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What very old/unmaintained software do you still use today, and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Emerald_Earth@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I still use Font Renamer to manage my font collection. It works great but hasn't received an update since 2008. Even the website looks straight out of the Windows XP era.

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[–] dotmatrix@lemmy.ftp.rip 1 points 1 year ago

I was gonna say something like ping, but there's still a surprising amount of development going on for such a simple tool (40th anniversary, yay!): https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/master/ping/ping.c

So... retro games it is. Currently playing through Broken Sword (1996).