Opening Johan’s Quattro Pro files in Quattro Pro 6 for Win 3.11
I read Johan’s fascinating post this morning about the obsolescence of Quattro Pro formats.
Quattro Pro for DOS: an obsolete format at last?
While browsing ArchiveTeam’s File Formats Wiki earlier this week, I came across some entries I created there on Quattro Pro spreadsheets two years ago. At the time I had also contributed some old Quattro Pro for DOS spreadsheets (here and here) from my personal archives to the OPF format corpus. Seeing those files again, I decided to spend an afternoon trying to access them using modern-day software. This turned out to be more challenging than expected. It even made me wonder whether, at long last, I had finally run into a case of the much discussed (but rarely observed) phenomenon of format obsolescence. Yes, big words indeed, and if anyone would like to prove me wrong, the comments section below is your friend!
Running archived Android apps on a PC: first impressions
Earlier this week I had a discussion with some colleagues about the archiving of mobile phone and tablet apps (iPhone/Android), and, equally important, ways to provide long-term access. The immediate incentive for this was an announcement by a Dutch publisher, who recently published a children’s book that is accompanied by its own app. Also, there are already several examples of Ebooks that are published exclusively as mobile apps. So, even though we’re not receiving any apps in our collections yet, we’ll have to address this at some point, and it’s useful to have an initial idea of the challenges that may lie ahead.
EaaS: Image and Object Archive — Requirements, Implementation and Example Use-Cases
EaaS in Action — And a short meltdown due to a friendly DDoS
bwFLA EaaS: Releasing Digital Art into the Wild
With the bwFLA Emulation-as-a-Service you can enable users to view your (interactive) objects without actually giving the environment+object to the user. This is a nice feature, especially for dig. art and similar: you can provide access to an almost unlimited amount of people being able to view, use and interact with a piece of dig. art without being able to copy it. The owner remains in control of the object and is able to restrict access any time.
Software Museums (Archives)
During and around this year’s iPRES a couple of discussions sprung up around the topic of proper software archiving and it was part of the DP challenges workshop discussions. With services emerging around emulation as e.g. developed in the bwFLA project (see e.g.
bwFLA Demo – Emulation-based Ingest and Access Workflows
It has been quite some time since the last update of the bwFLA demo instance. Sine then we have significantly improved usability and added a lot of new and hopefully useful features. With a first complete implementation of ingest and workflows it is time to release new version of the bwFLA framework.
Preliminary notes:
SCAPE Planning and Watch: Two years and a bit more
Networking in EaaS (virtual networks)
Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) can simplify the provisioning of emulation for end-users’ needs without requiring them to install and configure complex toolchains on their devices.