alt Hacker NewsWhen a lot of content was being put out on CD/DVD, a number of publications did but they are not straightforwardly accessible these days because they're usually on an old version of Windows. (Yes, if you want to make a project of it, you can probably get into them but has never been worth it for me.)
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mekael • yesterday at 6:24 PM
Surprisingly, this has been a project I’ve been tinkering with for years. There is an easy way to get the raw png/jpeg files out, but it does require a windows box. Im planning on working on it more over the long holiday.
zorked • yesterday at 4:01 PM
I think the disc release GP is talking about had files in DjVu format.
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kopirgan • yesterday at 4:13 PM
I have the MAD archives bought in 90s on CDs but can't use..
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fsckboy • yesterday at 4:00 PM
doesn't wine have old versions of mswindows pretty much nailed?
Usually Windows/Wine is the much better case than the old Mac apps (32bit, PPC etc) in the age of Apple Silcon
https://old.reddit.com/r/thenewyorker/comments/1jlhrve/instr...
Breaking the DJVU DRM would be the perfect solution though