Archiving Immemory by Chris Marker
Formerly a CD-ROM, Immemory by Chris Marker was ported to a public Flash website on Gorgomancy.net . Due to the phasing out of Flash, the incompatibility of the CD-ROM with many modern devices with updated operating systems, it’s quite difficult to experience it in 2021 without using an old machine or emulator like SheepShaver.
I used an older machine to save the swf files and began playing them in an old version of Adobe Flash Player which also gave me readouts of errors and missing files. I pieced together the flash site and tried to find all the files and create an archive. I used Warcit to package the site and uploaded it to Conifer / Rhizome . If it were to be ported again for modern devices, I think it would be better to transpose it from the CD rom and Hyperstudio files given the compressed nature of the Flash files. This might best be done using HTML5 and Javascript. Some of the transitions and effects may simply not be translatable. But who knows how long Javascript and html5 might be around? Perhaps the WARC format by the Internet Archive is a good option, at least for now.
I also explored the Hyperstudio versions but had some difficulty...the original cursors aren’t available...I also had trouble with the Poetry page, similar to the flash site, it seems like a dead end. Yet I see the stacks and swf files...I believe the links just need to be examined. It would be nice to have a high quality, accessible version with all of the sounds and links operational.
View Immemory in English at Conifer