Okay, so what's the oldest software that you still run on a regular basis...

Star Raiders on the Atari 400.

Nina informs be there is an APP to play Star raiders on her phone. Maybe I'll need to upgrade the phone to what she has. Who thought they'd run a smart phone on a 6502!
 
the oldest software that i still run on a regular basis i'd categorize more as "wetware", and it is called "brain".
 
I never trust my brain to remember how to do anything.

That's why I do everything in FORTRAN. That way all I have to do is read the code to remember how to do things that I forgot that I ever did in the first place.
 
Interesting that you never warmed to WordStar 7. It's my favorite word processor by leaps and bounds. The really nice thing about 7.0d is that ^K[ copies into the windows clipboard (Win98SE and earlier) and ^K] copies out of clipboard. I might have them reversed -- I'm on my Win7 laptop. WS 7.0d is on my 1996 Compaq 486/100 laptop downstairs on my desk that still runs just fine and still boots an original copy of Win95.
 
I have Wordstar 7, paid for the upgrade. They started using up columns for "stuff" that I did not need. I like the < at the end of the line showing a carriage return - line feed pair. For writng code, and looking at generated text files that helped me out a lot for some custom applications. I use it for writing code. Wordstar 4 is still on some of my machines. I wrote an assembly language routine to call it into memory, process text files, and read the files back in on exit.
 
Haven't heard the word WORDSTAR for a long time....remember the original manual where they had a picture of 2 british bobbies dragging away someone who accidentally deleted something ?

Actually, I miss Qedit for editing codes.

The oldest software still installed on my note book is .....

CMBB. Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin.
This is a turn based wargame, but with smashing graphics (for that time) and the accuracy is bar-none, for example, depending on the year, a particular AP round could have some defect which was factored in and could disable or bounce off a enemy tank depending on which year of manufacture. All the soldiers cursed in their native language, and to be realistic, there isn't any background music :)

I used to play this via email....took a week to play a 30 minutes (30 turns) game...

www.battlefront.com <-- you can still download the demo of the CMBB.
 
I have Wolfenstein 3D somewhere. I hacked the image file and replaced all og the images with my cats. Figured out the color map of the frames and jail cells, and used it for a mask of digitized images of the cats. Backed out the Video Look-up-Table used in the game, and mapped the 24-bit color digitized images of the cats into that used by the game, generated a three-dimensional histogram to maximize the color matching. Did all of this in FORTRAN about 20 years ago.
 
IBM's Lotus Smart Suite (which includes 123) and Photoshop Elements 1.0. Just upgraded to ver 8.0 for free with the purchase of a Canon 9000 printer.
 
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