Euan Cochrane

. @barbaraamsterdam.bsky.social has been writing a great blog series "30 Years of Digital Preservation", she's onto issue 2 - They're all available on her blog here: digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/

Emulating Inmagic DB/TextWorks databases with QEMU This post explains how I used QEMU to emulate an old (2004) version of the Inmagic DB/TextWorks software, and how I used the emulation to export a legacy database to a a comma-delimited text file that...

"Emulating Inmagic DB/TextWorks databases with QEMU"

bitsgalore.org/2026/02/16/e...

Game Preservation In The Digital Age: What If Servers Die? Explore the importance of Game Preservation In The Digital Age and find out simple ways to protect your favorite legacy games from vanishing!

"Game Preservation In The Digital Age: What Happens When Servers Die?" editorialge.com/game-preserv...

Join the next Art+Feminism event in partnership with Wikimedia Deutschland: 
Intro to Wikidata + Archives training session

🗓 29 Jan, 15:00–18:00 UTC
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"Google unkills JPEG XL?" tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/go... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610...

So miro.com can export board "backup" files in "rtb" format. That format is a zip file with a bunch of images and "json" files inside of it. Unfortunately the .json files are full of random binary data and are not json compliant. Poor form

"Vintage Large Language Models" "A vintage LLM is a large language model trained on texts and potentially images or other multimodal data up to a particular date." owainevans.github.io/talk-transcr...

More gratification - so great to hear of people using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social for digital preservation signature metadata. I just heard mention of using the Wikidata signature file in Siegfried! #ipres2025

"[I often find that after installing e.g. a version of flash for one artifact, I just search for it for use with other artifacts]" Paraphrased quote from Bryony Cavallaro @ the State Library of New South Wales (I think) #ipres2025 - So great to here the benefits of #EasSI being realised #AusEaaSI

So great to hear about the use of #AusEaaSI / #EaaSI in Australia. Hearing how it is also really useful for raising awareness of digital preservation is validating. Reminds me of my post on Digital Patinas www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/th... #ipres2025

Talk to Zak, Cynthia and I about Utaina, a recently completed project of mass digital preservation of about 70,000 at-risk audiovisual magnetic media at ArchivesNZ and National Library of New Zealand. Uploading our poster here. Or see the PDF version at […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservation - ross spencer :: exponentialdecay.digipres :: blog I first blogged about bsdiff in 2014. How does it stand up in terms of its potential and ease of use in 2025? Let's take a look.

Great post @exponentialdecay.bsky.social re: excessive storage- if we kept the software needed to make the change to the file, & kept the original unchanged file, could we just add the command to "fix" the file to the package to do on access in the future? exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/bsdiff-...

Screenshot from AI tool stating "AI-generated content may be incorrect"

The "beverage may be hot" of our time

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macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.

"A new disk image format" comes with McOS 26 Tahoe. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM - the sporks space Windows 98 runs surprisingly well in QEMU via UTM SE, but it requires some care in setting it up. It’s a great way to run old 90s Windows and DOS software on your iPad (and Mac too, though you have… C...

"Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM" sporks.space/2025/08/28/t... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4522...

This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC You don’t have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore.

"This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

You don't have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.

"All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

iPRES Travel Advice: Tips for the Long-Haul Journey Local Organising Committee member and athlete Carly Lenz offers her top tips for long-haul travel to Aotearoa and back.

✈️ Travel tips for your #iPRES2025 journey!🧳Local Organising Committee member and athlete, Carly, recently traveled from Wellington to Austria and back with Team New Zealand in the 2025 Roller Derby World Cup in July. Carly shares her best long-haul travel tips here: www.ipres2025.nz/post/long-ha...

Hold on, is that also intended to be drunk from plastic cups? Travesty

Ask Jeeves needs to make a comeback as an AI interface

Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy Seagate’s heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years.

" Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

Seagate's heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won’t be the last.

AI Bitrot?

"This is like inducing catastrophic brain damage in the model: with just one bit flip, accuracy can crash from 80% to 0.1%, rendering it useless,” arstechnica.com/security/202...

iPRES 2025 Ad Hoc Call for Contributions Submit your ad hoc contribution to iPRES 2025 using this form. These contributions—such as lightning talks, games, birds of a feather sessions, and more—are reviewed lightly by the Programme…

📅 Reminder! The Call for #iPRES2025 Ad Hoc Contributions closes this Friday, 18 July 2025, End of Day, Anywhere on Earth. Don't miss out on submitting your ideas for:
⚡ Lightning Talks
🤖 Games
🐦‍⬛ Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions

Submit your Ad Hoc contribution here: forms.gle/MzbEbo4k9Gbb...

LLM + FFMPEG in browser

"I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious...

This site attempts to solve that."

vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-pl... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452...

Microsoft is deprecating Publisher, so here's 5 tools I could replace it with How hard can it possibly be?

"Microsoft is deprecating Publisher," " However, the brand helpfully suggests creating a macro to export all your files in PDF format so they're still viewable, www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-pu...

Preview of Speakers at iPRES 2025 Can't wait for the official iPRES 2025 programme release? Check out our indicative list of accepted submissions so far!

👀 Excited to see who's speaking at #iPRES2025? Our draft programme is still in the works, but we have released an indicative list of accepted submissions of Full and Short Papers, Panels, Posters, Tutorials, and Workshops: www.ipres2025.nz/post/preview... Please note the list is subject to change.

Games That Weren't: Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games Games That Weren't is a Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games archive with lost prototypes, developer history and assets for many computers and consoles of all ages.

"Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History" www.gamesthatwerent.com via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438... which also mentions this EU citizens initiative www.stopkillinggames.com

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

that needs a few more signatures

IIRC Italy was the first (only?) country to mandate IS016363 compliance?

Writerperfect conversion tools for legacy file formats This post gives a brief introduction to the Writerperfect tools. These can be used to convert a wide range of legacy (mostly office) formats to the modern OpenDocument and EPUB formats.

This is really helpful: "Writerperfect conversion tools for legacy file formats" bitsgalore.org/2025/06/10/w...