[NetBehaviour] Puppet Motel

[Edward Picot]

Hi Neil -

This sounds really interesting, but I clicked on the link for the Linux 
download and ended up on a page which said "Puppet Motel 4.0.0 - mac - 
Prerelease1.zip" - and looking at your links the Linux one does look 
suspiciously similar to the Mac one. Can you check?

Edward


On 30/08/2026 10:55, Neil Jenkins via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Some exciting news. I’ve been working on the preservation of Laurie 
> Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang’s wonderful 1998 CD-ROM /Puppet 
> Motel/—and we now have the first nearly fully working modern versions 
> for Mac, Windows and Linux.
>
> It comes off the back of its inclusion in the touring exhibition I 
> created with d/Lux MediaArts here in Australia, /The Garden of Forking 
> Paths — Artists’ Computer Games/ 
> <https://computational.com.au/archive/the-garden-of-forking-paths/>, 
> which grew out of the same lively territory as Furtherfield’s fabulous 
> earlier /Game-Play/ exhibition <https://www.furtherfield.org/game-play/>.
>
> It’s alive again! The hallway, the rooms, Laurie’s voice, stories and 
> music, and all the explorable interactions. It’s a beautiful, funny 
> and genuinely important piece of digital art, and I’d love some 
> NetBehaviour friends to have a play.
>
> There are private Proton Drive test versions for:
>
>   * *Mac / Apple silicon* — this is the most tested version so far;
>   * *Windows 10/11 x64* — new and in need of adventurous Windows testers;
>   * *Linux x64* — new and aimed initially at Debian/Ubuntu-ish machines.
>
> Downloads:
>
>   * Main Proton Drive folder
>     <https://drive.proton.me/urls/15DEFYXE78#x6psynbreOBL>
>   * Mac — latest version
>     <https://drive.proton.me/urls/DVDX88KAYW#cyQjABwTSAVr>
>   * Mac — first working version (older)
>     <https://drive.proton.me/urls/DVDX88KAYW#cyQjABwTSAVr>
>   * PC — candidate for testing
>     <https://drive.proton.me/urls/DVDX88KAYW#cyQjABwTSAVr>
>   * Linux — candidate for testing
>     <https://drive.proton.me/urls/DVDX88KAYW#cyQjABwTSAVr>
>
> They’re big downloads because the whole audiovisual work is contained 
> locally.
>
> There’s no need to follow a formal test script. Please just explore, 
> get lost, click things, move the mouse around, enter rooms and see 
> what happens. I’d love to know:
>
>   * what computer and operating system you used;
>   * whether you heard the howl when the plug first lit up;
>   * whether the sign-in and hallway had sound;
>   * whether sounds and images worked as you moved between rooms;
>   * whether the films appeared, especially Laurie walking across /The
>     Nerve Bible/ set or the puppet in the Green Room;
>   * where it froze, crashed, flickered, lost colour or went silent;
>   * anything you found delightful, odd or confusing.
>
> A screenshot and the name of the room are gold if something breaks, 
> but even a quick “yes, it opened and I got into the hallway” is useful.
>
> The Mac one is the current reference version. Windows and Linux are 
> fresh test candidates, so if they fall over that is useful news rather 
> than failure.
>
> Please keep the links within this list for now and don’t mirror the 
> files. This is a friendly preservation test, not the public release yet.
>
> Have fun in the motel—and please tell me what you find!
>
> Neil
>
> computational.com.au <https://computational.com.au/>
>
>
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