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In all seriousness, I was once looking for a truly ancient version of WINE (mid-90s, I was curious about its Win16 implementation in those days). There didn’t s
by andrewf 3y ago
In all seriousness, I was once looking for a truly ancient version of WINE (mid-90s, I was curious about its Win16 implementation in those days). There didn’t seem to be any standalone archives surviving, but source and binaries were present on a mid-90s set of Debian ISOs. I’m glad they make stand-alone artifacts.
- LtWorf 3y agoOr, online here http://snapshot.debian.org/package/wine/ http://snapshot.debian.org/package/wine/
- londons_explore 3y agoPresumably source is well preserved in anything that uses a version control system?
- LtWorf 3y agoYou need a whole snapshot of the entire machine to compile, if it's very old the possibility that it just build with modern dependencies are basically 0.
- chmod775 3y ago> I’m glad they make stand-alone artifacts. Note that the shelf live of many types of CDs and DVDs isn't all that long and you shouldn't rely on them to preserve things. Some will be unreadable in less than a decade. It varies a lot by materials used (Table 2, also note the paragraph preceding it): https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...
- ManuelKiessling 3y agoIt says „Now using Ritek Pro 60+ year archival quality DVDs.“ in the details.
- brirec 3y agoJust be aware, these discs are expected to last more than 60 years, but we sure don’t have a single surviving example of a 60+ year old DVD yet!
- IYasha 3y agoNot a word on M-Discs? o.O Weird.