diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/authors.txt b/extra/openal/authors.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/authors.txt
rename to extra/openal/authors.txt
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/backend/authors.txt b/extra/openal/backend/authors.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/backend/authors.txt
rename to extra/openal/backend/authors.txt
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/backend/backend.factor b/extra/openal/backend/backend.factor
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rename from unmaintained/openal/backend/backend.factor
rename to extra/openal/backend/backend.factor
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/example/authors.txt b/extra/openal/example/authors.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/example/authors.txt
rename to extra/openal/example/authors.txt
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/example/example.factor b/extra/openal/example/example.factor
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rename from unmaintained/openal/example/example.factor
rename to extra/openal/example/example.factor
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/macosx/authors.txt b/extra/openal/macosx/authors.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/macosx/authors.txt
rename to extra/openal/macosx/authors.txt
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/macosx/macosx.factor b/extra/openal/macosx/macosx.factor
similarity index 84%
rename from unmaintained/openal/macosx/macosx.factor
rename to extra/openal/macosx/macosx.factor
index abc0d65fb9..81d360eca1 100644
--- a/unmaintained/openal/macosx/macosx.factor
+++ b/extra/openal/macosx/macosx.factor
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2007 Chris Double.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 USING: alien.c-types kernel alien alien.syntax shuffle
-combinators.lib openal.backend namespaces system ;
+openal.backend namespaces system generalizations ;
 IN: openal.macosx
 
 LIBRARY: alut
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ FUNCTION: void alutLoadWAVFile ( ALbyte* fileName, ALenum* format, void** data,
 
 M: macosx load-wav-file ( path -- format data size frequency )
     0 <int> f <void*> 0 <int> 0 <int>
-    [ alutLoadWAVFile ] 4keep
+    [ alutLoadWAVFile ] 4 nkeep
     [ [ [ *int ] dip *void* ] dip *int ] dip *int ;
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/macosx/tags.txt b/extra/openal/macosx/tags.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/macosx/tags.txt
rename to extra/openal/macosx/tags.txt
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/openal.factor b/extra/openal/openal.factor
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rename from unmaintained/openal/openal.factor
rename to extra/openal/openal.factor
index 8533308f26..6e9721b0fe 100644
--- a/unmaintained/openal/openal.factor
+++ b/extra/openal/openal.factor
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2007 Chris Double.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
-USING: kernel arrays alien system combinators alien.syntax namespaces
+USING: kernel accessors arrays alien system combinators alien.syntax namespaces
        alien.c-types sequences vocabs.loader shuffle
-       openal.backend specialized-arrays.uint ;
+       openal.backend specialized-arrays.uint alien.libraries generalizations ;
 IN: openal
 
 << "alut" {
@@ -245,13 +245,11 @@ SYMBOL: init
         f init set-global
     ] unless ;
 
-: <uint-array> ( n -- byte-array ) "ALuint" <c-array> ;
-
 : gen-sources ( size -- seq )
-    dup <uint-array> 2dup underlying>> alGenSources swap ;
+    dup <uint-array> [ alGenSources ] keep ;
 
 : gen-buffers ( size -- seq )
-    dup <uint-array> 2dup underlying>> alGenBuffers swap ;
+    dup <uint-array> [ alGenBuffers ] keep ;
 
 : gen-buffer ( -- buffer ) 1 gen-buffers first ;
 
@@ -264,10 +262,10 @@ os macosx? "openal.macosx" "openal.other" ? require
 
 : create-buffer-from-wav ( filename -- buffer )
     gen-buffer dup rot load-wav-file
-    [ alBufferData ] 4keep alutUnloadWAV ;
+    [ alBufferData ] 4 nkeep alutUnloadWAV ;
 
 : queue-buffers ( source buffers -- )
-    [ length ] [ >uint-array underlying>> ] bi alSourceQueueBuffers ;
+    [ length ] [ >uint-array ] bi alSourceQueueBuffers ;
 
 : queue-buffer ( source buffer -- )
     1array queue-buffers ;
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/other/authors.txt b/extra/openal/other/authors.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/other/authors.txt
rename to extra/openal/other/authors.txt
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/other/other.factor b/extra/openal/other/other.factor
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rename from unmaintained/openal/other/other.factor
rename to extra/openal/other/other.factor
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/summary.txt b/extra/openal/summary.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/summary.txt
rename to extra/openal/summary.txt
diff --git a/unmaintained/openal/tags.txt b/extra/openal/tags.txt
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rename from unmaintained/openal/tags.txt
rename to extra/openal/tags.txt