Case study

Blackmoor reconstruction project: recovering Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor

Blackmoor reconstruction project recovers the x86 GAME.EXE of Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor and develops a native ARM64 macOS port. It records function boundaries, assembly recovery and binary findings, and the author reports a source build matching the original executable's SHA-256. The native port remains incomplete and unplayable.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

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Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

A local copy of the GOG GAME.EXE is used to generate comparison objects.
The x86 assembly build uses GNU as 2.43.1.
The native reconstruction is incomplete and not yet playable.

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BibTeX

@misc{blackmoor-reconstruction-case,
  title = {{Blackmoor reconstruction project: recovering Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/blackmoor-reconstruction-case/}}
}

Plain text

Blackmoor reconstruction project: recovering Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor. https://github.com/albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/blackmoor-reconstruction-case/

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README.md GitHub · albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp · Revision 0a8118e
outputs/blackmoor-decomp/M0-binary-census-report.md GitHub · albovsky/nd-blackmoor-decomp · Revision 0a8118e