Racing games have gone a long way to tap into Australian car culture. And most of the time that meant letting us drive a Holden - HSV. Read our latest blog post by C Barkman on Australian Racing Games. playitagainproject.com/aussie-racing-…

How well do you know Bathurst's Mount Panorama circuit? Team Holden or Ford? Record your memories of playing these iconic local racing games (& many others) in our #PopularMemoryArchive playitagainproject.com #KingoftheMountain

Stephanie Harkin writes on the little known history of Australian Barbie videogames! #gamehistory #PopularMemoryArchive @sa_harkin gameshub.com/news/features/…

Gorgeous! Loving the pounamu joysticks.

The program is now online & registration is open for the "Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now" hybrid conference #BDCH23, 29 Nov-1 Dec. 3 keynotes & 2 days of great panels Join us in person ACMI or online aama.net.au/conference/ Please share. #digipres #archivingmediaarts

If you are interested in preserving born-digital heritage the Born Digital Cultural Heritage Now conference will take place at the ACMI on Wed 29 Nov–Fri 1 Dec. aama.net.au/conference #BDCH23 #ArchivingMediaArts Archiving Australian Media Arts

Interested in software preservation and emulation in Australia? Join us for a 1h zoom on #WDPD23 (2 Nov, 2 pm Melb time) as 4 researchers & GLAM pros show some of their work using #AusEaaSI, followed by Q&A w Cynde Moya, me, & AARNet Australia lead, Adam Bell.

Reminder: This #AusEaaSI presentation is happening on zoom in just over 1.5 hours time. Look forward to seeing you there. And happy #WDPD23!

Brilliant Digital's 'Choose Your Own Nightmare' Multipath Movies were spooky adventures perfect for Halloween season 🎃👻 Did you remember reading the books or playing the games? Share your memories in our #PopularMemoryArchive #gamehistory playitagainproject.com/choose-your-ow…

In person registration closes on Monday, so if you’re planning on joining us in Melbourne at ACMI, please register by then!

Do you want access to content that's reliant on obsolete software or hardware? Should your institution (university or GLAM org) have an emulation capability? Learn about #AusEaaSI & how to get involved at the last 2023 demo on 8 Dec, 11am AEDT. Register: eventbrite.com.au/e/software-pre…

A team of digital archivists is in a race against time to save Australia's digital heritage stored on obsolete systems or failing electronics. “Preserving these creations is urgent," says Professor Melanie Swalwell [Prof Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social]. adnews.com.au/news/the-race-…

This "Videogames & Hollywood" special issue will be an output from the Play It Again project, so please share with your networks and consider submitting.

Beautiful news of a re-release of a classic Aussie game! #gamehistory Play It Again

We are thrilled that the 'Play It Again' #gamehistory & #digipres project has been shortlisted for the DPC's Research and Innovation Award, sponsored by @dri_ireland. Congratulations to the other shortlisted projects - we are honoured to be in such good company🎉🙌 Play It Again

It's great to see the Play It Again #DigiPres #GameHistory project nominated for the DPC Chatter Award for Research & Innovation! We're proud to be a partner of Play It Again along with Swinburne University of Technology, ACMI and RMIT University. #EaaSI #AusEaaSI #emulation

Does anyone on here have any Australian BBSes archived? I'd appreciate it if what's left of twitter could do it's thing. I'm interested anyway, but it's obviously quite topical rn, so it'd be a great time to get them widely seen... 😉 #bbs #comphist #digitalheritage

Here are the videos of the shortlisted projects! Good luck everyone... #DPA2024