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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 17:03:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   i ran the turbo c++ 3.1 for windows installer under wine and it did this

   love the bad acid trip vibe

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 17:11:47 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     wine somehow does run win3.1 stuff under winevdm still (on my 64-bit machine!! i have no idea how they do it, x86_64 emulator?..) but the installer is fucked

     so i decided on a different plan

     if you run `unblob` on the raw diskette images, it can recursively unpack the entire thing including the embedded LZH streams in their custom PAK format, and then you just need to fix up the directory structure

     modern tooling slaps

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 17:11:58 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     nobody could have had `unblob` or `binwalk` in 1995

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     AlexB (vmp_@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 17:19:19 JST AlexB

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     @whitequark w00t, haven't seen that image for some time

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 19:12:15 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Erin 💽✨

     @erincandescent oh, you're right, thank you

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     Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 19:12:18 JST Erin 💽✨

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     @whitequark x86_64 still supports 16-bit protected mode which is what win16 apps expect
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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 19:12:45 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

     @IngaLovinde which... thing

     i am genuinely confused here. i hope it's something really horny or cursed

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     Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 (ingalovinde@embracing.space)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 19:12:48 JST Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

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     @whitequark of course, because it's only with the corporate social media and their moderation (way after 1995) people started using "unblob" as a way to get around automatic filters catching less euphemistic ways of saying the same thing

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 20:24:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

     @IngaLovinde yes, i got that

     but what would "to blob" mean

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     Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 (ingalovinde@embracing.space)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 20:24:51 JST Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

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     @whitequark this was a reference to "unalive" word which was mentioned on my timeline just half an hour before your post