Anyone know of any good free programs for an older computer?

[Scottie]

Anyone know of any good free programs for an older computer?

[Forum Troll]

What kind of programs do you mean? Games? Porn dialers? Viruses? Operating systems? There are lots of sites that have freeware; tell us exactly what you need and we can help you find it.

[iooi]

Most local councils run free recycling programs .....

[Scottie]

Games or Programs

JUst going to try to fill it up for her.

[bugster]

Anyone know of any good free programs for an older computer?

Just how old is old. What are the systems specs. No use pointing you in the direction of DOS based stuff if it is a PIII 450 or soemthing.

[Capmaster]

www.zdnet.com and click on "downloads"

[yoda313]

Hello,

Also www.download.com (cnet).

Plenty of shareware games out there too.

Don't forget to try the discount bins at Best Buy and Circuit City. You can get great older games/programs for $10US and under.

Kevin

EDIT - and EBAY

[Scottie]

it's a P. 166 80 MB of ram she wanted a Photo editor but I only have Adope Photoshop 6 and I think it's to big for that computer.

[Faustus]

it's a P. 166 80 MB of ram she wanted a Photo editor but I only have Adope Photoshop 6 and I think it's to big for that computer.

Hrm... game wise I would suggest finding a copy of Ecstatica and running it in dos mode. Great great game.

[housepig]

it's a P. 166 80 MB of ram she wanted a Photo editor but I only have Adope Photoshop 6 and I think it's to big for that computer.

try The Gimp, look for a download for the older version, ver. 1.2 (instead of the current 2.0).

free, similar features to Photoshop, and it should run on older hardware without problems.

[Heywould3]

for a computer that slow.. i would use MAME.. they have a web site.. its got all the old games like pack man.. astroids mistle command etc.. they all rin in a windows environment but they have a command line/dos version too.. all those games are meant to run on 1mhz -30mhz computers.. and all under 1mb memory.. its an emulator.. as far as a photoshop program.. i would go to znet downloads section and grab a freebe from there. they have word processors, editors, games untilites you name it. but i wouldnt spend any money on it lol.. that computer isnt worth 20 bux anymore i bet you can play PONG lol

i think i still have the floppy version of MS flight sim came on two floppies.. and i might even still have wondows v1.1 on one floppie hahah.. good ole floppies.:P

[thecoalman]

for a computer that slow.. i would use MAME.. they have a web site.. its got all the old games like pack man.. astroids mistle command etc..

The computer will choke on anything other than the real old ones such as the ones you mentioned.... been there done that. Excellent suggestion though. Use the DOS version it's much quicker than the Windows version..... www.mame.net

[tekkieman]

Some people forget what those old workhorses were really capable of! Until recently, I ran my server on something similar. A P133 /128M RAM / 5G & 17G HDs - running NT4.0 SERVER , Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server 7, Oracle 8.05, IIS 4, and used it as the file server, and CD burning station.

Granted, it wasn't the speedest machine in the world (or even the house), but it's not really landfill!

[seinman]

Photoshop 6 should run okay on that system. I have it on my P1/150mhz/48mb RAM/6gig HD system, and it starts up a little slow and applying filters is a little slow, but when you're just doing general work there's not much a difference in speed between it and my new Athalon 2800+ system.

[Garibaldi]

try The Gimp, look for a download for the older version, ver. 1.2 (instead of the current 2.0).

free, similar features to Photoshop, and it should run on older hardware without problems.

The GIMP is really a great app! You need to download the GTK runtime environment also.

You could try installing a linux distro just for fun, here are a couple sites to get started:
www.debian.org
www.slackware.com
www.osnews.com
www.linuxquestions.org
www.knoppix.net
www.slax.org