Posts tagged: retro-computing

# retro-computing

10 posts

Case Study - Developer Tooling 5 July 2026

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.

Hardware - Retro Gaming 5 June 2026

A Quake tactical computer for the Apple Watch

Quake II's help computer, rebuilt as an iPhone and Apple Watch app. An old Mac running Quake streams its live game state to your phone and wrist (health, ammo, objectives, damage buzzes and in-game sounds) and records the match as a workout.

Case Study - Software Optimisation 24 May 2026

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.

Case Study - Software Optimisation 9 May 2026

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.

Classic Mac 6 April 2026

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.

Case Study - AI Development 15 March 2026

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.

Case Study - Developer Tooling 8 March 2026

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.

Case Study - Developer Tooling 22 February 2026