retro

TrueType reconstruction of the 8x16 DOS VGA console font extended to 5,800 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Braille and Nerd Font icons.

React component library applying a neo-brutalist retro design system across buttons, cards, dialogs and form controls.

Bitsy-style browser editor that compiles to real NES ROMs, bridging web authoring and actual console hardware.

Tilemap editor targeting real Game Boy, Game Boy Color, GBA, DS and SNES formats rather than generic engine tilemaps.

Fantasy console with a browser IDE, 16-colour-ish constraints and a scripting language tuned for fast game jams.

React component library reproducing the Windows 95 interface, including window chrome, tree views, dropdowns and system icons.

Curated catalogue of fantasy consoles and computers with links, specs and status for each project.

Fantasy console targeting WebAssembly with a 64KB memory budget, letting you write retro games in Rust, Go, C or Zig.

Browser IDE for CHIP-8 with a high-level language, debugger, sprite editor and one-click sharing of playable carts.

Fantasy computer with built-in code, sprite, map, sound and music editors that exports playable browser cartridges.

CSS component library reproducing the Counter-Strike 1.6 interface: buttons, checkboxes, inputs, dialogs, tooltips and tabs.

Matplotlib extension supplying vaporwave palettes and colormaps for deliberately non-corporate chart aesthetics.

HTML custom element that dithers images at device pixel resolution so results stay crisp on any display and zoom level.

Tweakable CRT shader for a web canvas with scanlines, curvature, bloom and phosphor controls exposed as parameters.

Pure CSS CRT monitor effect adding scanlines, screen curvature, flicker and phosphor glow to any container.

Old School RuneScape's interface traced pixel for pixel into a shadcn registry: 37 components, 13 whole-screen recipes and over 1,100 sprites, frames and textures.

Interactive three.js sculpture of a human body built from ten bare CRT tubes on a concrete wall, each organ looping its own four frames.

Classic DOS demos like Second Reality and Unreal, statically recompiled from recorded x86 execution into C and run natively in the browser.

Photo-based reconstruction of the lettering on classic Commodore 64 keycaps, shipped as desktop fonts, a webfont, editable outlines and a specimen.

CC0 library of copy-paste retro graphics demos, from demoscene plasma and starfields to chrome metaballs, raytracers and globes, in WebGL 1 or 2D canvas.

Pixel-perfect MacPaint recreation in the browser, matching original QuickDraw fonts, shape tools and 1-bit constraints.

Multi-pass CRT reconstruction for images and 3D scenes, with adapters for plain WebGL, React, Three.js, pmndrs postprocessing and R3F.

Conway's Game of Life running from a 512-byte x86 boot sector, using VGA memory as the grid, with heavily commented assembly.

Browser retro biplane stunt game with balloon popping, wind, fuel, CRT scanlines and a full instrument dashboard — keyboard and touch.

shadcn/ui registry that rebuilds the Mac OS X Aqua interface: gel buttons, pinstripes, brushed-metal windows, a working Dock and iPod.

Archive of every solid desktop background colour shipped by classic operating systems: 194 colours across 22 platforms, 1985 to 2024.

Curated list of PICO-8 carts, tools, tutorials and techniques — a deep well of constraint-driven design ideas.

Sound effect generator extending sfxr with more waveforms, mixing, mutation and a footstep generator; exports WAV.

Personal portfolio built as a working Windows XP desktop with draggable windows, a start menu and clickable applications.