ah...I remember some paint program IBM made back in the late 80s...EGA (4 colors; magenta, blue, white, and ...dang...it has been awhile..;) That's where I got started with this. Eventually I got past Ventura publisher (another moldy one, but 'Windows based) to Corel Draw 8. Had a '3d' program called '3dream'...could never make head nor tail of it..;) But that was maybe about the time Bryce came out...;)  So I had to go through Terragen and Strata to get here, which is what probably colors my work flow..;)

I had Wolfenstein 3d, Heretic, Descent, Doom, and something called Blood (have to agree, there was a while where you could build your own levels to everything, so I had 'add on' disks of hundreds of levels), Duke Nukem 3d, etc. Backed them up to a Zip disk (showin' my age), and didn't think about them for awhile, but found the zip drive and disk and tried loading them into
Win 2k. They don't run a'tall (being Dos-based), even with Dos box (which sorta works, if you don't mind extremely slow jerkyness..;)

So that adds to mind - do we eventually get to the point where the early programs don't even run anymore?

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)