Posts tagged: classic-mac
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All tagsMore 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.
What an architecture-review skill found in PeerTalk and BomberTalk
I ran Matt Pocock's improve-codebase-architecture skill over PeerTalk and BomberTalk. This post is about the changes I made based on its findings.
Optimising Quake II on seven old Macs
I forked yquake2 5.11 and used Claude Code to get a build tuned for old PowerPC and Intel Macs, the sister project to the QuakeSpasm one.
Optimising Quake on seven old Macs
I forked QuakeSpasm to see if I could use Claude Code to get a build tuned for old PowerPC and Intel Macs.
BomberTalk Alpha
I played a networked Bomberman game across a Mac SE, a Performa 6200, and a Performa 6400. Three machines spanning 1987 to 1995, all talking to each other over TCP and UDP.
Building an Evaluation Harness with Claude Code
I built an evaluation harness to measure the quality of LLM-generated pixel art sprites. Five rounds of calibration, a stubborn intent-vs-reality gap, and some useful C tools for getting assets onto classic Macs.
I Ditched My Planning System for Fully Automated GitHub Spec Kit
I built 14 custom skills, 4 hooks, and 1.2 MB of phase plans for PeerTalk. Eight phases done, real hardware tested, proper results. Then I started again from scratch with Spec Kit across three repos. Automated builds, hardware testing on Classic Macs, and a cross-platform chat app built in hours.
Automating Performance Tests on a Performa 6200
How MCP servers and Claude Code skills turned manual hardware testing into an automated workflow. From FileZilla hell to one-command benchmarks on a 30-year-old Mac.
Retro Mac Power Supplies and PS3 Maintenance
Two hardware projects: fixing dead power supplies in my Macintosh Performa 630 and 6200 with a cheap SFX PSU mod, and a PS3 thermal paste replacement.
Project-Specific Claude Code Customisations
Building custom MCP servers, skills, hooks, and agents for Claude Code. A workshop with Anthropic led me to create a full development toolkit for the PeerTalk SDK project.