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Is there any way to extract this archive of National Geographic Maps? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OldManBrodie on 2025-07-22 21:28:16.

I found an old binder of CDs in a box the other day, and among the various relics of the past was an 8-disc set of National Geographic Maps.

Now, stupidly, I thought I could just load up the disc and browse all the files.

Of course not.

The files are all specially encoded and can only be read by the application (which won't install on anything beyond Windows 98, apparently). I came across this guy's site who firgured out that the files are ExeComp Binary @EX File v2, and has several different JFIF files embedded in them, which are maps at different zoom levels.

I spent a few minutes googling around trying to see if there was any way to extract this data, but I've come up short. Anyone run into something like this before?

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