peekbot is an attempt to make vintage computing artifacts visible to the modern intarweb.It is a web proxy that allows navigation through online collections of disk images. For disk images in formats which peekbot understands, the file system contained on that disk image can be explored.
Many of the common file types found in the file systems can be converted to a format that can be viewed in a browser.For example, tokenised BASIC files can be listed as ASCII, or (some) old graphic formats converted to PNG.There is also a track/sector viewer, and any file found on a disk image can be viewed as a hex dump.
peekbot is based on ripxplore
, a ruby library for identifying and extracting data from disk images.
To get started, you could view a random picture
, or tell peekbot to goto a specific url
, or else navigate with peekbot through some online disk image archives by clicking on one of the archive descriptions below.
NB - peekbot does not archive any images itself - they are all downloaded into peekbot from the referenced archive on demand.
