have played UFO, Jagged Alliance, the original Fallout series and Desert Strike on a netbook. Syndicate won't run right for me. I have a calculator with a leather cover and wood veneer case, it weighs a ton and comes in somewhere between a brick and a breeze block in size. It still works.

Capt'n Midnight · 26-01-2014 09:31PM

GerardKeating wrote: »

A lot of ATM's still run XP.

Embedded XP is supported for at least another two years.

There is an American saying "If it works it's obsolete".

This is why they they are passengers on 1960's capsule sitting on a 1950's rocket when they visit the ISS.

Yes the Americans are developing their own rockets again.
The Antares for example. Though the first stage is more or less old Russian technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares_%28rocket%29#Design and the Cygnus is built in Italy. And they are reinventing the wheel in the sense that they have abandoned the Apollo spacecraft and several long lived families of launchers. Might still have Skylab today if they hadn't been so busy trying to improve stuff that worked well enough.

When you get into a Boeing 737 remember that it still shares commonality in fuselage sections and major design with the original 707 from 1957

Bicycles haven't changed all that much either

GoodBridge · 26-01-2014 09:34PM

winamp

BizzyC · 27-01-2014 01:46PM

abandonia is a good website for these games.

fun to load one up every now and then and dive into nostalgia.

Settlers 3 is a favourite of mine.

Diemos · 27-01-2014 01:57PM

Winamp V2.xxx
Editplus V2.xxx

Red Alert 2
Dungeon Keeper

Akrasia · 27-01-2014 02:23PM

I still play Chess 1 even though Chess 2 was released there not too long ago.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/chess-2-impressions-an-enchanting-new-twist-on-an-ancient-game/

gugleguy · 27-01-2014 05:58PM

The Th!ng wrote: »

Microsoft's Office '97 can be used on Windows 7 and will run like greased lightning on modern hardware.

Mmmmmm. I have the original legit Office 97 CD. :mmmmmmm. Also I have a win so machine which is far too ok. Must replace soon. Then might try office 97 CD out on win 7 new pc. F**k win 8/8.1 2whatever

uch · 27-01-2014 06:05PM

I use Mame to play 1980's video games

spoofilyj · 27-01-2014 06:18PM

Still Play Red Alert 2 every couple of months, its still up there as one of my all time favorite games.

Professor Tim's Incredible Machines mainly because it was one of the games included in my first PC in 1996 a Packard Bell with speakers on either side of them monitor oh what a machine!

GOG is a great site for reminiscing on old games.

We had a SNES night last week, playing Street fighter and Mario cart etc great craic.

gugleguy · 27-01-2014 06:59PM

Thought this thread was going to be choked off at first but yeah, I still play Geoff Crammond's GP4. Time for gugleguy to create a new thread in AH to see how it goes.

anncoates · 27-01-2014 07:16PM

Winamp with a cheesy dated skin.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-01-2014 10:37PM

dotsman wrote: »

Which is leading to a major headache for them as the support is running out.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/atms-face-shutdown-as-banks-scramble-to-update-it-29933684.html

Has the Independent any stories without major factual errors ??

Extended support for Windows XP Embedded ends on January 12, 2016

and they've extended a couple of times already

dotsman · 28-01-2014 12:27AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Has the Independent any stories without major factual errors ??

Extended support for Windows XP Embedded ends on January 12, 2016

and they've extended a couple of times already

To be fair, it's not just the indo. Most international media outlets are reporting on it

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-16/atms-face-deadline-to-upgrade-from-windows-xp
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/179_18/sunsetting-of-windows-xp-raises-atm-security-concerns-1065198-1.html
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/20/5326772/windows-xp-powers-95-percent-of-atms-worldwide

Slightly off topic - apologies!

Any Abandonware HW or SW that you go on using

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