#jsmess 2017-01-03,Tue

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08:03 🔗 Vito` are there instructions like https://blog.archive.org/2015/05/08/making-your-dos-programs-live-again-at-the-internet-archive/ but for windows 3.1 programs
08:04 🔗 bai good question
08:04 🔗 bai I think maybe there was something in a wiki....not sure if it was archive team or github for emularity
08:05 🔗 Vito` I was trying to find the original DOS version of http://elitomlinson.com/index.php?title=Getaway_Laptop_Entertainment_6-Pack_(PC,_3_1/2%22_Disk)_Epyx_-_1991_USA,_Canada_Release
08:05 🔗 Vito` but all I can find is the Windows 3.1 remake
08:06 🔗 Vito` bai: ah you're right, archiveteam
08:06 🔗 Vito` http://digitize.archiveteam.org/index.php/Making_Software_Emulate_on_IA
08:06 🔗 bai I think basically it comes down to, you put your app in a .zip file, and you copy the metadata config from another working example
08:06 🔗 bai which references windows.zip and mounts it as drive_d
08:06 🔗 bai and your app gets mounted as drive_c
08:07 🔗 Vito` this is a bundle of like six apps, should I just upload it six times with different metadata? I don't know how or if they can be separated out.
08:07 🔗 Vito` and each item needs to be its own thing to run it anyway
08:07 🔗 bai you can probably reference the same .zip for all of them but run a different exe, yeah
08:08 🔗 bai but...yeah I dunno how that works exactly, since like you said it has to have at least one unique object
08:16 🔗 Vito` oh dang
08:16 🔗 Vito` found a working media fire link in a youtube comment on a russian video of it
08:16 🔗 Vito` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2FWi1-uL0
08:17 🔗 bai does this game entirely consist of putting things into a briefcase?
08:20 🔗 Vito` no there are six games in the set
08:21 🔗 Vito` but the briefcase game is just that, yes
08:21 🔗 bai times were simpler back then
08:22 🔗 bai "You have 5 guns, 6 hairdryers, two rolls of film, and a golf ball. How can you fit them all on your carry-on for your flight?"
08:34 🔗 Vito` eh shit
08:34 🔗 Vito` https://archive.org/details/msdos_epyx_getaway_laptop_entertainment_6_pack_1991
08:35 🔗 Vito` mediatype is set to texts instead of software
08:35 🔗 Vito` I don't suppose anyone has admin to fix that
08:42 🔗 Vito` well maybe sketchcow can poke it tomorrow
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15:39 🔗 DFJustin ftfy
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17:00 🔗 Vito` DFJustin: thanks
17:39 🔗 SketchCow Boom
17:39 🔗 SketchCow Work gets done
17:39 🔗 SketchCow Yes, I don't have entries for any of the other formats
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