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Microsoft Autoroute Express (1995)

23 点作者 remoquete超过 1 年前

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NikkiA超过 1 年前
Used to use Autoroute being driven by an OG garmin gps 12 for navigation and I think there was an option to display live traffic density, that I used via a startac holding a 14.4 connection to AOL (why AOL? because they had an 800 number POP that didn&#x27;t cost an arm and a leg over cell), all running on a NEC P133 laptop.<p>Microsoft &quot;Streets and Trips&quot; had better maps though, but didn&#x27;t support GPS tracking, as I remember it. By the end of the 90s MS had a handful of different mapping products, that all competed with each other in some weird way, some were under the Encarta branding, some under the Expedia branding, some just Microsoft and some Autoroute.<p>This was a year or two after the &#x27;original&#x27; release in the title though (Autoroute was a separate company for the first half of the 90s until MS bought them and rebadged their product).
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scrumper超过 1 年前
The DOS version was one of the first graphical things I ever saw. My dad pretty much lived on the road in England and one day he came home with this installed on his portable (not really a laptop). Everyone remembers their first experience with Google Maps when it came out; I had similar feelings with this as a kid. It took ages to calculate a route, but it was incredibly cool. On a black and white, slow-refresh LCD screen, the map background was black and the routes in various shades of light grey. As a Cold War kid it felt like I was some sort of spymaster or nuclear forces general using secret technology to plan my campaigns.
tempaway45751g超过 1 年前
This reminds me of a Jeff Atwood blog post from 2007 where he talks about discovering that Google Maps (2 years old at that point) was quicker to use than locally run Microsoft Streets and Trips<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;who-killed-the-desktop-application&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;who-killed-the-desktop-applica...</a><p>contains this mind bending sentence:<p><i>Combined with a USB GPS receiver and a laptop, Streets and Trips is a fine navigational aid on trips. Well, assuming you were going to take the laptop on your trip anyway, which I always do.</i><p>The world has changed so much since 2007
jjkaczor超过 1 年前
Heh... I preferred MapPoint, as it exposed a COM object interface and was controllable from other applications (like NetStumbler and VBScript) ...
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liotier超过 1 年前
I remember being pissed off when I found that NextBase had sold my beloved AutoRoute Express to Microsoft !
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rhplus超过 1 年前
Direct download of an exe with no checksums or signatures from a non-HTTPS phpBB bulletin board? How many more red-flags can we add?
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