Cruis'n USA: rebuilding the arcade game from its original assembly
How a released 1994 assembly codebase, the wrong version of the arcade ROM, MAME and a source-matching spider became a native SDL port of Cruis'n USA.
Articles
The site has gradually shifted from a chronological blog into a library of writeups: reverse engineering notes, project postmortems, experiments with retro hardware, and product detours.
Dethrace: rebuilding Carmageddon one function at a time
How a forgotten symbol file became a native, verifiable rebuild of Carmageddon—and how AI is helping with the final assembly-level details.
Do NOT run Carmageddon 2 from the server!
During Carmageddon 2 development, there was a problem with people running Carmageddon 2 on "the server".
Reactivating Carmageddon's debug output
And yet...! The executable still contains those messages, so maybe we can re-enable them somehow.
RESTful DOOM
I embedded a RESTful API into the classic 1993 game DOOM, allowing the game to be queried and controlled using HTTP and JSON.
Slack client for Commodore 64
"Team communication for the 21st century" ... now backwards compatible with 1985!
These pixels haven't been seen by anyone for 20 years
What adventures lie beyond the checkpoint?
How to implement smooth full-screen scrolling on c64
Instead I'll just write about how to implement smooth scrolling on it, because who doesn't want that?
Carmageddon 1 debugging symbols dumped
Dumped a 17 year old debugging symbol file for a game called Carmageddon.
WebDebugger for Mac
Debugging HTTP proxy for OSX
OpenNFS1
Open source remake of the original Need for Speed 1 game
SharePod
Popular tool to pull music/videos/photos off your iPod
OpenC1
An open source remake of Carmageddon. Using XNA and Nvidia PhysX.
iPhone Disk Drive
Access files on your iPhone or iPod Touch through Windows Explorer