Company | Software / Version | License | 'Friendliness' | Stability | Problem(s) | Solution to the problem(s) | Installable under Win32s | Intended for |
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A+M Neuber | Typograf 3.0 | SHR | :) | Good | -- | -- | yes | Win 9x/NT |
Adobe | Photoshop until 3.x | COM | :) | Good | Installer may give trouble by crashing in module <unknown> (v3.0) | Try installing with a minimum Windows config | Yes | Any Win32 (mp) |
Adobe | Photoshop 4 | COM | [:|] | Said to be less fast and stable | Resource hog | -- | Yes | Any Win32 (mp) |
Ahead Software GmbH | Nero Burning ROM (until 4.0.3.0, newer versions: support dropped) | COM/ DEMO | :) | Good | Does only support SCSI CD-R drives, slight display problems, with SCSI burning problems seem to be anything but rare | 1st problem: Not found yet :-( | Yes | Any Win32 |
Ajuba Solutions | Tcl/Tk 8.0p2 | FREE | :) | Good | Minor incompatibilities | -- | Yes | Any Win32 (mp) |
Aladdin | Ghostscript 6.01, GSview 3.6 FREEWARE | COM/ FREE | :| | Good | Difficult install, some utility programs don't run on Win32s | RTFM | Yes | Any Win32 |
Alchemy Mindworks Inc. | GIF Construction Set 95 1.0L | SHR | :) | Good | May complain about missing DLLs | It's not impossible to get those, though ;) | Yes | Windows 95 |
Barefoot Inc. | Tiles and Tribulations 1.5 | SHR | :) | Good | -- | -- | yes | Windows 95 |
Christian Ghisler | Windows Commander 4.01 32bit (recently renamed to Total Commander) | SHR | :| | Average | crashes sometimes, directories won't be shown at startup | use 16bit version | yes | Win 95/NT |
Contact Plus | More Space '95 2.5 | SHR | :) | Good | -- | -- | yes | Windows 95 |
Corel Corp. | CorelDEPTH 6.0 | COM | :| | Good | Missing key in the registry database | Execute this registry editor with the parameter /V and add the key (HKCR is root directory, all others are the same as HKCR) | No, click here for dir list and ini file excerpts | Win 95 |
Corel Corp. | CorelDREAM 3D 6.0 | COM | :| | Good | Same as above | Same as above | No, click here for dir list and ini file excerpts | Win 95 |
Daniel Hyams | Curve Expert 1.3 | SHR | :| | Good | Replaces CTL3D32.DLL. Help doesn't work, may cause a crash if executed anyway. | Make a backup copy of CTL3D32.DLL before installing, and write it back afterwards. | Yes | Any Win32 |
Dommelsch | Roll'm up | FREE | :| | Good | crashes when leaving program or trying to load highscore list (i.e. 'Game over' really means 'game over'..) | None | Yes | Win95 |
FMJ Software | Awave 3.0 | SHR | :) | Good | may crash when used with incompatible sound card | none | Yes | Any Win32 |
Forté | Free Agent 1.11/32 | FREE | :) | Good | -- | -- | Yes | Win95/NT |
Funduc Software Inc. | Search and Replace for Win95/NT | SHR | [:)] | Good | ? | -- | Yes | Win 95/NT |
Gekko Software | Kalua Cocktails 98 | DEMO | :) | Good | Occasionally shows error messages. Sound effects don't work (depending on sound card?). | ignore error messages | Yes | Windows 9x |
Gilles Vollant | WinImage 5.0 | SHR | :| | ? | Caused a few system lockups while reading floppies here - no clue why | ? | Yes | Any Win32 |
Guardian Software Productions Patrick Cornelißen | SoundGuard 2.0 | SHR | :| | Good | starts up with error messages (ignore them) and cannot be closed normally | use a taskmanager or other program that can kill the problem(s) processes to close the application | Not needed | Any Win32 |
H&H Enterprises | KeyNote Music Drills 1.60 | SHR | :) | Good | resource hog | -- | not needed | Win95/NT 3.51 |
Hamrick Software | VuePrint Pro/32 7.6e | SHR | :) | Good | None as yet | -- | Yes | Any Win32 |
HeadLight Software | GetRight 1.3b | SHR | :) | Good | Does not always work with Trumpet Winsock, some fiddling with proxy servers required (only if you use one, of course) | Make sure Win32s's wsock32.dll is used | Yes | Any Win32 |
Helios Software Solutions | TextPad32 1.30 | SHR | :) | Good | None | -- | Yes | NT 3.x |
iMatix Corp. | Xitami 2.4d7 Win32 console mode version | FREE | :) | Good | Console mode, so there's no output | none | Yes | Any Win32 (mp) |
Ipswitch | WS_FTP Pro 6.0 | COM | :( | Good | Profile manager hangs | ? | Yes | Win95/NT |
Ipswitch | WS_PING32 | ? | [?] | ? | Some display problems | none | ? | ? |
Ipswitch | WS_PingProPack 2.10 | COM | :) | Good | none | -- | Yes | Win95/NT |
Ipswitch | WS_WATCH | FREE | :) | Good | Some display problems, wants to use MS icmp.dll | none; insert line 'ms_icmp.dll=0' into %windir%ws_watch.ini to force using rs_icmp instead | Yes | Any Win32 |
Irfan Skiljan | IrfanView32 2.05 | FREE for private use | :) | Average | -- | -- | yes | Win 95/NT |
JASC Inc. | Paint Shop Pro 3.12 | SHR | :) | Good; very stable | Will not show the properties of PNG images in the Open File dialog if they have been created by PSP itself | none (the bug does not only occur under Win32s) | Yes | Any Win32 |
Jeff Parker | Memory Status 1.1 | FREE | :) | Good | Small resource leak | -- | Yes | Any Win32 |
Jerome Tremblay | Window HTML 1.1 | FREE | :) | Good | produces long file name associations in the HTML files | edit the HTML code.. | Yes | Windows 9x |
Lars Hederer | CabPack 1.3 | FREE | :) | Good | None | -- | Yes | Windows 9x |
Leonardo Loureiro | LView Pro 1.D2 32-bit | SHR | :) | Good | None | -- | Yes | Any Win32 |
Luca Bertoncello | EasyFTP 1.0 | SHR | :) | Good | -- | -- | yes, but installer may force other active applications to crash (e.g. Calmira) | Win 95/NT |
Lucien Cinc | WinOne 7.3 | COM/Demo | :) | Good | -- | -- | yes | any Win32 |
Michael Schöbel | Michael's Disk Benchmark 2.0 | SHR | :) | Good | -- | -- | yes | Win 9x/NT |
? | mIRC 5.6 | ? | [?] | ? | Config dialog uses lots of resources | Configure mIRC when enough resouces are free | Yes | ? |
Micrografx | Picture Publisher 6.0 | COM | :( | Mediocre | Registry (does not save settings), startup screen won't go away, new window opened at startup | For startup screen: Find the dialog box under the startup screen, move it away and close it. Otherwise: None, use for experiments only. | No | Win 95 |
Microsoft | 3D Pinball Space Cadet (included with NT 4.0) | COM | :) | ? | ? | ? | ? | Win NT4 |
Microsoft | FontView (from Win95's Quick Viewer) | COM | :) | Good | none | -- | No | Win95 |
Microsoft | Help compiler v4.0.213 | COM | [?] | it works | ? | -- | ? | Win 95/NT (?) |
Microsoft | MS-Info32 (from Office 95) | COM | [?] | ? | ? | -- | Probably not | Win 95/NT |
Microsoft | OLE2 viewer (Win95 SDK, Visual C 2.0) | COM | [?] | it works | ? | -- | ? | Win 95/NT (?) |
Microsoft | Windows 95 calculator | COM | :) | Good | none | -- | Not needed | Win95 |
Microsoft | Various W95 screen savers (the 'standard' ones, such as flywin, marquee, mystify etc.; 32-bit flywin runs _much_ more smoothly), except for bezier.scr | COM | :| | Good | Settings aren't saved | Keep Paul Chitescu's Enhanced Registry Editor open. | Install not needed | Win 95 |
Microsoft | Windows 95's Wordpad | COM | :( | Not all that good | Ruler doesn't work, crashes on opening / saving files (IIRC) | You need the Win32s compatible msvcrt20.dll and the MFC 3.0 DLLs | Install not needed | Win 95 |
Mirabilis | ICQ 1.111beta | FREE | :| | Good | Sometimes problems when communicating with newer versions, installs Win32s incompatible msvcrt40.dll, doesn't seem to work with IE 3.02's dialer, crashes on startup if Netscape is already running (resource shortage?), no longer works due to protocol changes? | DLL problem: Replace with the correct version; otherwise: none | Yes | Any Win32 |
<Development group> | POV-Ray 3.02 (3.1 upwards: support dropped) | FREE | :| | Good | System hangs when POV-Ray restarts itself | If settings need a restart, change them manually in the pvengine.ini file. | Yes | Any Win32 (mp) |
Peter Theill | FontLister 1.5 | FREE | :) | Good | -- | -- | not needed | Windows 95 |
Photodex | CompuPic 4.00 build 963 | SHR | :( | unstable | crashes often, uses up nearly all the resources | none | Yes | Win95/NT |
Pierre-e Gougelet | XNView 1.25 ('Win 3.x' version) and newer | FREE | :| | Good | V1.07 didn't like Instant File Access; the versions 1.11 and 1.12 had a resource leak; the file browser in new versions is pretty resource hungry | Use standard dialog instead (V1.07); resource leak fixed in 1.14 | Not needed | Any Win32 (mp) |
Pierre-e Gougelet | NConvert (included w/ XNView 1.15 for Win9x/NT) | FREE | :) | Good | Console mode, so one doesn't see what happens | none | Not needed | Any Win32 (mp?) |
RarSoft | WinRAR 2.02 | SHR | [?] | ? | ? | -- | ? | Win95/NT |
Raihan Kibria | frhed - free hex editor 1.0.156 | FREE | :) | Good | none | -- | Not needed | Any Win32 |
Raphael Molle | WinVi 2.90 (32bit version) and newer | FREE | :) | Good | About dialog doesn't work | none / use 16 bit version :) | Not needed | Any Win32 |
Siegfried Weckmann | SWInfo 3.04 | FREE | :| | Good | only partially usable because of incorrect output | none | Yes | Win95 |
Smartdraw | Smartdraw 3.23 | COM | :) | Good | Installer says the program doesn't work with Win 3.1x (this is wrong) | -- | Yes | Win95/NT |
Todd C. Wilson | MapThis! 1.3 | FREE | :) | Good | none | -- | Yes | Any Win32 |
UR Soft | W32Dasm 6.4 and later | COM/ DEMO | :| | Rather mediocre | Crashes now and then, but Win32s can intercept the crashes; resource eater | none | Not needed | Any Win32 |
Uwe Schmidt | DatSave 1.2 | SHR | :) | Good | 'Open' dialog doesn't show any files | Enter file name manually | Yes | Any Win32 |
Vincenzo Iuorno | Lookdisk 2.5 | FREE | :) | Good | None | -- | Yes | Any Win32 |
Vulcan Technology | Vulcan Notes 2.13 | SHR | :) | Good | None so far | -- | Yes | Win95/NT |
Waterloo Maple | Maple V Rel. 5 Single-user | COM | :| | Good | Collides with All3D; uses 36% of GDI resources | Do not add any 3D effects to wmaple.exe in Control Panel >> All3D; Maple uses them by itself, which then leads to a system hang | Yes | Win95/NT4+, Win32s (mp) |
Waterloo Maple | Maple V Rel. 4 | COM | [:)] | Not extensively tested | None, seems to use less resources (~17%) | -- | Yes | Any Win32 (mp) |
XATech | JPEG Optimizer 1.31 | SHR | :| | Good | it's impossible to close the program because of a persisting error message | use the task manager to exit the program | No | Win95 |
XATech | JPEG Optimizer 3.15 | SHR | :( | Good | it's impossible to close the program because of a persisting error message; help doesn't work (may even crash the system); all features available in unregistered version, but the new ones (vs. 1.31) disappear when the registering code is entered!? | use the task manager to exit the program | No | Win95 |
Yuri Software | HEdit32 v1.2 | SHR | :) | Good | None | -- | Yes | Any Win32 (Win NT 3.1) |
Company | Software / Version | License | Stability | Problem(s) | Solution to the problem(s) | Installable under NT 3.51 | Intended for |
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Adobe | Acrobar Reader 3.01 (32-bit) | FREE | Good | none noted; later versions don't work | -- | Yes | Win 95/NT |
CompCore | SoftPEG 2.21 | COM (*) | Good | Mplayer.exe from VfW 1.1 is needed; no video acceleration | -- | Yes | Win 3.1x/95 |
Eberhard Backeshoff, DK8JV | JVComm32 1.21 | SHR | Mediocre | The self-extracting distribution ZIP archive doesn't want to run; app crashes as soon another mode than 'None' is selected (probably window creation fails), which pretty much makes it useless | Use WinZip to extract the files and run setup.exe; none | (No) | Win95/NT4+ |
GIMPS | Prime95 v21 | FREE | Good | None, great stability test (and you can make math history by finding a Mersenne prime :) | -- | Yes | Win95/NT |
JASC Inc. | Paint Shop Pro 3.12 | SHR | Good; very stable | Will not show the properties of PNG images in the Open File dialog if they have been created by PSP itself | none (the bug does not only occur under NT 3.51) | Yes | Any Win32 |
Jeff Parker | Memory Status 1.1 | FREE | Good | None | -- | Yes | Any Win32 |
Juoni Vuorio | CPU Stability Test 6.0 | FREE | Good | None | -- | Yes | Win95/NT |
Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar | UPX 1.20w | FREE | Good | None | -- | Yes | Win95/NT |
Microsoft | TZEdit (Win95 Kerneltoys) | FREE | Good | none | -- | Yes | Win 95 |
Mozilla.org | Mozilla 1.3.1 | FREE | Good | apparently no content in menus, font size select not working, display issues with bitmaps in themes, keyboard shortcuts not working | select legible font sizes via userChrome.css / userContent.css; others: none | Not needed | Win 95/NT4+ (mp) |
Netscape Communications Corp. | Communicator 4.08 (32-Bit), 4.51, 4.7, 4.73 | FREE | Good | No probs with these, but 4.78 did *not* work at first (some NT 4.0+ DLLs required) | Installing the OLE automation update oadist2z.exe and other updates might not be a bad idea in case you experience any trouble with older versions | Yes | Win95/NT (mp) |
Nico Mak Computing Inc. | WinZip 7.0 SR-1 | SHR | Good | Will not run EXE files from within archives, since they're not associated with anything in NT 3.51; 8.0+ versions don't work | Use Regedt32 to set up the .EXE file type like in Win9x/NT4+ | ? (I'm lazy and copied the whole directory over the network ;) | Win95/NT |
Opera Software | Opera 3.62 32-bit | SHR | OK | A bit too crashy for my taste, but the 16-bit version isn't any better; file dialogs don't work (CommDlg extended error 0x2) | None | Yes | Win95/NT |
Opera Software | Opera 4.01 | SHR | Good | Slight display problems, same dialog problem as with 3.62; both 5.12 and 6.01 gave considerable trouble (common control issues, I guess) and are not to be recommended | None | Yes | Win95/NT |
Pierre-e Gougelet | XNView 1.25 ('Win 3.x' version) | FREE | Good | Language files aren't loaded?! | none so far | Not needed | Any Win32 (mp) |
Raphael Molle | WinVi 2.90 32-bit | FREE | Good | None | -- | Yes | Any Win32 |
Thong Nguyen | PowerMenu 1.50 | FREE | Good | Growing number of 'Priority' menus; 'Minimize to tray' minimizes to nowhere since there is no system tray (tip: use a good Win 3.1x task manager to unhide the window) | None | Yes | Win95/NT4+ |
Waterloo Maple | Maple V Rel. 5 Single User | COM | Good | Requires use of Win32s files with Win32 msvcrt40.dll | Copy whole Maple directory from a 3.1x computer, rename msvcrt40.dll to .dlx or similar | No | Win95/NT4+, Win32s (mp) |
Webwasher.com AG | WebWasher 3.2 beta 3 | FREE | Good | Configuration dialog has some display issues: menus with empty captions and empty (but working) items, some displayed items like the local proxy port entry field are beyond the right border | No fix, app works fine within the given limitations (Winsock 1.1, full functionality only available with Winsock 2.0) | Yes | Win95/NT4+ |
XingMPEG 1.4 | COM (*) | Good | Mplayer.exe from VfW 1.1 is needed (possibly the whole package); no video acceleration | -- | Yes | Win 3.1x |