Re:Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
by weinzierl on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:53AM
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I liked Textpad as well, and - besides other things - used it to write ANSYS files.
When I got Internet access at work, I downloaded the ANSYS syntax file from the Textpad website and to my surprise they were written by my boss at the time. syntax
This made me think that the Internet must be a small world too, and for some time it maybe really was. Good times!
EDIT: I checked it out and for sure... drumroll! The file is still there:
ANSYS APDL Contributed by Randolf Mock and Markus Michel
Re:Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
by xnorswap on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:17AM
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I used TextPad for a long time too, it always seemed to work faster, better and simpler than Notepad++ that was the main rival that people would rave about.
Re:Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
by johnnyballgame on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @09:59AM
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I was a very long time user of TextPad as well. I just had to go look it up and am pleasantly surprised it's still being updated. Though, the copyright on their website still says 2020.
20 years in, I thought, come on, I mean I work in software, I can easily afford this ($200 or something). So I paid, and felt good about doing so. I don't know why I didn't do it earlier really!
But I was absolutely so used to the 20 years of multiple-times-per-day muscle memory of clicking away the nag panel on startup telling you to pay. So I uninstalled the program and reinstalled it without typing in the registration code, even though I'd paid, so I could get back to the "workflow" that I was used to...