Software 2016
Just a little bit of reflecting on what has been added this year.
Winworld has added quite a few uncommon and unusual titles this last year.
Uncommon stuff like, Microsoft Project 1.00 for DOS, Citrix Multiuser 1.0 MS-OS/2, Thoroughbred/OS 6.6.2-6, funny stuff like Multimedia Cats!, boring stuff like IBM Data Edition, and Boeing stuff like Boeing Calc and Boeing Graph!
Also filling in many more mundane gaps like Microsoft Works 4.5a or Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01. Added contributions like Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 4.0, a number of Adobe Products, piles of the early Borland Pascal/Prolog/Basic Toolboxes, all those nice budget "Expert Software" titles, and many more.
Going from ~3645 to 4289 files is no where nearly as much as I had hoped for, but on the other hand we have purged a large amount of garbage, vastly improving the quality of the library.
And it is not just files either, I have been trying to improve the descriptions and screen shots on each product. I have been working to add hyperlinks between related products, to make for a more involved library.
While browsing the archive descriptions you may also notice an increasing number of "wanted" items. Hopefully that will give some hints as to products or versions who's existence might not be obvious.
Still, there are many gaps to fill, and many products that have likely disappeared in to the sands of time. Every day that goes by there are fewer and fewer. Even freely redistributable stuff is disappearing.
Thankfully collections are growing in size, not just here at Winworld, but at places like Archive.org, Vetusware, BA, and many platform specific web sites.
Here is to hoping for moar cool archives in 2017!
Winworld has added quite a few uncommon and unusual titles this last year.
Uncommon stuff like, Microsoft Project 1.00 for DOS, Citrix Multiuser 1.0 MS-OS/2, Thoroughbred/OS 6.6.2-6, funny stuff like Multimedia Cats!, boring stuff like IBM Data Edition, and Boeing stuff like Boeing Calc and Boeing Graph!
Also filling in many more mundane gaps like Microsoft Works 4.5a or Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01. Added contributions like Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 4.0, a number of Adobe Products, piles of the early Borland Pascal/Prolog/Basic Toolboxes, all those nice budget "Expert Software" titles, and many more.
Going from ~3645 to 4289 files is no where nearly as much as I had hoped for, but on the other hand we have purged a large amount of garbage, vastly improving the quality of the library.
And it is not just files either, I have been trying to improve the descriptions and screen shots on each product. I have been working to add hyperlinks between related products, to make for a more involved library.
While browsing the archive descriptions you may also notice an increasing number of "wanted" items. Hopefully that will give some hints as to products or versions who's existence might not be obvious.
Still, there are many gaps to fill, and many products that have likely disappeared in to the sands of time. Every day that goes by there are fewer and fewer. Even freely redistributable stuff is disappearing.
Thankfully collections are growing in size, not just here at Winworld, but at places like Archive.org, Vetusware, BA, and many platform specific web sites.
Here is to hoping for moar cool archives in 2017!
Comments
I hope that there are more good IBM PC software in 2017, too.