Painter X.
Kai’s Photo Soap, and pretty much anything by the now defunct MetaCreation co.
Those are two off the top of my head.
There’s lots more of them, just beloved apps I used to use all the time.
MicrografX Photo Paint is another.
I thnk I got the name right on that one.
Corel ‘ate’ most of those companies and not for the betterment of any of them.
I’m pretty much stuck with Photoshop for my graphics kicks, now.
Yes those are some oldies. I Guess I’m just spoiled, they may be programs that were originally designed to run on top of DOS. Most people aren’t aware that windows went from having a DOS kernel in 98 to NT in Vista. XP could run quite a few of those older programs, but not all. Windows 7 pretty much left them behind without upgrades. The real problem you have (IMHO) is that those companies either went under before patching their software to run on NT Kernel based systems. If you ever tried to use Win2k or NT as a home operating system (like I did) you probably would have dropped them or found alternatives long ago. NT sucked as a home operating system, Microsoft tried to get it to work well with Vista because XP had many issues as well with older programs.
I guess the lesson we all should have learned was not to throw out old hardware and OS’s. I do miss some of my old DOS Games, productivity programs I need to keep current to stay employed, so I have left them all far behind.