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The Icon Bar: News and features: BBC Domesday online
 

BBC Domesday online

Posted by Phil Mellor on 17:02, 26/5/2005 | , , , , , , ,
 
Domesday1986.comNow this is something I didn't expect to see for quite a while - the BBC Domesday project has been resurrected online and made freely accessible to the general public.

Working with the National Archives, Longlife Data Ltd have created a web version (compatible with IE, Firefox and Netscape - it's not happy with current RISC OS browsers) providing most of the maps, text and photographs from the community discs. They haven't preserved the original BBC interface, instead implementing a groovy four panel window allowing various bits of content to be displayed simultaneously. The second disc (The National Disc) which contained photo galleries and virtual reality walkthroughs is still unavailable.

Neat.

Links:
Domesday1986.com
Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs (Ariadne)
National Archives
CAMiLEON - Emulation and BBC Domesday (Iconbar)
Countdown from Domesday (Foundation RISC User)
 

  BBC Domesday online
  ad (17:37 26/5/2005)
  ad (17:38 26/5/2005)
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        monkeyson2 (11:02 27/5/2005)
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            flibble (10:52 31/5/2005)
 
Andrew Duffell Message #93566, posted by ad at 17:37, 26/5/2005

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Either I'm missing something, or it isn't working in Oregano 1
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Andrew Duffell Message #93567, posted by ad at 17:38, 26/5/2005, in reply to message #93566

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Oregano 2 fails too, but a bit more obviously: "Device not supported"
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Andrew Duffell Message #93568, posted by ad at 17:41, 26/5/2005, in reply to message #93567

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Ah... it seems to check your user-agent. All fail (white page) when faking MSIE6 et al, and all fail with error message displayed when giving a correct user agent.

Great!

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Peter Howkins Message #93569, posted by flibble at 10:57, 27/5/2005, in reply to message #93568
flibble

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It doesn't work on o3 yet either ... but it will. I've narrowed it down to a 5 line test case, and I'll bung it too the top of the fix list. Cos I want this one to work :)
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Phil Mellor Message #93570, posted by monkeyson2 at 11:02, 27/5/2005, in reply to message #93569
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

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Yay!
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Peter Howkins Message #93571, posted by flibble at 11:54, 27/5/2005, in reply to message #93570
flibble

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Grr, typical someones fixed it already ... leaving the next bug on the page to move onto.
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Peter Howkins Message #93572, posted by flibble at 10:52, 31/5/2005, in reply to message #93571
flibble

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Hmm, who broke it, it wasn't me ;)
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