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    Software is the essence of computing. It is the bits and bytes that make using our wonderful hardware possible. Without it, our computers would remain nothing more than heavy paperweights with some blinky lights.
    It is also deceptively difficult to categorize in any meaningful way. There are many archives online with various methods of categorizing vintage software. Since this site is designed to work specifically on legacy computers, I have chosen to categorize software here by the operating system it supports.

// MS-DOS Software
Category Name Version Description Link
Graphics Deluxe Paint II Enhanced 3.0 Raster Paint Program for MS-DOS 704k
Electric Crayon: TMNT 3.10 Electronic Ninja Turtles Coloring Book 215k

// Windows 3.1 Software
Category Name Version Description Link
Internet Netscape Navigator (16bit) 4.08 International : Last Version for Windows 3.x 8.7M
Media QuickTime 2.1.2 Apple QuickTime Video Player 1.8M
Video for Windows 1.1e Microsoft Video Extension for Windows 1.5M
System Win32s 1.30 Win32s extensions to run Win32 apps in Windows 3.x 2.4M
WinG 1.0 WinG high performance graphics library 841k

// Windows 95/98/ME Software
Category Name Version Description Link
Internet Netscape Communicator 4.8 Base Install: Last Version Before Complete ReWrite 17.1M
4.8 Full Install: Last Version Before Complete ReWrite 22.7M
Media WinAMP 2.95 The de-facto standard MP3 player in the 1990s 2.5M
Office Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 Service Release 1 for Microsoft Office 97. 7M
SR-2b Service Release 2b for Microsoft Office 97. 23M
System DirectX 8.0a Last Version to Support Windows 95 24.7M
9.0c Last Version to Support Windows 98 59.2M
Utility Daemon's Tools 3.47 Virtual Drive Emulator. Last version before advertisements
Note: Not needed with VMs, only real hardware
493k
Merlin's PCI Hardware Sniffer 1.4 Allows you to find and identify hardware that's missing or not working. 518k
WinZip 8.1sr1 Compression that defined a generation. 1.8M

// Windows XP Software
Category Name Version Description Link
Theme Royale n/a A sleek theme that was released with Windows XP Media Center Edition 893k

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