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Layers upon layers of emulators lead to lost databases.

It would be better to migrate the data to a very common format.

Wine is not an emulator.

WinE = Windows Emulator, unless someone changed the acronym since I was playing with WinE in the 1990's.

The acronym was changed to “Wine is not [an] emulator.” That’s the joke.

Thank You for correcting me.

Agreed, but we don't know anything about the engine and formats used in that database. Given the age I would guess something from Borland or Microsoft, but could be encrypted in a way that only their software can access to it. Hard to know without examining the CD.

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