I have installed the DOS version, and plan to try out the Windows version in Windows 3.1 sometime in the future. After Dark was available for most of the popular operating systems of the time, including DOS, Windows, and MacOS. It originated such classics as Flying Toasters, Aquatic Realm, and Warp, which went on to inspire numerous knock-offs, including those in the XScreensaver suite used in Linux. Most anyone who was a frequent computer user in the 90’s will remember this screensaver suite that was all the rage back then. For now, let’s get started with my favorite non-game software for DOS. Perhaps I will do an article on my favorite DOS games sometime in the future. I’m going to leave out games here, because that’s a whole topic in itself. But old versions of Windows represent only a tiny fraction of the software available for DOS, much of which I have tried out and enjoyed in my DOS VMs in VirtualBox, and in this article, I want to explore some of the endless possibilities DOS software offers. I already talked about Windows 2.01 and Windows 3.1 in a previous article (which you can read here). This time I thought I’d take a look at some of the application software I’ve installed on DOS over the years.
I just thought I’d take a break from all the revamping and changes in direction that this blog has been going through and shift my focus back to a long-time favorite topic of mine: old computers and the old software that runs on them.