When a lot of content was being put out on CD/DVD, a number of publications did but they are not straightforwardly accessible these days because they're usually on an old version of Windows. (Yes, if you want to make a project of it, you can probably get into them but has never been worth it for me.)

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haunter 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Usually Windows/Wine is the much better case than the old Mac apps (32bit, PPC etc) in the age of Apple Silcon

https://old.reddit.com/r/thenewyorker/comments/1jlhrve/instr...

Breaking the DJVU DRM would be the perfect solution though

	▲	qingcharles 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It has been broken. I actually have the set on my desk ready to rip, I just couldn't find my USB DVD drive. Here's a link to the guy that broke it: https://github.com/reconSuave/PlayboyPDF/

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mekael 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Surprisingly, this has been a project I’ve been tinkering with for years. There is an easy way to get the raw png/jpeg files out, but it does require a windows box. Im planning on working on it more over the long holiday.

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zorked 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the disc release GP is talking about had files in DjVu format.

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Tomte 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Encrypted DjVu, and the viewer doesn‘t run on modern Windows.

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medler 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It runs great on windows 11. The install took a long time but I didn’t have to do anything special to make it work

	▲	Tomte 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe we have different editions? I never got mine to work.

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fsckboy 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

doesn't wine have old versions of mswindows pretty much nailed?

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kopirgan 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have the MAD archives bought in 90s on CDs but can't use..

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haunter 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The issues on the Absolutely MAD DVD (1952-2005) are just plain PDF files, no DRM, they work perfectly

https://files.catbox.moe/x4np6u.png

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kopirgan 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

No mine were pre dvd era. In CD. Older. They had a surprisingly good UI with its own funny stuff. Your install that and insert the disk 1-7 based on which issue you select. Even scold you for installing wrong disk & comments about 'you can insert a CD of Yanni if you prefer screeching' or something like that. Lol don't know what mad has against him their comments are always funny.

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ghaff 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The CDs I have seem to be proprietary for Windows from the late 90s. But I also have PDFs through 2005 on my computer which I must have "acquired" at some point.

	▲	kopirgan 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes the file names are something unknown. It has a software to access. They did a damn good job.
	▲	haunter 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The browser app might be some outdated Windows application, that's the case with the MAD DVD too, but you can find the actual issue files in some folders

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ghaff 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have MAD archives somewhere. I thought they were in some standard format but maybe not.

A lot of the gen 1 or so CD content isn't easily accessible although a more industrious person could probably get to it in some manner.

	▲	kopirgan 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have the CD backed up as ISO files which I can mount. Since these days laptops don't have CD players. Need to try on latest windows 11 I gave up earlier. For a while had a windows 2000 virtual machine that worked.