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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's weird, I can't get it running in Linux. I've tried both in Firefox and the Itch client

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Okay okay, giv mig lige et øjeblik

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Actually, we showed off PILA to a wider public at the Royal Danish Library for culture night in the Black Diamond in 2018. (That's a copy of PILA there on the desktop PC, and my colleague and current head of game preservation @tatsavitr.bsky.social in the background)

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Secondhand? I guess someone must've upgraded to the Extended Edition 4K set

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can definitely recommend, just don't let it get out of hand...

A wall completely covered in DVDs, with more stacks visible in front of it, including one with just Tim Curry movies at the edge of a table.
Also four video game character plushies are visible atop the stacks: A loot bug from Deep Rock Galactic, a black hog from Figment 2, Car from What the Car, and Pixeline

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Can't get enough of that wonderful Stuff™!"

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Watched a unicorn movie today called The Wishing Forest, which has some genuinely incredible kerning. It must be seen to be believed.

Credits reading:
Unicorn Wrangler's
Mary & Dennis Patterson
The space between each "N" letter in Dennis is wider than the space after the ampersand.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's not quite yuri (although they were roommates), but I also recommend checking out Kine-san no 1-ri de Cinema if you're into trash goblin women watching psychotronic cinema.

Page 1:
Panel 1: Text box reading "Once upon a time...". Behind it is a stack of VHS-tapes with labels of children's anime.
Panel 2: A family is sitting arond a kotatsu.
Panel 3: A woman is staring intently at her daughter.
Panel 4: The daughter is shaking a little and is annoyed and flustered.
Panel 5: The father ask: "So... What happened now?". A son is complaining about having to sit through this conversation before they get to eat.
Panel 6: The mother yells angrily while pointing accusingly at her daughter: "Can you believe this!? This girl pretended not to know how to set the timer to record TV shows, but after I set it up for her, she went behind my back and changed it!!". Behind them we're shown what happened as the daughter asked her mother to record a show for her on the family VCR, which she happily agreed to do.

Page 2:
Panel 1: The father asks: "... Why would she do a thing like that?"
The mother loudly answers "Because she wanted to hide these disgusting movies she's not allowed to watch! That's not why I bought her those tapes!". The daughter is pouting with a stack of tapes in front of her. The background has the titles of many classic US horror movies such as Child's Play, Alen, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Panel 2: The mother continues: "This cunning little girl lied to me!!". The panel shows the daughter innocently asking if the mother will buy her a pack of recordable VHS tapes, so she can record Yaougo Ruga.
Panel 3: The mother continues yelling: "Today I found her watching The Exorcist! That's a super scary one!! And on top of all that, she recorded them in standard, not extended play! No wonder the tapes have been wearing out so fast!!"
Panel 4: "You have to stop! If you keep watching these weird movies, you're going to turn into an OTAKU!! And you're a girl! Shouldn't you be into girly things like dolls and playing house!?"
Panel 5: "If you really want to watch something more mature, how about you watch this trendy new drama with me?". The mother is holding up a tape reading "Tokyo Love Story", looking hopefully at her daughter.
Panel 6: The daughter flips off her mother.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Almost forgot the most important one. I think it's time for a marathon...

A blu-ray copy of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, the TV miniseries, featuring Tim Curry in the role of Trymon.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am spiralling a little bit. 😭 GNU Tim Curry.

A decent chunk of Tim Curry's filmography on physical media spread out on a couch. Everything from The Worst Witch on DVD and Bartok the Magnificent on tape to the Rocky Horror Show original cast recording on CD and Gabriel Knight 1 and 3 in PC big boxes.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@spillhistorie.no This might also be of interest to you. There's an archive of "Ole Hartvigsen's Doom Guide", which among other things hosts a bunch of Ole's own DOOM 2 WADs

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I asked an expert on these matters, and she seems to agree with you

And old piece of Windows software called "Ask Madam Alvirne" is shown. The text in the window reads:
Madam Alvirne Tells No Lies...
Type your question below... (Remember Madam Alvirne Responds Only to Yes or No)
A textbox has the query "Can Bonzi Buddy be trusted?" typed into it.
The program answered: "Are you serious?!?!?"

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Are you telling me that I can't trust this face?

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Now how am I going to surf the internet in a kid friendly manner with a cartoon monkey? Fucking Bonzi Buddy?

Splash screen for the software "Surf Monkey" version 1.5 advertising itself as "Kid Friendly Internet" by Medialive, Incorporated.
The graphic shows a blue space monkey surfing on a surfboard through space.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you think that's bad, you should see how some of the Danish Pixeline games were localised for the rest of Scandinavia...

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it. Here's the Screaming Mad George crypt sequence from the end of Bride of Re-Animator, with his commentary. You will be missed George. 😢

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Oh no, there's also a Danish game in the prize pool. Might have to cut into this month's food budget to see if I can get it for preservation, unlikely as that might be... tracker.gamesdonequick.com/tracker/ui/e...

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I am always reminded of The Story of Mel: users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklor...

You can learn a lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had no test in it. No test. *None*. Common sense said it had to be a closed loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side. It took me two weeks to figure it out.
The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this additional execution time was taken into account just as this instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head, ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word, was turned on, yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory, the largest locations the instructions could address, so, after the last datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough, the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the program went happily on its way.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My #LastFourWatched shows that I am 1: A man of fine taste and culture, and 2: Allergic to movies made in the last 20 years.

Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark.
Pamela Lee Anderson's Barb Wire.
Ken Russel's Altered States.
David Cronenberg's Scanners.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Is Adventure Game bluesky familiar with this thing?

Cover for the wrestling DVD titled The Curse of Guerilla Island, featuring four mostly naked wrestlers looking tough, with the title in the exact style of The Curse of Monkey Island. The tagline reads: "Live from Somewhere Deep in the Caribbean on October 9, 2010"

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

At hyre en skurk til at spille Skeletor er nok lige i overkanten af realisme for min smag.

Jenny Nicholson tweet med teksten: How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto let have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Did Miguel get into the Discworld or something?

The cover of Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals, showing a librarian during in front of a football team considering mostly of old wizards

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Glorious 25th of May everyone! Wear the towel, wear the lilac and GNU Sir Terry and GNU Douglas Addams

Towel around my neck and lilac flower in my hair

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Fun date idea: Arguing placements on the smart fella / fart smella grid for the characters of Ed, Edd & Eddy

Empty graph labelled "FART SMELLA" on the left of the x-axis, and "SMART FELLA" on the top of the y-axis.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Imagine the cursed ghost pirate dream adventures you'll have!

Little Nemo navigating Slumberland by ship rather than bed for once.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Audacious supports Winamp skins :3

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

...the hero drills a hole clean through the rapist with her cyborg chest drill. (Watch Steel and Lace (1990))

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How cute! I've been in a gnomish recently myself and picked up these three movies based on The Secret Book of Gnomes just the other day. <:)

Three DVDs laid out on a couch next to a curious blurry cat. The three movies are Gnomes (1980), The Gnomes' Great Adventure (1987) and The Gnomes: Adventures in the Snow (1997). Behind them is The Secret Book of Gnomes.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Oh yeah, definitely Danish. They were working on a building near me a couple of years ago.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm not personally too into more action-y or minigame-y parts of the genre, but I do know that the games we get the most requests about at the Royal Danish Library are Matematik i Måneby by Bitfrost and various Gili Soft games such as Gys på Regneslottet.

Screenshot from Matematik i Måneby, which shows the overworld view of the planet of the Gullops, and how it is developing as you've completed a bunch of math-based mini-games to help them build new structures.

Screenshot from Gys på Regneslottet (Quantum Castle) showing some numbered potions being mixed together in a cauldron by a witch, with a numbered bubble rising from the ensuing soup - and also there's a band of skeletons on the back wall of the dungeon that the scene is set in.

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Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I was quite into Age of Empires and Age of Mythology back in the day, which allowed the player to read up on every unit's real world history, which is neat when you're doing mythology.

Screenshot from Age of Mythology showing the "History" screen, which explains that you can use it to gain knowledge about different aspects of the game, including historical context.

Screenshot from Age of Mythlogy: The Titans, showing the context screen for the unit Prometheus, including a text description of the myth of Prometheus.

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