Domesday Explorer is the electronic version of Great Domesday Book, the culmination of twenty years research and development (1980-2000) by the Domesday Explorer team. Originally published by Phillimore & Co (2000), Domesday Explorer is now available for purchase as a CD-ROM from The History Press, with selected Reviews here. Features
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System Requirements Domesday Explorer will run all versions of Microsoft Windows, although note that an update to the Borland Database Engine is required for Windows 7 and above (see Updates section on this page). | Help For extensive help on using Domesday Explorer and understanding the data and coding used in it, please see: Following reports Domesday Explorer would not run on later versions of Windows, we have determined the problem lies with the Borland Database Engine (BDE) on which Domesday Explorer relies. The BDE itself works fine, but the installer is broken on modern Windows versions. Unfortunately, Borland stopped releasing updates to their installer. We have created a script which will install the BDE as shipped with Domesday Explorer on modern versions of Windows (both 32 and 64 bit). It is a simple batch file that copies some files and makes some entries in the registry. Instructions are provided on the Installing the BDE page. We have also successfully used this one from a third party developer using binary Windows installer technology. It seems to be OK, but we can't vouch for the contents. Update to Domesday Explorer: version 1.1 Update to Domesday Explorer v1.0 help file An update to the Domesday Explorer help file can be downloaded from the Downloads page. |