Meanwhile, back in1998...
I'm starting to get things ready for several things that will happen in 2009: Dorkbot, Tech Adventure, the Maker Faire and the 30th anniversary of the Compukit UK101. So, naturally I need to do a web site update for the UK101 site, which has been largely unchanged since 1998 when GIF images with JavaScript roll-over code was considered state-of-the-art stuff. Now GIF images are passé and PNG is universally accepted (even for making T-shirts, it seems); roll-over code is now suspect because of all the nasty things people have found to use it for, and browsers put up all kinds of dire warnings.
Well, I need to re-create the GIF images in UK101 fonts (8x8 pixels from a 2716 EPROM) that go on the UK101 site. Can I find the C code that I wrote to do that? No. Must be on an MS-DOS machine, because that's all that will run the 6502/UK101 emulator that I wrote in 8086 assembly language. I use that to get screen-dumps that look just like the UK101, only now that we have 1600-pixel-wide screens, they look a bit small.
The point of all this is: I've just started up Windows 3.1 on a 100MHz 486 processor with probably about 4Mb of RAM and found a 1998 copy of my home page HTML on there. There's an icon for "Netscape", and sure enough, it's Netscape 2.02. And it still works.
Well, I need to re-create the GIF images in UK101 fonts (8x8 pixels from a 2716 EPROM) that go on the UK101 site. Can I find the C code that I wrote to do that? No. Must be on an MS-DOS machine, because that's all that will run the 6502/UK101 emulator that I wrote in 8086 assembly language. I use that to get screen-dumps that look just like the UK101, only now that we have 1600-pixel-wide screens, they look a bit small.
The point of all this is: I've just started up Windows 3.1 on a 100MHz 486 processor with probably about 4Mb of RAM and found a 1998 copy of my home page HTML on there. There's an icon for "Netscape", and sure enough, it's Netscape 2.02. And it still works.