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Linux distributions + Unity Linux >

Oldschool Linux was to have been usable as a general-purpose light Linux distribution, with a focus on oldschool platform and operating system emulation/virtualization, demos, games, art and music.

Its target era was to be pre-Windows: DOS, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari, etc. Software will be Linux-native where possible, but two-stage software will be examined .. such as emulating DOS to run a DOS program.

  1. Platform Emulation (DOS: DOSBox and DOSEMU, other platforms like Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari)
  2. Console Platform Emulation (Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, Arcade, etc)
  3. Virtualization
  4. Oldschool demos (intros, demos, megademos, democomp-related stuff)
  5. Art (ASCII, ANSI, pixel, etc)
  6. Oldschool music (MODs etc, Commodore SIDs, and more)
  7. Games (Free, not abandonware – either platform-specific, console or arcade games)

    • This is a secondary interest.

It was to be a consumer distribution, and not a producer distribution. To be distributed with media viewers/players as well as actual content. It was to be a branch off of the Unity Linux base. It never made it past the planning stages.

Oldschool-Windows and producer editions were far-future ideas.



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Software > Video editing >

http://modesto.sourceforge.net/piave/

This program makes no sense. It should be considered a library. Don’t install it and try to do anything with it.

2020-11-14 — It is GUI-less! It uses a frontend like Kdenlive.

  • acronym: Piave is a video editor
  • Abandoned: As of 2020-11-14 it hasn’t been updated since 2004-03-07 (0.2.4)

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Software > Shells >

https://web.archive.org/web/20090228194818/http://hotwire-shell.org/

An object-oriented “hypershell“.

As the license was not renewed, the game had to shut down.

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://warhammeronline.com/

An MMORPG which I beta tested but didn’t play. In fact, I still have the shrink-wrapped box.



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Software > Commodore SID music players >

sidplay2.sourceforge.net

A excellent, albeit simple, player.

Works just great.

It does support the HardSID if you grab the drivers for that.

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World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5438
https://web.archive.org/web/20121029114406/http://wow.curseforge.com:80/addons/chatedit/

Allows you to select your chat text for copying.

Shift-click a chat frame to enter ‘edit mode’.

Simple and effective.

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World of Warcraft > AddOns > Ace >

https://web.archive.org/web/20170624173838/http://old.wowace.com:80/WowAceUpdater

A utility for updating Ace addons.

  • 2017-01-28 — This has long been obsoleted by Curse’s updater.

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