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moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

Doing a stream to work on my top secret DOSember project. Does it involve the SCUMM engine? Yes. Can you guess what it is by looking at the stream? Probably. Will I pretend that it's still a mystery in the face of all that? Almost certainly.
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Mystery DOSember project! You can probably guess what it is by looking, but respect the kayfabe!

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November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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Emmy

@emmfoolery.bsky.social

I made a shorter game (for DOS) with worse graphics (CGA) and I'm NOT KIDDING.

It's free, it's silly, and you can download it here!

(Est. 20-30 minutes for a first playthrough.)

Emmy, Fool of Fen by emmfoolery

A short, silly, swampy adventure for MS-DOS.

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October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

ScummVM fixing stream! More treachery in Mean City! Warmup: invisible horrors!
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October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

Live after a two week break! My brain is perfectly spherical! I must refurrow it with Land of UM and a mystery DOSember project!
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Hi there. My name is Scott, I am non-binary, from Australia, and I love reverse engineering. I've been streaming some of my game preservation work adding Macromedia Director support to ScummVM, a belo...

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October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

There will be a stream soon, trying to figure out why my config has rotted

October 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

No streams for the next couple of weeks, I have real world commitments

October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

ScummVM fixing stream! Last time we got caught in the weeds of a big refactor, but this week we can hopefully spend some quality time with Mean City and that misanthrope penguin.

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Fixing ScummVM! Another Pingu/Mean City double feature! Please God no more big rewrites!

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October 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

It's late and I have deadlines, let's play more Australian edutainment to skive off.
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This is now a Land of UM stream. That and SCUMM decompilation.

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October 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM

moralrecordings

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ScummVM fixing stream! Leaving a bad review for Mean City on TripAdvisor! Warmup: noot noot
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Fixing ScummVM! Leaving a bad review for Mean City on TripAdvisor! Warmup: noot noot

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October 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

An Australian edutainment game, which I had fond memories of growing up, was apparently dumped very recently. Can I finish it in one sitting? Maybe! Also: writing a disassembler for the SCUMM engine to help with [redacted]!
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Hi there. My name is Scott, I am non-binary, from Australia, and I love reverse engineering. I've been streaming some of my game preservation work adding Macromedia Director support to ScummVM, a belo...

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September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM

moralrecordings

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ScummVM fixing stream! Her Interactive released a 5-CD FMV dating sim which uses Director, so that's what we're looking at today!
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September 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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Chloe Appleby

@chloeappleby.bsky.social

The whole point of digital preservation is capturing the humanness of its context e.g. maker, the experience and its impact. That is what future generations will care about. Once you bring AI into the mix you might as well delete it and spit in my eye.

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · Sep 14

Whatever its merits for other uses, I hope archivists can agree that generative AI is a really bad idea for archival description. If you're trying to explain the context for rare materials, you are never, in a trillion years, going to get that by pointing an algorithm at them

September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

ScummVM fixing stream! Aiming to find all of the hidden vampire scrolls in Canadian FMV vampire game GOTHOS! Warmup: "learn English or DIE!"
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Fixing ScummVM! Finding all of the vampire scrolls in GOTHOS! Warmup:

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September 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

Monday night stream. I've finished making my DOS adventure game. What's next? It involves a noisemaking toy, and I have maybe a 20% idea of what I'm doing
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September 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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Michael

@michaelklamerus.bsky.social

Indie Game Roundup (September 6, 2025)
virtualmoose.org/2025/09/06/i...

a guy standing in a prison with a skeleton

a few people standing at a trainstation in the late 1800s at night

a person at the front of a space ship looking at space

September 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

A big thank you to Davide Depau - who saw that Toshiba/Dynabook had a collection of laptop drivers dating back to the 1990s, and had the instinct of "I need to archive all of this right now before it rots". For that day has indeed come, and his mirror saved my bacon.

toshiba-mirror.depau.gay

Toshiba/Dynabook Drivers and Manuals Archive

Driver archive for Toshiba and Dynabook laptops

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September 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM

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moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame

Person wearing blue coveralls standing in the cockpit of a spaceship, watching a meteor pass the window. There is a blue inventory bar at the bottom of the screen.

September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame

September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

For the past year, I've been making an adventure game for DOS. It's been fun, but it's now ready to ship. Tonight we finish the few last-minute tasks and hit the big switch!
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September 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Rachel Withers

@rachelwithers.bsky.social

Appalling news about a historic and beloved publication, one which has run such powerful work on Palestine and our national debate under the stewardship of Esther Anatolitis and Eli McLean.

A disturbing time for our creative and literary landscape.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

September 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM

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Emmy

@emmfoolery.bsky.social

The DOS Game Jam starts in less than a day!

We're two participants away from 100! Will you be the one to make number go up?

DOSember Game Jam

A game jam from 2025-08-31 to 2025-11-30 hosted by emmfoolery. DOSember is an annual streaming event on twitch.tv Now approaching its 6th year, DOSember participants spend the entire month of December...

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August 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

ScummVM fixing stream! We continue being a snarky vampire in the 3-disc FMV odyssey GOTHOS! Warmup: Oscar Wilde??
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Fixing ScummVM! Continuing to wander the streeets of GOTHOS! Warmup: Oscar Wilde??

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August 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM

moralrecordings

@moralrecordings.bsky.social

One. One animation. That's all I have left to draw in this DOS adventure game project I am working on. Watch as I regret in real time not finding a cheaper way to write it out of the narrative.
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