On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:53:03PM +0100, Carlos Lozano wrote:
Hello :)
I have taken the 20 first entries of the top 100 tucows list, except that some entries has been removed, mainly antivirus and programs what need other different program to work. (URL: http://tucows.uam.es/toppicks.html)
Comments, improves, ... are welcomed :))
Cool stuff !
WinZip - The most popular compression utility for Windows just got better.
VERSION 8.1.
- Install: Yes. (Dlls installed none)
- Run: No, it needs riched20.dll to shown the text in zipped files what includes a message, zipped files without messages works fine.
Hmm, why No here ? AFAIR WinZip works pretty well.
Winamp - This program has so many possibilities and offers such a wide range of interfaces, you'll need no other player.
VERSION 3.0:
- Install: Yes. (Dlls installed none)
- Run: No. (Need native msvcrt.dll then works)
This should definitely be looked into (might be easy, too). We really should be able to run Winamp out of the box.
Fruityloops - Make your own MIDIs, WAVs and MP3s in minutes.
VERSION 3.56:
- Install: Yes. (It will install fruitloops in the directory what you are when run the installer, it is a buggy because you must stop the instalation with ctrl+c when it will ask by "overwrite files", but it works).
- Run: No. (Need hhctrl.ocx native, with it the program runs, but i haven't used it before :/)
"Windows syndrome" - you'd have needed hhctrl.ocx on Windows, too, no !?!? Hmm, or is hhctrl.ocx a standard Windows component ?
Easy CD-DA Extractor - This program rips CDs, converts audio files between different formats, and creates audio CDs from WAV and MP3 files.
VERSION 5.0.
- Install: Yes. (Dlls installed advpack.dll, drmv2clt.dll,msdmo.dll, w95inf16.dll,wmnetmgr.dll,asfsipc.dll,l3codeca.acm,msnetobj.dll, w95inf32.dll,wmstream.dll,blackbox.dll,laprxy.dll,msvcrt.dll,wmadmoe.dll, wmvcore.dll,drmclien.dll,npwmsdrm.dll,WMASF.dll, drmstor.dll,msaud32.acm, sl_anet.acm,wmidx.ocx)
- Run: No, crashes. (sysparams.c:1646 - user.dll.so)
Err... this is the same crash as with...
CD Mate - This is a powerful CD backup utility.
VERSION 2.2.8.1.
- Install: Yes. (License and more info is not visible - riched32) (Dlls installed none)
- Run: No, crashes. (sysparams.c:1646 - user.dll.so) (the audioplayer included with the program works)
...this one ?
Putty - This simple Telnet application could hang with the big boys.
VERSION 0.52.
- Install: No needed install.
- Run: No. (it doesn't show the right part of the window, regression????)
Very strange. PuTTY used to work. And please don't name it "Telnet application". Telnet is a small part of it that should be neglected as much as possible. But AFAIR I recently had problems getting it to run, too.
Andreas Mohr