AutoArchaeologist’s manuals¶
This is the official documentation, such as it is, for Datamuseum.dk’s
AutoArchaeologist software-toolbox.
The job of the AA is to take a bunch of data files, excavate their contents, and present it as HTML files which can be spelunked in any browser.
It goes without saying, that AA does not magically understand all data in the world, somebody has to write the code to understand a particular data format, and render it as HTML.
What the AA brings, is the infrastructure to easily write, reuse and combine those programs recursively, so that a UNIX disk image, with CP/M floppy-disk image files, containing COMAL programs, are excavated in one go, instead of requring the manual application of a sequence of tools, each with different platform requirements and user interfaces.
If the artifacts you want to examine are of a kind I have encountered in Datamuseum.dk, it will not take you long to get a usable output.
If your artifacts is a newer or later version of something I reverse- engineered from scratch, the AA may be frustratingly close to “just work” for you, but some work will be required to teach the relevant examiner to also understand your version of the artifacts.
If your artifacts are terra incognita, there is real work to be done, but the AA toolbox has some very convenient and powerful tools for you.
/phk (2026-05-15)
