Can anyone recommend a way to convert .FCS spreadsheet files generated by the 1980s software suite PFS:First Choice into an Excel-readable format? Alternatively, can anyone recommend a way to read the data and formulas from .FCS files?
Thanks.
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I assume you might have found this already? Is 14 years old lol
https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/cytometry/2008-March/034682.html
FCS files to Excel with Diva or FlowJo
Try this:
https://file-convert.com/flmn.htm
FileMerlin claims to be able to do the conversion. Never used it with PFS:First Choice, but the claim is asserted there on their website.
@Brian
I think thats a difference .FCS format. Not the PFS:First Choice format
If I cannot find a LibreOffice etc file converter I just find images of the software install disks and run it under emulation. Did this recently for a whole bunch of 1980’s and 1990’s vintage Mac files. Converted to RTF using a MacOS 7.6 emulator running on a Windows laptop.
Here are install disks for PFS
https://winworldpc.com/product/pfs-first-choice/3x
Also some here it seems.
ftp://wingzeroismine.privatedns.org:24/Software/
Lots of Abandon-ware out there.
Thanks guys
Here are several versions of First choice:
https://winworldpc.com/product/pfs-first-choice/3x
I’d try the latest first. They look like they’re a zip file of some sort of archive format that was contained on two disks. 7zip seems to understand both. I’d decompress the image files into a single directory and try running the program First.com, this may work depending on the version of Windows you’re running.
If not, here is a DOS emulator that seems more aligned with running programs than games:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-vdos-run-dos-programs-windows/
Here’s one that mainly concentrates on games but might work:
https://www.dosbox.com/
Thanks Mark