17 January 2008
MiniCommander 3.4 for S60
Let’s Go Back To Good Ol' Days!
 Oh no, another nostalgic article about text based application from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s! Yeah I know, it is pretty pointless to write about such a soft while we are waiting the 5th generation of the series 60 platform that will bring further improvements in the graphical user interface but I am so nostalgic and I couldn’t resist.
Don’t ask me why ‘coze I don’t now, maybe because of the rainy morning but I somehow fall into influence of this wave of nostalgia that spreading around lately. I am so nostalgic about the golden age of computing the early ‘90s before the Microsoft came and bought our souls.
I have such a strange Nostalgic feeling about the good oldie MS DOS at the moment and somebody give should give me a hug, as soon as possible pleaseeeee ;)
I remember using a Norton Commander on a 286 PC at 16MHz and if you are old enough I guess that you also very well remember the two blue columns where you had to select file(s) on the one side and copy them to the next side column only by hitting the F5, without need to type any commands! Sure there was a lot of struggle, errors, low memory, batch files, but it was real, first taste of GUI.
Anyway, speaking of the MiniCommander I have to be honest and say that it's not the best manger out there, as you can see from the screenshot below and can’t be compared with the powerful file managers like the x-plore or y-browser and it's not that I want to use it but this piece of code will always have a warm place in my heart and it is just nostalgic and amazing to think how far software has come.
So if you are also nostalgic just get it, if nothing else it will remember you on times before the Microsoft, Before the Smartphones, before the Multi Touch.
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