I occasionally get requests for very specific software, but I never expected a recent request as I found the original program next to useless: the Windows 3.1 macro recorder. This was a very simple program that would record keystrokes and mouse movement/clicks and play them back. Apparently there were two views on the program. One [...]
The classic game of Grand Theft Auto has been updated for modern versions of Windows and released as freeware by Rockstar Games. The original game lacks some of the graphic charm of later versions, but is still the fun game that set the game industry on its ears and upset conservative pundits across the nation. [...]
I discovered a freeware program for Windows 3.1 called Stiletto in the early 1990s. On the surface, it was a bar you could launch programs from. But the author, Bruce Switzer, just kept adding features to it. It seemed like a new version with even more features came out every month. It quickly became the [...]
What’s Running is a handy little program that will give you a lot of information about what is running on your system. (Don’t let the slow web site turn you off. The program is a much faster that its web site.) What’s Running is something like Task Manager, except it tells you a lot more [...]