wickensonline.co.uk Retrochallenge 2009 Winter Warmup Entry Applications

      Retrochallenge 2009
      Mark Wickens
      13-Jan-2009 21:40
                                     Application Gallery

      BOOKREADER

      Provides online documentation on the Operating System.

      

      

      DECWINDOWS CLOCK

      Nice clear clock.

      

      DECTPU EVE EDITOR

      The standard OpenVMS text editor, here shown running in a decterm. The editor
      can also be started with a DECwindows interface.

      

      DEBUG

      The DECwindows version of DEBUG displays by default if you have a valid DISPLAY
      environment configured. The character-based version is very similar in layout,
      and both support the application keypad shortcuts.

      

      XV

      The image manipulation/conversion program. At the time I first saw it I thought
      it was beautiful to behold - some of the custom widgets, especially in the
      colour editor were fantastic given the standard set of xaw and motif widgets
      available at the time. It just worked, and has continued to work and be highly
      useful to this day.

      

      

      

      VAX MOSAIC 4.2

      Original VAX web browser, updated with support for SSL. It has no javascript
      or css support.

      

      XMAHJONG

      An old favourite in my first job between 1991 and 1993 - many a full compilation
      was accompanied by a little xmahjong. Still highly playable today and it's never
      got any easier.

      

      WOLFENSTEIN 3-D

      The 'odd man out'. When ID Software released the source code for Wolfenstein
      there was frenzied efforts to port it to virtually everything. One of those
      ports was the X-Windows port of which this VAX version is a derivitive. Fully
      playable except for dire sound support.