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Originally Posted by Ludovician
Sorry to revive such an ancient topic, but I've done as much digging as I could on my own, and now I turn to the wisdom of the internet:
In 2022, someone posted an .iso rip of the original CD-ROM of Americans 1.0 to the Internet Archive. Around the same time someone on 4chan appeared with a full recovery on Mega that was empty by the time I got to it, though I did find an Imgur album that (frustratingly) cropped out parts of every photo and I've posted some samples below.
Did anyone here download the recovery before it vanished? Failing that, could anyone with more technical wizardry take a crack at extracting any images from the .iso? I've had no such luck with the latter.
Any and all help would be much appreciated. Many thanks!  |
It isn't corrupt, it's just old software from a Mac and a pain in the ass to open the files. I was able to open a few files but stopped because it's tedious. But here are the steps.
1. Don't use the built in Windows ISO mount, it doesn't work. I downloaded a free trial of Power ISO (beware it has adware that you have to decline in the install) but I'm sure there's other good ones too.
2. Open the ISO in Power ISO or whatever program you chose and Extract all the files somewhere.
3. Download the program XnView
https://www.xnview.com/en/ and open the program and go to General -> Preferences -> General and make sure "Show all graphics formats" is checked.
4. Rename all the photos from the extracted files to .PIC and now you can open them in XnView. This is where I stopped because there's too many files. Could probably run a Windows command line or Powershell script to rename to give them the .PIC file extension in in one go.
There's also an extra file in each folder that shows up as 'Form' in Windows 11, I think it may be a text file? I know I saw some previews with the model's ages, maybe it's that. Not sure what the extension would be for that one seeing as it's from an Apple computer 30 years ago. If someone knows a fast way to rename all the files to .PIC (because there's like 800 of em) then I'm sure it could be re uploaded in a much simpler way.