# magic school (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover magic school. Page: Feed: --- ## [What's Up With That Song From the Duck Game on Amiga CD-32 Anyway?](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/06/whats-up-with-that-song-from-the-duck-game-on-amiga-cd-32-anyway/) _2026-08-06 · The Future Is Now_ If you spend enough time on certain corners of YouTube there’s a good chance you’ve run into “they didn’t have to go this hard” videos where people highlight the kinds of songs they’ve found in obscure places they allege had no reason to be as good as they are. And, should you land on the video game sub-niche of this particular niche, there’s a very good… ## [Decoding Magic School Lunar's Save Game Format](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/01/decoding-magic-school-lunars-save-game-format/) _2026-08-01 · The Future Is Now_ As I’ve mentioned in a previous post , I’ve been working on a fan translation for a Sega Saturn game called Magic School Lunar! As I get closer to the end of the process I’ve been doing more playtesting, but since I’m only testing the script at this point I found myself wanting to cut out the parts of the game I don’t really need to be testing right now. This game has… ## [Searching for the Broken-down Chiptune Player of My Dreams](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/01/searching-for-the-broken-down-chiptune-player-of-my-dreams/) _2026-08-01 · The Future Is Now_ This is a story from the old days before we had YouTube or the bandwidth to stream audio. Back then, if you wanted to listen to music from a video game, maybe you could track down an official soundtrack CD—or, if you were a mega nerd like me, you’d download ripped chiptunes and their special players. These files are basically cut-down versions of the original game data, containing the… ## [Forget Spreadsheets, I Wrote My Own Visual Game Script Editor](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/03/27/forget-spreadsheets/) _2026-03-28 · The Future Is Now_ People who have been following me on social media may know that, for the past few years, I’ve been working on a fan translation project for a Sega Saturn RPG called Magic School Lunar . With technical and initial playtesting work wrapping up, that project is finally entering the late phases and I’m now reaching a point where I’m going to be doing a lot of rewriting of the English… ## [It's Not Called Watchy; or, Solving a Minor Video Game Mystery](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/12/22/watchy/) _2025-12-23 · The Future Is Now_ Flexing the brevity muscle today with a short post to set the record straight on a weird video game history quirk I spotted online. For reasons that aren’t important 1 , I was looking up an extremely obscure 90s PC game called Team 47 GoMan . Absolutely no one has heard of this game before, which doesn’t seem to be fondly (or at all) remembered, which explains why there wasn’t… ## [Dist 0.28.1 Is Out](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/07/20/dist-0-dot-28-dot-1-is-out/) _2025-07-20 · The Future Is Now_ I’m happy to announce that I’ve been granted permission to resume development on dist/cargo-dist , the easy-to-use binary packaging and distribution tool. As someone who uses dist a lot in my own projects, I’ve been hoping to be able to keep the project going and I hope this will be useful for other people as well. I’ve just released version 0.28.1 , a bugfix release based… ## [The Database Row That Did and Didn't Exist](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/05/13/the-database-row-that-did-and-didnt-exist/) _2025-05-13 · The Future Is Now_ Every now and then, I run into a bug so mystifying on its face I know it’s going to be a journey just from the error message. This is one of those stories. I work at a Python shop right now, and we were upgrading an app to Django 5. There are a few breaking changes, but nothing too unexpected or out of the ordinary. Everything was working great in our development environment, but once we… ## [What You Might Miss When Backing Up CDs](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/01/23/what-you-might-miss-when-backing-up-cds/) _2025-01-24 · The Future Is Now_ I’ve written a bit recently about CD-ROM preservation and some of the more niche, easily-missed parts of the format. I’ve covered the formats themselves, but I felt it might help to provide some concrete examples of the kind of data that can easily be missed and that might not get backed up. As I mentioned in a previous post , many CD disc image formats don’t include the… ## [Announcing Cue2ccd: A Tool to Convert BIN/CUE Disc Images to CloneCD](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/12/15/announcing-cue2ccd-a-tool-to-convert-bin-slash-cue-disc-images-to-clonecd/) _2024-12-15 · The Future Is Now_ I’m releasing a tool I wrote for myself: cue2ccd , a commandline tool to convert CD-ROM disc images from the BIN/CUE format to the CloneCD format. For as many disc image conversion tools as there are out there, I hadn’t found anything open-source or cross-platform that can handle going between these two specific formats—so I wrote it myself. This is a very niche tool, but it… ## [What Happened to the Japanese PC Platforms?](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/09/21/what-happened-to-the-japanese-pc-platforms/) _2024-09-21 · The Future Is Now_ (This was originally posted on a social media site; I’ve revised and updated it for my blog.) The other day a friend asked me a pretty interesting question: what happened to all those companies who made those Japanese computer platforms that were never released outside Japan? I thought it’d be worth expanding that answer into a full-size post. A quick introduction: the players… ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/P3WGCYkl19Sb) _2024-09-21 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools](http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/09/13/the-working-archivists-guide-to-enthusiast-cd-rom-archiving-tools/) _2024-09-13 · The Future Is Now_ I’ve seen a lot of professional archivists who use flux disc image archiving techniques for their collections—a technique in which a specialized floppy controller captures the raw signal coming from the floppy drive so that it can be preserved and decoded in software. I haven’t, however, seen many archivists using enthusiast-developed low-level reading techniques for CD-ROM.…