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Maybe they removed all the cell towers in that area, preventing phones from working anyways. What do they do then in emergencies, yell really loud? Fire a flare gun?

Those 3d Realms (Apogee) games are great. My favorites are Cyrstal Caves, Secret Agent, and Paganitzu :-) Halloween Harry sort of reminds me of duke nukem, except with a jetpack, better graphics, and all those women that need to be rescued.

Well, that's good to hear. It's patchin' Time!

I know :-) This is going to be a non KernelEx list. Just because it's simpler that way. And besides, there's already another thread / list of "KernelEx Compatible Programs." This is just my attempt to do a final, comprehensive overview of the state of Win9x programs. Which includes some older and newer programs, and when necessary lists the final version of certain programs.

I'm surprised facebook works

Well, that's a hard question. It depends. You can get around pretty good, especially by turning off javascript (most people don't want to do that though). But really, the only way to know is to try it and see how much you like it. Or I should say, how much functionality are you willing to lose? Turn off javacript and all those pop-up windows, ads, and other junk disappear. But then so do some other things :-/ Functionality wise, Opera 10.63 is your best option for plain Windows 9x.

7-zip 9.20 works awesomly, forgot to add that to my list. Thanks :-) Never tried newer beta/alpha versions however. Not sure about the AVG definitions... very highly doubt it though, because AVG 7.5.524 was released early 2008.

Version 3.0 Revised: June 16, 2016 Symbols Used For This List: * = final version for Windows 9x $ = Commercial software Internet Browsers RetroZilla 2.0 - https://github.com/rn10950/RetroZilla/releases/latest *Opera 10.63 - http://www.oldapps.com/opera.php?old_opera=85 *SeaMonkey 1.1.19 - http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/1.1.19 *K-Meleon 1.5.4 - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/download.php *Firefox 2.0.0.20 - http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.php?old_firefox=7 *Netscape 9.0.0.6 - http://www.oldapps.com/netscape.php Off by One Browser - http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=130 The following are merely Shells for Internet Explorer 6, with minor upgrades like Tabbed windows, and History Cleaning, etc. Green Browser - http://www.morequick.com/indexen.htm Cayman Browser - http://www.download3k.com/Internet/Browsers/Download-Cayman-Browser.html Crazy Browser - http://www.crazybrowser.com/ D+ Browser - http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Internet/Browsers/Portable-Dillo.shtml Archivers - Zipping Programs Zip Repair 1.0 - http://www.diskinternals.com/zip-repair/features.shtml Freebyte Zip 2.3.1 - http://www.freebyte.com/fbzip/ 7-zip 9.20 - http://www.oldversion.com/windows/7-zip-9-20 *7-zip 9.22 beta (Last Version for un-modified Win9x systems) NewZip (like Winzip, but Freeware) - http://www.paehl-info.de/newzipse.exe DesktopZip 2008 - http://www.freewarefiles.com/DesktopZip_program_44092.html Wiz 5.03 - http://www.info-zip.org/WiZ.html UnzipThemAll 1.4 - http://www.download3k.com/System-Utilities/Other-Utilities/Download-UnzipThemAll.html Filzip 2.0 - http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/gp3_w95.html Mikey Zip 1.1 (mkyzip11.zip) - http://www.scovetta.com/archives/simtelnet/win95/compress/page-2 Ccy HaHa Zip 3.0.1 - ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/hhzv30.exe Audio - MP3 Players *1by1 Directory Player 1.75 ANSI - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html XMPlay 3.8.2 - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html *Trout Audio Player 1.06 build 71 - new link pending... will upload to my website shortly VU Player 2.49 - http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.php Billy 1.04k - http://downloads.fyxm.net/Portable-Billy-45620.html Neutrius 1.60 - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Players/Neutrius-mp3-player.shtml MP3 Folders - http://www.nonags.com/freeware-mp3-folders-v2-0_2017.html Apollo - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_video/media_players/apollo.cfm Evil Player 1.31 - http://evilplayer.net/download.php Image Viewers $ CompuPic Pro 6.23 - http://www.photodex.com/compupic $ Mihov JPEGar - http://www.mihov.com/sw/en/jp.php $ PixShow 7.8 - http://www.gosunshine.com/pixshow.html Imagine 1.0.9 - http://www.nyam.pe.kr/blog/entry/Imagine NewView 8.0 - http://www.newviewgraphics.com/viewer/viewer.htm NGView 1.0 - http://www.szamado.hu/ngview/index_en.htm ImgViewer/32 - http://www.arcatapet.com/software/imgv32.cfm Pic_View 0.1.0.5 - ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/pic_view.zip JpegView 2.4 - ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/jpegview.zip PicViewer 3.02 - http://www.anixsoft.com/download.html AhaView 1.1 - http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1516 FineViewer 0.67 - ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/finevw67.zip iView 2.4 - http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=928 PicViewer Lite v1.82 - http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=285 *FastStone Image Viewer 5.3 - http://www.filehorse.com/download-faststone-image-viewer/18469/ IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/ *XnView 2.13 - http://www.filehorse.com/download-xnview/15616/ Cornice 0.6.2 - http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/extra/cornice.html FocusViewer 2.1 - http://downloads.fyxm.net/FocusViewer-96788.html I-Fun Viewer 8.0 - http://www.xequte.com/other/index.html#ifun 11view 3.0a - http://www.snapfiles.com/get/11view.html SlickView 1.0 - http://www.nonags.com/freeware-slickview_1400.html SlickView 1.4 - http://www.photo-freeware.net/slickview.php Little Viewer 1.1 - http://www.freewarefiles.com/LittleViewer-V_program_15422.html Ccy Image Viewer 2.2.1 - http://www.freewarefiles.com/Ccy-Image-Viewer_program_3722.html Lily View 0.65 - http://www.biblical-data.org/SOFTWARES.html Image Editors - Paint Programs PhotoFiltre 6.5.3 - http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm PhotoFiltre 7.2.1 - http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htm PaintBox 2.2.8 - http://www.freewarefiles.com/PaintBox_program_23043.html Image Enhance 3.2.4 - http://baxtrom.com/ Image Analyzer 1.36.1 (requires GDIPlus.dll) - http://logicnet.dk/Analyzer/ Paint Star 2.70 - http://www.freewarefiles.com/PaintStar-V_program_19504.html Ultimate Paint 2.88 Lite Edition - http://www.ultimatepaint.com/ LView Pro 1.b - http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/windows/graphics/lviewp1b.zip FastStone Max View 2.2 - http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page35.html CD Burning, Disc Ripping Utilities, Audio Editing DeepBurner 1.9.0.228 - http://www.deepburner.com/ ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/ DeepRipper 1.1 - http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download CDex 1.40 (newer versions seem buggy, or don't work) - http://www.oldapps.com/CDex.php CD Ripper Freeware 1.0 - http://www.wordaddin.com/cdripper/ mp3DirectCut 2.20 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html Cdex 1.70 b2 - Mptrim 2.13 - http://www.mptrim.com/ *Audacity 2.0.0 - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/legacy_windows Multimedia, Video Players, and converters *VLC 0.8.6f - http://www.filehorse.com/download-vlc-32/4257/ $ QuickView Pro 2.60 - http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/index.html *Windows Media Player 9 - http://www.oldapps.com/windows_media_player.php?old_windows_media_player=7 Eusing Free Video Converter 1.8 - http://www.eusing.com/free_video_converter/video_converter.htm KbMedia Player (2.63a, Japanese version only) - http://hwm5.gyao.ne.jp/kobarin/ Anti Virus and Security ClamWin 0.99.1 - http://www.clamwin.com/ Rose Heuristic Based Virus Scanner 4.93 (DOS) Updated April 2016 - http://www.cfg2html.com/rose_swe/ F-Prot 3.16f for DOS - ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/avir/fp-316f.zip F-Prot definition update - ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/avir/fp-def.zip *AVG 7.5.524 - http://www.oldapps.com/avg_antivirus.php?old_avg=11 *CCleaner 2.36.1233 - http://www.oldversion.com/windows/ccleaner-2-36-1233 Free Privacy Eraser 3.5 - http://www.cleanersoft.com/free_privacy_eraser/privacy_eraser.htm ACleaner 4.1 - http://www.cleanersoft.com/cleaner/privacy_registry_cleaner.htm Outpost Firewall 1.0 - http://www.oldapps.com/Outpost_Firewall.php?old_outpost_firewall=1 Sygate Firewall 5.6.2808 - http://www.oldapps.com/old_version_sygate_firewall.php Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0 - http://www.oldversion.com/windows/tiny-personal-firewall/ Free Internet Window Washer 3.6.1 - http://www.eusing.com/Window_Washer/Window_Washer.htm Eusing Cleaner 4.0 - http://www.eusing.com/free_system_cleaner/system_cleaner.htm Bug Hunter 2.2e (DOS) - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk/ Word Processors *AbiWord 2.4.6 - http://www.oldapps.com/abiword.php?old_abiword=20 PolyEdit Lite - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/PolyEdit-Lite.shtml Atlantis Nova - http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/nova.htm Angel Writer 3.2 - http://www.angelicsoftware.com/en/angel-writer.html Crypt Edit - http://cryptedit.chat.ru/ Rough Draft - http://www.salsbury.f2s.com/rd_overview.htm *Open Office 2.4.3 - http://www.oldapps.com/openoffice.php PDF Tools *Foxit Reader 2.3 (memory bug) - http://www.oldapps.com/foxit_reader.php?old_foxit_reader=6559 Foxit Reader 2.2.2129 (stable, recommended version) - http://www.oldversion.com/windows/foxit-pdf-reader-2-2-2129 Icon Extract and Icon Tools Greenfish Icon Editor Pro 3.31 - http://greenfishsoftware.blogspot.fr/2012/07/greenfish-icon-editor-pro.html Get Icon 1.0.6 - http://www.freewarefiles.com/GetIcon_program_21028.html IconsExtract 1.47 - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html Icon Sucker 2.19 - http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1267 Icon Explorer - http://downloadtaxi.com/d/1198015440/ Icon Search 1.90 - http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=348 GIF Animation Unfreez 2.1 - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/ Text Editors metapad 3.6 - http://liquidninja.com/metapad System Tools - Diagnostic - Registry - Compilers Resource Hacker 4.0 - http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ NSSI 0.60.45 - http://www.navsoft.cz/products.htm Belarc Advisor - http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html Free Windows Registry Repair 3.1 - http://www.regsofts.com/free_registry_repair/registry_repair.htm Eusing Free Registry Cleaner 3.6 - http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm Guitar Software Randy Tab 1.1d - http://www.msjohnhurtmuseum.com/randytab.html Bucket 'O Tab - http://www.antisleep.com/bucket/ Tab Master (DOS) - http://www.magenta.co.il/ofirz/tabmaster.htm Guitar Chord Search 2.7 (DOS) - http://www.geocities.ws/gcd/index.htm Micro Guitar Tab 1.5 - http://www.geocities.ws/gcd/index.htm CD Players Power Play 1.50 - ftp://ftp.usg.edu/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/win95/musplay/pop150.zip Cd 1.01 - http://keir.net/cd.html HTML Editors / Web Design FrontPage Express - http://www.stormthecastle.com/mainpages/frontpage_express/frontpage_express_index.htm AOL Press 2.0 - http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=926

Okay, I was *ALMOST* toying with the idea of revamping this entire list, slogging through all 36 pages... including the Mount Everest of stuff on page one. But, genealogy software? Updaters? CAD programs? Time Synchronisation utilities? Jeepers! Does anyone use that stuff? I'm not going to spend my time searching the web looking for the final version of an atomic clock that works on Windows 98!! LOL. After checking, a lot of those links (on page 1) are just obsolete. Also, when I tried to paste all the URL's onto notepad, half the addresss are truncated due to formatting, and therefore wouldn't work. I'd have to manually copy and paste each URL individually... and verify them... there's hundreds of them! Seriously. The only way to do this, would be to start over from scratch. I'm by no means suggesting getting rid of, or replacing this thread, but it's too big to edit at this point. Maybe if it was broken down into smaller chunks. One thread for Disc burning/ripping software. Another for, say, internet utilities: browsers, plugins, etc. Another thread for all sorts of anti-malware/virus tools. Another for Audio players/editors. Personally, I'd prefer to make the Picture Viewer, and MP3 Player, and Archiver/Zipper thread :-) Those are the software I use mostly.

I love that Len song. Takes me back to 2000 or 1999 or whatever year that was :-) "L-A-T-E-R THAT WEEK!" do do do.

Thanks Larry :-)

Guitar Tablature Authoring LAST - FREE - Randy Tab 1.1d - http://www.msjohnhurtmuseum.com/randytab.html Been using this program for years to transcribe my songs and quickly jot down riffs. Comes with a free tab of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Some free Windows 95 style image viewers, Picture Viewer 0.1.0.5 by JM Falcao ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/pic_view.zip IMG 0.9 beta by Minoru Sugito http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/grafview/img09.zip ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Word Processor, rich text LAST - FREE - Rough Draft 3.0 - http://www.salsbury.f2s.com/rd.htm

I found that turning off javascript allows me to save images when right clicking on them is disabled. If that don't work, I hit the "prt scr" print screen key and paste the screen into Irfan view then crop the image. To shutdown blind on WinME it takes three keystrokes: Windows Key, letter "u", then Enter. Or if the computer is frozen, I use my big toe to flip the switch on that white plug-in strip on the floor.

^that's pretty detailed :-)

Whatever "floats your boat"... I'm just curious. Humor me :-) Best sound/compression ratio.... Best file size/sound ratio.... Least amount of RAM required/best sound ratio... Which lossy format would you use for listening to songs on your computer? Would you use those same files for burning to CD? Keeping a collection of WAV or APE files on your hard drive consumes a lot of space, not to mention it takes a large amount of RAM to play them. On my computer it's not feasible to play APE files like I would MP3 for instance. I realize there are many ways and reasons to store files and whatnot, which is why I'm excluding lossless formats from this "highly scientific" poll of mine :-) For me, I like WMA because I think it sounds better at 192 bitrate than either MP3 or OGG. I also like WMA because I can burn, rip, and listen using only Windows Media Player. But usually I just burn and rip with it. I listen with Trout. Some songs have to be saved as APE, because no matter the bitrate I notice a degradation. I know this is subjective, everyone has different ears, but I think WMA has the most "ooomph" and presence, with a full bass sound, and the least amount of high end distortion. Ogg files I can discern a little more tinny noise. MP3's, to me, have always sounded weak in the bass department, and they have a hollow sounding, flat mid range. I think at 192 bitrate it goes WMA, followed by OGG, then a distant 3rd is mp3.

I like the sound of WMA myself :-) This is what happens when javascript is turned off... There was supposed to be three options, MP3, OGG, WMA.

Hello :-)

interesting thread... thanks for the googlehackers pdf and stuff. Learn new stuff everyday.

Well... the Dinosaurs I guess. We've been pretty lucky so far :-)

http://www.sector-seven.net/software/flicflac FlicFlac 1.02 Tiny Portable Audio Converter for WAV MP3 FLAC OGG and APE Version 1.02 - August 16, 2013 -Windows ME, KernelEx 4.5.2 (XP SP2 mode) -startup gives error: "The keyboard or mouse hook cannot be activated; some parts of the script will not function." Despite that error, program seems to function normal. Works better when dragging and dropping files than browsing for them. After testing, the files I produced seemed to work fine. Sometimes converting to flac gave an error message, however, the finished flac files seemed to work fine anyway. -source code is available at authors website

Jupiter as a "cosmic vacuum cleaner" From the wikipedia article above*

Siberia, 1908. Didn't kill anyone, but it could have. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Bear in mind, about 70% of the Earth's surface is water. A tidal wave might be the only indication there ever was an impact, so there would be no crater left behind.This one slammd into Jupiter in 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9 Here's one from china in 1490. Killed more than 10,000 people. 1490 Ch'ing-yang event

Beyond the orbit of Pluto, the Kuiper belt (named after the discoverer) contains hundreds of thousands of comet like bodies composed of ice and carbonaceous chondrites. The Kuiper belt dwarfs the asteroid belt in size. These are like large dirty snowballs. Whenever something perturbs them during their orbit around the sun, it can send them careening toward the inner solar system. Rogue comets from outside our solar system can perturb the orbits of comets in the Kuiper belt, also explosions from Super Novas can dislodge the comets, sending them inside the solar system. Not that I disbelieve in God, but Earth has been hit by many comets and asteroids in its history. The traces of these impacts are washed away from geologic processes like erosion, sediment, water, vegetation. On places like the moon, however, where there are no geologic processes, the impact craters remain unchanged for eons.

They should have melted those gold coins down... then they'd have plausible deniability. "Oh look, I just happened to have found this gigantic gold nugget in my backyard. It's like all shiny and new. Hey, weird, huh?"

Archiver ONGD - FREE - Freebyte Zip 2.3.1 - http://www.freebyte.com/fbzip/