Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

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Here's a quick post about the practice of media archaeology and a piece of the history of a prominent #BBS.

The @mediaarchaeologylab has a box that was donated that used to be the controller for a BBS called The Thing. It ran DOS and had a physical telephone line adapter called an IPAD (not to be confused with the Apple device) that allowed up to 16 people at a time to dial in to the BBS, which was running a commercial BBS software called TBBS.

This BBS was and still remains an important piece of the history of BBSes, because it was mainly populated by artists based in New York in the late 90s. There is still a website (https://thing.net/) though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.

I've been trying to get this box online for a while - since the Before Times - but the hard drive (a whopping 425MB) has been...uncooperative. I've previously tried to use a number of IDE interface tools to mount the drive or image it, but the platters seem not to like it very much.

Well, yesterday I brought in a device that I've owned for years but never used. It's called a Logicube Forensic MD5. It's a standalone device designed to create forensically-valid clones of hard drives and their files for law enforcement investigators that they can use to demonstrate chain of custody. This model was designed for IDE/ATA hard drives, the generation this DOS box used. I've had it in a storage closet for going on 20 years and decided to bust it out.

And you know what? This thing WORKS GREAT. It made a drive image using onboard dd which I was able to mount in other tools. It did this in minutes. From what it looks like, the entire filesystem is intact. Not only was it loaded with an unreleased beta version of the IPAD software, it seems to have a lot of BBS files stored on it that bear scrutiny. The system seems to have last booted up in 1998, so many of these files haven't seen the light of day in nearly a quarter century.

And now...the real work begins on looking through those files to see what we can learn about this important piece of history.

#mediaarchaeology #forensics #DFIR #Logicube #eSoft

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my wife's company is trying to convince people to return to the office because one of their executives thinks its embarrassing when clients come by and the offices are empty, anyways, theatre students always need some pocket money and if someone wants to join my exciting new "potemkin village as a service" startup

A thinking man's shoot-em-up, Gun Fury was a late #Amiga release due from Binary Emotions in 1997. A fun and good looking puzzler that disappeared without a trace.

More in our new post on the game: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2023/03/gun-fury/

Be Yellow Pages - Rick Silver

Admins: Keep an eye out for this bot: @r2squared.io@home.social

It's reporting users on random instances for no reason. Pain in the arse.

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CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.

Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.

All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at https://acropalypse.app/

Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.

(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)

I found this a long while ago, and it rings true every time I read it.. everyone who is othered by society has to be much more careful about our actions and words less we give "proof" that doesnt exsist.

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A new recovery thanks to Retroboy - an unfinished and early bullfighting game for the #C64 called 'La Venganza del Toro'. Added today into the GTW64 archives, which you can check out for yourselves at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/la-venganza-del-toro/

Enjoy and Happy Friday!

🐿 I beg to differ lads
🐿 But that game
🐿 is called Eric and the Floaters
🐿 by Sinclair Research
🐰 You mean by Nintendo
🦊 By Hudson
🦆 Pretty sure it was Irem
🐺 LOOK WHAT AM I WRITING ON THE MARQUEE. JUST TELL ME WHAT I'M WRITING ON THE SODDING MARQUEE.

🦊 There's that new Bomber Man game
🦆 That new what?
🦊 You know, you run around a maze dropping bombs and they explode in four directions and you try and blow your mates up
🦆 You mean DynaBlaster, that was called DynaBlaster
🐰 It was called Bomber Man
🐰 They didn't want to call it Bomber Man in your country because
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🐰
🦊
🦆 Because what
🐰 Well you know
🦊 In your country it was called Atomic Punk
🐰 No it's Bomber Man
🦊 No it was really called Atomic Punk, you have a Mandela Effect about it

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