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bunch'o'tools: A Workshop for Retro File Formats

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○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A focused collection of tools for converting, extracting, and unpacking classic Macintosh, Sega Genesis, and music-tracker files.

Why it surfaced

The site gathers four unusually specific utilities: VGM2FUR converts Genesis audio files to Furnace Tracker format, while the Macintosh tools handle resource forks, disk images, StuffIt archives, BinHex, ZIP, and MacBinary. It is a small but coherent piece of digital preservation and retro-computing plumbing.

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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers

August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.

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