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Matthew Deaves
Matthew Deaves
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Hello, I'm Matthew

My background is in software engineering, which I still pursue as a hobby. I work at Version 1. This site is where I share personal projects and occasional thoughts on what I'm working on.

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Case Study - Retro Gaming 12 August 2026
The Half-Life app icon, Gordon Freeman in his HEV suit

Half-Life on old Macs

Half-Life 1 as one universal app for PowerPC, Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, built on the open-source Xash3D FWGS engine, with 25 mods installed by a second app.

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Classic Mac 26 July 2026

More Markdown in ArtfulType

My fork of Action Retro's ArtfulType, a Markdown editor for 68k Macs. More Markdown in the styled view, printing, Find & Replace, and bootable disk images built on Linux.

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Case Study - Retro Gaming 25 July 2026

KeeperFX on Apple Silicon

KeeperFX, the open-source Dungeon Keeper remake, building natively on Apple Silicon as an arm64 binary with the crashes fixed and saves out of the app folder.

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