Seeking help to preserve WWII database on Windows 98
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But yeah, I also don't appreciate the restrictions.
I'm not sure where to go as an alternative; Mastodon doesn't have the same community or blend of personalities and viewpoints as Twitter. Ah well.
I’m sure getting advertisers a better ROI is the goal. I’m glad someone is doing something about the bots. Jack et all didn’t give two shits and lied to investors and advertisers. This is a welcome change.
If you want a platform full of bots, build your own. Simple as.
Instead it looks like we will be paying AND they will be selling our data and shoving adverts in our faces willy nilly as before.
Stuff ‘dealing with bots’, this is worse.
Example: You pay for a vehicle and they take all of your vehicle data and resell it. Uber as another, you pay for the ride yet get ads on your journey. There are many more examples.
Just be honest about your bias against X and Elon.
I'm not 'biased' against Mr. Musk, I think he has many impressive accomplishments under his belt. I just won't blindly praise everything he does. I wish his 'anti-establishment' senses would make him more anti-bulk collection, it seems inconsistent to me.
In particular, some public safety / emergency response accounts post safety-critical real-time updates. Visiting their pages when not logged in provides data that is years out-of-date.
I'm hoping this causes a rapid exodus and my one use case for twitter goes away.
Maybe a paywalled website that is actively hostile to non-users shouldn't be considered a source of news ?
Huh? Unless you meant that you can't play without JavaScript (which is unfair considering that the other website can't even load with JavaScript off), this is blatantly false that I even doubt if you have really used it.
Very interesting. Is there a framework or helper for this?
Seems useful for things like games or audio DAWs in particular.
It shouldn't be that different for DAWs. By the way, I experimented a while ago with Alpine Linux and Yabridge to achieve a very small system that works as a host for both native and Windows .vst plugins. The goal would have been a MiniPC configured as synthesizer that boots very quick and does just that, with both studio use and live performance in mind. I got to the point plugins were converted but loading them failed. Probably using a musl based distro was asking too much, but I'll try again in the future (just moved to a new house, everything is packed) as Alpine Linux is so much faster and smaller compared to other distros that to me it makes the best candidate for building appliances where the operating system exists for the sole purpose of loading a dedicated software, therefore must not get in the way with resources consumption, automatic updates etc.
nowadays https://porteus-kiosk.org seems to be recommended (but i haven't used it).
It would be better to migrate the data to a very common format.
Anyway, that should provide much higher-fidelity emulation than Wine, and is also easier to keep off the network, etc. Also, I guess it runs on Arm processors these days (since it's an emulator, and not a hypervisor):
https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
Wine is generally more convenient if it works though.
It's ancient Windows, OP doesn't know Access, UI looks like something from the 90s, Windows 98 is the most famous of the 90s Windowses(?).
As evidenced by how it's seemingly running fine on Windows Vista using whatever version of Access that is, either:
A) Any newer version of Access should be able to at least open that thing fine.
B) Whatever version of ancient Access that will open that should run just fine on Windows 11.
Microsoft's commitment to backwards compatibility shines, especially in these types of circumstances.
Given, as you say, Microsoft's commitment to backwards compatibility, it is very likely in my opinion that a modern computer running 32-bit Windows 10 (not Windows 11, as they dropped the 32-bit version and therefore finally dropped 16-bit software support entirely) would run this software fine. It is also likely, as you say, that modern Access could import the underlying database (does Access 2023/365/whatever import Access 2.0 databases? Who knows! Not I, I don't touch the stuff ;)
I’m glad the access mess is over, I do wish you hadn’t triggered that memory though :P
The department discovered their newer versions of Office weren't backwards compatible, so they just kept the last PC everything worked on. It wasn't a Pentium D-series, but it was pretty close.
edit: Reading the third paragraph here[0] it seems that all of this data is definitely stored at different museums and libraries.
[0]https://ww2truslow.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/burns-documen...
Pic is of Vista running on a HP DV6000.
Perhaps Vista was the last OS to have a 98 application mode.
He could do a Vista (or earlier) VM running on Hyper-V in Win 10/11 Pro (or hacked Home). If the WWII CD is ripped to an ISO, it'll mount like a CD.
Vista install ISO: https://archive.org/details/vista_x64
Windows 98 install ISO: https://archive.org/details/windows-98-se-isofile
CD-Roms are still there and the the underlying tech is also still the same.
I think the problem is, thread author doesn't know how to rip an ISO of the CD or move the database out; looks like they are getting help already though.
https://youtu.be/yxJDK5xmTFQ?si=5yJScYparrURTAWH
And here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
You just don't get accelerated graphics or USB sharing.
> You just don't get accelerated graphics or USB sharing.
Every OS that has to use VESA in a VM is slow. It doesn't mean they're "unsupported". Unsupported would imply that the OS doesn't boot/function properly or that you have to do abnormal things to get it to work.
It's not like Oracle offers some sort of guarantee that your Windows 7 guest will function or offer support if you have issues.
Actually, that is not necessarily true. If properly done, VESA is just a large shared memory framebuffer which is practically as fast as you can get on a VM, barring 3D acceleration which the GUI of 9x doesn't really benefit from.
Heck, for a fun experiment, Haiku on _real hardware_ using "VESA" (actually, the EFI GOP) beats the shit out of Windows 11 with accelerated GPU drivers. Even dragging windows around feels much faster in Haiku. Obviously 3D is going to be a problem, but...
Qemu shows that VESA/SVGA drivers can perform decently, the VBox team just hasn't prioritized making them do so. But the point stands that a non-accelerated video option will perform worse than an accelerated one for all VMs for anything but the simplest of blitting pipelines.
> But the point stands that a non-accelerated video option will perform worse than an accelerated one for all VMs for anything but the simplest of blitting pipelines.
That's why I put the example that Haiku on a completely not accelerated framebuffer performs miles better than Windows 11 on an accelerated 2 year old GPU. The GUI parts only, of course. Try it. It's just insane difference. And yes I do have 5k screens..
For 9x, even if it actually supported 2D acceleration, newer cards seem to do a terrible job at it.
What does "supported" mean? Are you a paying Oracle customer? Because otherwise _nothing_ is supported.
If you pay them, they for example support several 9x era hardware (like the SB16).
Oracle isn't going to guarantee your Windows 7 install works or help you debug issues. And running an OS non-accelerated is a perfectly valid and functional way of doing so, even if it doesn't fit your personal metric of usability.
Regardless, you implied that something changed for the worst. VBox offers as much "support" in version 7.0 as they did in 1.0. If anything it's better today as VBox used to be unbearably unstable in VESA or SVGA modes:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=83281
And running 16-bit applications (WoW/ntvdm) on 64-bit VBox installs used to crash the whole machine (or run unbearably slow) due to incomplete CPU emulation, something that has since been remedied. A feature that only old 32-bit Windows OSes use.
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#settings-system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIIX#/media/File:Intel_sb82371...
One of my favorites: https://fultonhistory.com/ (click on the "Go and Search My Archive" link). Tom has done an amazing job of scanning and posting old historical photos and newspaper archives, but will it last once he's no longer able to maintain it?
I often hear suggestions like "let Ancestry take them over" or "the Internet Archive is the solution." I have to ask: Will either be operational in 20 years, or the data on them as easily accessible as they are now?
Ancestry is currently operated by Blackstone, the third or fourth PE firm to do so in the past 15 years. Blackstone has no qualms with deleting services that no longer meet its needs (https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2023/08/ancestry-disconti...) or paywalling records and then jacking up the price every few years (https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/were-increasing-our-...).
IA's web archive is a great resource, but it always seems to be begging for money and its founder's futile campaign against book publishers isn't helping.
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I like to believe that the best data repositories are the ones that are forgotten.
That said, I hope someone comes up with a consumer-affordable, long-term storage medium soon.
Those DVDs made of rock supposedly last a long time, but it would be nice to have something that lasts 1000s of years.
CDROM is a terrible way to store data. Any frontend to dd could back the CDROM up 1:1. That should be the first and primary focus. After that and an upload of however long (depending on internet connection), the wisdom of the crowd could be utilized. Even if the requirement of Windows 98 is correct, any VM (perhaps even ReactOS) could access it.
It's been at least 10 years since I had a CD/DVD drive though, so it might have been a mode of one of the dd_rescue/ddrescue/dd-rescue programs??
For audio CDs, I've always used EAC [1] with secure mode. I believe I even used it within Wine. It yielded better results than cdrecord.
Morgoth, FlashFXP, Preee, hkSFV, DCPP, and all that beautiful Windows software also worked in Wine.
It will absolutely die with him. Its unfortunate that when the NYS Legislature appropriated money to scan thousands (millions) of newspapers to microfiche, they did not provide any funding for digitization.
2) Use one of the open source Access file readers (e.g., Jackcess) to do the same. Make a backup first!
Where I work we still occasionally use Office 97 with all the strange things it does to take over your desktop and that paperclip. It works just fine in Windows 10 and could probably open that database and see the SQL tables, it would probably not be hard at all to load the SQL tables in Postgres. I did a data import project for that kind of database and I am waiting for the QA people to tell me I did it right.
I do know I was unable to open the database w/ the current Office 365 and was told to go back and get the old Office.