gloriouscow

Okay, i'm making a separate post for visibility on this -

Someone uploaded some rare light pen drivers to Google Drive, then ascended to the astral plane. The Google Drive link is now dead.

There is one wayback machine snapshot, which gives me hope that maybe, wayback machine has the files too - but the page javascript doesn't work and I can't figure out how to derive the actual content links.

just putting this out there in case anyone has done this before - is any of this stuff retrievable?

#retrocomputing

https://web.archive.org/web/20210802162215/https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jkGKFFnP2sEMCRRGvAjKwRggkgETNnIW?usp=sharing

Light Pen Info - Google Drive

Mar 29 at 1:19amWeb
Show threadJames 🌈💜2d ago

@gloriouscow

Summary says it never stored the zip files on that page, unfortunately.

Show threadgloriouscow2d ago
@shaknais sadness
Show threadC64Whiz2d ago
@gloriouscow Which one are you looking at? Maybe viewing source and getting the .zip file name, then searching for that file name may help?
Show threadgloriouscow2d ago

@c64whiz all of them

the disk images are the most important though. The thing is they're all just modern names the uploader made up, so there are no other hits

Show threadTorsten2d ago
@gloriouscow @c64whiz ZIP name gave a hit at https://vetusware.com/manufacturer/FTG%20DATA%20SYSTEMS/ - is that related maybe?
FTG DATA SYSTEMS | VETUSWARE.COM - the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe

VETUSWARE.COM - the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe

Show threadC64Whiz2d ago

@torsten @gloriouscow

Give other search engines a try too:

Mojeek often gives "off the beaten path" results.

Show threadgloriouscow2d ago
@torsten @c64whiz I have that, but it is for a different generation of board.
Show threadTorsten2d ago
@gloriouscow @c64whiz even older: https://winworldpc.com/product/ft-156-light-pen/3x
FT-156 Light Pen 3.x

These are drivers and sample programs for use with the FTG Data Systems FT-156 light pen. This is a light pen that attaches directly to an IBM Color Graphics Adapter card.

WinWorld
Show threadgloriouscow2d ago

@torsten @c64whiz

hot shit, i think this is actually it. Thanks!

Show threadgloriouscow2d ago
@torsten @c64whiz i think we just literally doubled the number of known light pen demos
Show threadC64Whiz2d ago

@gloriouscow @torsten

Do you have an Internet Archive acct? If so, get 'em up there. If not, I'm willing to help.

Show threadgloriouscow2d ago
@c64whiz @torsten yes in good time. I have bought about half of the light pens on ebay, we have disks to image and manuals to scan
Show threadTorsten1d ago
@gloriouscow @c64whiz Awesome! Archive all the things! 🤩
Show threadgloriouscow1d ago
@torsten @c64whiz except maybe the poetry I wrote in high school