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Tube🌞Time

oh no, OLE automation. this is some sort of cursed Windows C++ OLE automation serialized object nonsense.
18 Oct 2023 at 0:37 | Open on mastodon.social
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Tube🌞Time

wait that gives me an idea, this reminds me vaguely of what Altium did with their file format.

18 Oct 2023 at 0:38 | Open on mastodon.social
Tube🌞Time

sure enough, 7zip can open it! that means it is a Windows Compound File Binary Format.
18 Oct 2023 at 0:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Tube🌞Time

and the Object Data file within contains...yet more crap.
18 Oct 2023 at 0:43 | Open on mastodon.social
Tube🌞Time

so i think it would be easier to track down a copy of the software and install it on an old PC, then save it as some other format, rather than trying to reverse engineer this mountain of binary garbage.

18 Oct 2023 at 0:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Tube🌞Time

there are three lessons here:
1. internet search has been made nearly completely useless by SEO spam and autogenerated websites.
2. never trust proprietary software. use open source software or software that generates human readable files.
3. maybe print out your important documents

18 Oct 2023 at 0:46 | Open on mastodon.social
Funky Bob

@tubetime It's also not helped by search engines being manic about guessing what you really meant, rather than ever believing you might want to find _exactly_ what you searched for.

18 Oct 2023 at 1:23 | Open on chaos.social
Owen Mehegan

@tubetime
I'm pretty sure I can still open the papers I wrote in Abiword as an English major 20 years ago... I should check that and maybe convert them to rtf.

18 Oct 2023 at 1:48 | Open on mastodon.au
computerywar

@tubetime
Perhaps the shareware installer contained in this bin file will help?
archive.org/details/computer20

I'd probably run this in a VM since its possible that it could have some unsavory additions...

18 Oct 2023 at 2:10 | Open on infosec.exchange
jz.tusk

@tubetime

Pour one out for all the RealPlayer files that people saved from Web 1.0.

18 Oct 2023 at 5:10 | Open on mastodon.social
FantasmitaAsex :heart_ace:

@tubetime actually Duck Duck Go works better than Google and Bing .

18 Oct 2023 at 5:34 | Open on todon.eu
Tube🌞Time replied to FantasmitaAsex

@FantasmitaAsex i had nearly identical results/issues with ddg.

18 Oct 2023 at 21:53 | Open on mastodon.social
zbrando

@tubetime I would say that more than proprietary software the problem is the proprietary file format.

18 Oct 2023 at 6:05 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
F4GRX Sébastien

@tubetime 3 and a half - use standard file formats.

I tried to understand the file format of cubase 7. It's an undescript rude goldberg machine made of AIFF chunks!

18 Oct 2023 at 6:54 | Open on chaos.social
Spacecat🐈‍⬛
Infinity

@tubetime If you don’t mind e-mailing your AXD files to someone named Ralph Grabowski, they’ll get converted to DWGs and sent back to you: worldcadaccess.com/blog/2015/1

18 Oct 2023 at 3:21 | Open on infosec.exchange
http :verified:

@tubetime That's probably the best thing to do.
What I have learned from my old files: Don't try to store in other formats. You may lose data of that proprietary software, like vector graphics convert to a jpg. But keep the software you used. If you need it later, you can always run that old software in a VM and edit or export what you need.

18 Oct 2023 at 10:13 | Open on infosec.exchange
Hubert Figuière

@tubetime maybe it is an OLE container. Like MS Office or Visio binary files.

18 Oct 2023 at 0:55 | Open on cosocial.ca
William
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