Years and years ago, my first computer was an ancient computer – a proper Macintosh. It was dated at the time, and it came with this game (or maybe a demo of it).
The game was never ported to Windows and only lived on in my memories. More recently, I found an abandonware website with a Macintosh emulator that let me play it in my browser, which was very nice – but the experience was still somewhat suboptimal. There was a floppy image available but I discovered that setting up a Macintosh emulator wasn’t the one-click experience I was hoping for, so reliving Claris Works wasn’t on the cards.
Today, I was realising that I wasn’t being somewhat unproductive, and as always, I figure being productive at something is better than being productive at nothing. So I gave Claude Code the floppy binaries, offered to install any software it wanted, and suggested it rework the game in React so we can play it on web.
It asked for various reverse engineering tools including one called Ghidra, an NSA developed tool, and ultimately, with a good deal of guidance from me, came up with something that captures lots of the things about the game I loved.
None of this should surprise anyone at this point, except how low effort and accessible it is.
I have no knowledge of reverse engineering or m68k assembly
I’ve vaguely renamed it, to avoid predictable trademark issues.
https://adequate-blocks.tdobson.net/
