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Software conservation · triage

Reopen.

Old file, unknown disk, a program nobody can run? Drop it here. Reopen reads the bytes, works out what it is, and tells you what it needs to open again — the machine, the operating system, the emulator. Then it writes the intake record for you.

  • Read in this browser tab — nothing is uploaded
  • SHA-256 fixity for every file
  • Evidence you can check by hand
01

Identify

About 160 formats — HyperCard stacks, Director movies, Flash, DOS and Windows programs, Mac and PC disk images, flux-level floppy captures, 1990s design and DTP files, web archives, chip music.

02

Assess

Obsolescence risk, the original environment, and details that date it: link dates in Windows programs, Mac type/creator codes, volume names, text encodings.

03

Record

Checksums, evidence and significant properties in one intake record — Markdown for people, JSON for your collection system.

Beyond triage

Reopen tells you what a file needs. Making it run again — building the emulated environment, documenting the decisions — is conservation work we do.

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Reopen 0.1.0 / By Färg, form och fröjd AB / No uploads, no cookies, no trackers / Identification is a starting point — confirm with Siegfried or DROID for collection records