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Blog of independent game and app developer Matt Sephton. Featuring vintage Macintosh, game development, digital artwork, Japanese esoterica, video game reviews, hacks and tips, and much more.

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2026 22

  1. Tmux Session Extension for Nova editor
  2. Transcompilation Express
  3. Amiga Guide support for macOS
  4. 2UP my “Twin Finder” dual pane file manager
  5. Let’s all meet up in the Y2K
  6. Seasons (playlist)
  7. Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)
  8. BELTRUNNER: game design postmortem
  9. Hi, Jinks!
  10. I’m working on a new way to make games
  11. Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji
  12. Transparent compression with Folder Actions in macOS
  13. New (Old) 3D Golf: porting PC-9801 & Virtual Boy to Mega Drive
  14. Passing Cloudflare Turnstile using two fingers
  15. Offset (DJ mix)
  16. Today I shipped 20 apps and a screensaver
  17. TV’s TV (1987) & TV Games Encyclopedia (1988)
  18. Fresh Files Extension for Nova editor
  19. The Majesty of Mount Fuji
  20. Serenity: zen gliding to the sound of procedurally generated music
  21. Controlling local web servers using xbar
  22. WebGL CRT Shader

2025 45

  1. My most popular posts of 2025
  2. Remove Comments Extension for Nova editor
  3. Music recommendations (2025)
  4. Post-Playdate: One Year Later
  5. Mameyudoufu (DJ mix)
  6. How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet
  7. Three.js Completions Extension for Nova editor
  8. Updates to Extensions for Nova editor
  9. Dottie: a native macOS pixel art editor (WIP)
  10. Wormhole for Perplexity Comet
  11. DÉ DÉ DISCO (DJ mix)
  12. iOS Low Data Mode reveals true app update sizes
  13. Donating my Playdate earnings to The Cybersmile Foundation
  14. Ambientalmente (DJ mix)
  15. Moai (DJ mix)
  16. Automatic build number incrementing in Xcode
  17. Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)
  18. If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes (DJ mix)
  19. Media Darling: T-shirt design
  20. Monokai Pro Vibrant theme for Nova editor
  21. Abandoned project: Band-kun/Beatnik for Playdate
  22. Abandoned project: multi-site shopping app
  23. Atari/Jeff Minter game jam results, Llamasoft, and ST Format
  24. Abandoned project: Soccer for Playdate
  25. Abandoned project: firework builder puzzle game
  26. Talking about Moai in Games on Tokyo Game Life podcast
  27. When Playdate Stopped Being Fun
  28. Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation
  29. Shark Turtle: a modern version of SameGame/MaciGame
  30. Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons (1994)
  31. Macintosh Magazine Media: 1 million files
  32. The menu bar items I use on macOS
  33. Digging up the past with DiscMaster
  34. Enhanced sfxr for Love2D
  35. Old Codes, New Releases for Playdate
  36. The making of MaBoShi
  37. Review: The Italian Job (2001)
  38. Making games on iPhone/iPad using Lua & Love2D
  39. Automating the cleaning of macOS-specific files on Eject
  40. Collins Gem Basic Facts: Computers (1991)
  41. TETRIS: 1984 is the date of conception (1989)
  42. Some new old posts you might find interesting
  43. Slugs on a Cube: interactive animation
  44. Macintosh Magazine Media: search engine update
  45. DREAM RIDE for Sega Dreamcast (and emulators)

2024 34

  1. My most popular posts of 2024
  2. Music recommendations (2024)
  3. Remix: Hitomitoi - LIKE A FIRST KISS feat. Wild Nothing
  4. New 3D Golf Simulation (video game series)
  5. Word Counter extension for Nova editor
  6. Macro extension for Nova editor
  7. Extensions for Nova editor
  8. Automating the most annoying aspects of blogging
  9. Bender 2: Bend Harder for Playdate
  10. A haze of inspiration
  11. Moai-chan-dise
  12. This behavior is by design
  13. Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app
  14. TETRIS for Sharp Electronic Notebook (1989)
  15. Search Moby Games using Alfred app
  16. PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data & accounts
  17. Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS
  18. Shibuya Pixel Art Contest 2024
  19. TETRIS: Heavenly Scrolls (1989)
  20. Pitching a game based on the CICLOPE 2016 Opening Film
  21. FRP bypass and unlock on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2
  22. Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)
  23. Mouse Support for Playdate
  24. Emoji history: the missing years
  25. Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app
  26. Per-game skins in the Delta classic video game emulator for iOS
  27. Adding the “Move to Trash” function to System 7.1
  28. Remote monitoring a web server job queue
  29. A year in the life of a Playdate game developer
  30. The Blue Nile “A Walk Across The Rooftops” (5.1)
  31. Barbara Nessim at The Ginza Art Space (1986)
  32. Interview: Kenta Cho (Japanese indie game developer)
  33. Running modern macOS on non-retina displays
  34. JINZO Paint: vintage mobile drawing app

2023 42

  1. Japanese music recommendations (2023)
  2. My most popular posts of 2023
  3. Using game controllers and keyboards for custom shortcuts
  4. See the sky: Thoru Yamamoto’s Christmas story, for Playdate
  5. Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games
  6. Easter egg emoji: converting pixels into particles
  7. YOYOZO (or, how I made a Playdate game in 39KB)
  8. Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)
  9. Japanese language support on Classic Macintosh
  10. List of vintage Japanese pixel/dot art software
  11. Kenichi Shinohara’s Pixel Art Ukiyo-e (1987)
  12. OpenSCAD to Sprite Sheet workflow
  13. Casio CALEID XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)
  14. Tom Moulton, Father of the Disco Mix (1976)
  15. Fake Steve Jobs & Letters from BILL G
  16. Going back to the old (pre-X) Twitter iOS app
  17. Automatically classifying the content of sound files using ML
  18. Extracting sounds from Macromedia Director files
  19. “The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
  20. The first colour Playdate game?
  21. Beyerdynamic Blue Byrd (1st generation) battery replacement
  22. Ball und Panzer Golf: making a Playdate game in a week
  23. Preserving the Marguerite Hanafuda browser game
  24. Usajong gaiden ore ga kirifuda! (Game Soundtrack Rip)
  25. Five interesting facts about the design of the original PlayStation
  26. Review: GTi Club Supermini Festa!
  27. Ordering photocopies from Japan’s National Library
  28. IntelligentPad: component-based drag-and-drop software creator
  29. Japanese music recommendations
  30. F-MIN INFINITY an obscure Japanese sprite-scaler racing game
  31. 一筆 / Hitofude / Ippitsu Japanese puzzle game
  32. Piskel for Playdate
  33. MaciGame user created graphics
  34. Sparrow Solitaire Tile Workshop
  35. Resurrecting an ASMedia USB hard drive enclosure
  36. Sparrow Solitaire for Playdate
  37. Where can I see Hokusai’s Great Wave today?
  38. Working around a breaking change in WebKit CSS
  39. Pairing a Wii remote on macOS
  40. Reviewing the iPhone Xs in 2023
  41. Working around the YouTube Channel RSS limit
  42. Turning a Twitter Thread into a Blog Post

2022 19

  1. My most popular posts of 2022
  2. Gaming Advent Calendar
  3. Updating the Becker Cascade navigation filesystem
  4. Open Studios: Christmas 2022
  5. The biggest crime in pop music?
  6. Fixing bugs using Bird on Palm OS
  7. Playing Hanafuda on Palm OS in a web browser
  8. Sparrow Solitaire for Playdate (Early Access)
  9. Circular for Playdate
  10. One-click restore most recent backup of a file from Time Machine
  11. Wire Hang Redux for 64-bit macOS
  12. Accessing Yahoo! Japan from Europe
  13. Working with classic Macintosh text encodings in the age of Unicode
  14. Daily Driver: Club GTi
  15. BOSS controller shell for Nintendo Wii
  16. Using RSS to create saved searches for any website
  17. Using a proxy to speed up access to specific websites
  18. Displaying Full Referrer URL in Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
  19. Script to quickly and automatically remux videos on Synology NAS

2021 59

  1. My most popular posts of 2021
  2. Tomoya Ikeda - Macintosh Artist
  3. Japanese text support on English Palm OS devices
  4. AsistantPickle desktop toy for Macintosh
  5. Roly-Polys World Tour (Demo)
  6. Mouse-controlled Super Mario Kart clone for classic Macintosh
  7. HyperCard Hanafuda
  8. I’m preserving vintage Macintosh magazine media
  9. T&E SOFT 3D Golf Simulation Series Dokuhon (1993/04/30)
  10. FAQ: Pebble Beach no Hatou
  11. Japanese stop-motion anime: Pui Pui Molcar
  12. Ace Mega Blaster controller for Sega Mega Drive
  13. Playing old 32-bit iOS games in 2021
  14. Macintosh Story: Sweet or Sour Apple?
  15. A movie made using MSX2 computers: The Flying Luna Clipper
  16. Aquaplus P/ECE: Game Reviews Vol. 2
  17. Daily Driver: Teaser Artwork
  18. Aquaplus P/ECE (vs Panic Playdate)
  19. Daily Driver: How big is a sprite sheet?
  20. Playdate 1-bit illustration postmortem
  21. The catch with iTunes Match and Apple Music
  22. Kururin Paradise: Translation Guide, Save & Credits
  23. FAQ: Kururin Paradise
  24. Daily Driver: To GIF and Back
  25. Daily Driver: Teaser Trailer
  26. Daily Driver: Channelling RGB into 1-bit
  27. Daily Driver: Pseudo-HDR
  28. Daily Driver: Makefile
  29. Daily Driver: Pre-rendering Ranger
  30. Pixel-Perfect retro gaming on LCD 480p EDTVs
  31. FAQ: Kururin Squash!
  32. About the interoperability of System 7 and iOS
  33. My System 7 software choices
  34. Modern replacements for old Wacom tablet pens
  35. Changing the text size of a list using Resorcerer
  36. Mixing External Tools across Deneba software
  37. Macintosh drawing software compared
  38. Level viewer for Pang (Nintendo DS)
  39. Building BasiliskII for iOS
  40. Interest-specific Search Engines
  41. Automating interactions using Apple Events
  42. Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh
  43. History of DenebaCAD
  44. Phosphor Essence
  45. UltraPaint Manual
  46. Changing the size of toolbar items using ResEdit
  47. Asanegami (Morning Hair)
  48. Kamisuki (Woman Combing her Hair)
  49. 1-bit Woodblocks
  50. Playing Old Llamasoft iPhone & iPad games
  51. Samurai Mech
  52. Macintosh Classic logic board recap
  53. Review: A Little Bit of... Nintendo Touch Golf
  54. Dither Studio update
  55. Nintendo’s first US trademark
  56. Daily Driver: Happy New Year!
  57. Famicom Mahjong/Hanafuda controller USB keyboard mod
  58. Extracting images from Band-kun
  59. Top 10 Games Played in 2020

2020 44

  1. SkateBoarder Magazine
  2. EPOCH Instruction Manuals
  3. Band-kun バンドくん musician simulator (1990, KOEI)
  4. デイリードライバー
  5. Dreamcast GDEMU installation
  6. PC Engine Fanatics, Console Ma’zine, Electric Brain & Games Amusement Pleasure
  7. My “Bubble Era” T-shirt Store
  8. Atari ST: Music Software Manuals
  9. Honda ICVS Concept (1994–2008)
  10. The BeOS Bible
  11. Daily Driver: Automation Improvements
  12. Daily Driver: Automation
  13. Daily Driver: Weight Transfer
  14. Found whilst backing up an old PC
  15. Daily Driver: Social Update
  16. Daily Driver: Cannonball Run
  17. Daily Driver: One Shade of Grey?
  18. Daily Driver: Eight-Six
  19. Daily Driver: Playable Demo
  20. Daily Driver: Post-processing workflow
  21. Daily Driver: Retrobatch workflow
  22. Daily Driver: OpenSCAD workflow
  23. Daily Driver: Shine Get!
  24. Daily Driver: Instant Replay
  25. Daily Driver: High Frame Rates are Best Frame Rates
  26. Daily Driver: Showreel
  27. Daily Driver: Chequered Flag
  28. Daily Driver: Influences
  29. Daily Driver: Off Road
  30. Daily Driver: Gameplay
  31. Daily Driver: Obstacles
  32. Daily Driver: from 3D to 2D
  33. Daily Driver: Physics
  34. Shinji and Good Friends: Second Hanafuda Impact
  35. Daily Driver: Racer
  36. Daily Driver: The Beginning
  37. Credits: MaBoShi (WiiWare)
  38. FAQ: Junclassic C.C. & Rope Club
  39. Japanese Windows 98 SE (VMWare)
  40. FAQ: Maboshi’s Arcade
  41. POPEYE Big 100th issue (1981-04-10)
  42. Searching for: The Claque Beignet
  43. Music: T&E SOFT “New 3D Golf Simulation” games
  44. Iwata Asks Downloader

2019 25

  1. FAQ: Soreyuke!! Hanafuda Doujou
  2. FAQ: Hanafuda
  3. FAQ: Hanafuda Shiyouyo
  4. FAQ: Hana to Ryuu
  5. FAQ: Bomberman Blast
  6. Hanafuda by ZAT SOFT
  7. “Game Machine” magazine archive
  8. List of video games featuring Moai
  9. FAQ: Suujin Taisen
  10. Verbum “The Journal of Personal Computer-Aesthetics”
  11. FAQ: Youkai Hana Asobi
  12. Replacing bitmap graphics in a PlayStation game
  13. Redumping Discs
  14. FAQ: Devil’s Course
  15. What a FAQ up!
  16. FAQ: Pebble Beach Golf Links
  17. FAQ: The Golf
  18. FAQ: Pang: Magical Michael
  19. FAQ: New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki
  20. FAQ: Harukanaru Augusta
  21. FAQ: Cross Romance: Koi to Mahjong to Hanafuda to
  22. Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001)
  23. Recovered: Forgotten SEGA Exclusives on Palm OS
  24. Hanafuda Discord
  25. Door Door redrawn

2018 2

  1. File hash calculator app for macOS
  2. Sony Reader “Exceptional internal memory state: formatting” workaround

2017 6

  1. Better custom font sizes on Sony Reader devices
  2. Review: Disc
  3. Feeling for the headphone socket
  4. Koi-Koi by KIN SOFT for MSX (1994)
  5. Why is the iOS PayPal app so big?
  6. How to push an update to the App Store without building a new binary

2016 15

  1. Look Up
  2. Adding Markdown Support to Safari
  3. Apple Event: September 2016
  4. Game Archaeology: No Man’s Sky
  5. The Great Photos Heist
  6. A Brief History of TV Guides
  7. How to prevent an individual iOS app from updating, forever
  8. Emoji Dictionary 🤓 📖
  9. Game Archaeology: Rocket League
  10. Post-processing Animated GIFs
  11. WWDC 2016: Platforms State of the Union
  12. WWDC 2016: thoughts on the keynote
  13. Game Critique: Frantic Architect
  14. Game Critique: Hill Racer 2
  15. Game Analysis: Boom Dots

2015 2

  1. FAQ: The Hanafuda: Jarin-Ko Chie
  2. Boom Matt

2014 2

  1. Review: Fly Guy
  2. Polarium Advance: Daily Puzzle Challenge

2013 1

  1. Review: MaBoShi

2012 2

  1. Review: Chip’s Challenge
  2. iStock: Download large comp

2011 7

  1. Music from the 3DS game Pullblox/Pushmo/Hiku-Osu
  2. Wire Hang Redux: update
  3. Flicky (1984)
  4. Review: Wizkid
  5. Review: Pilotwings
  6. Review: Enthusia Professional Racing
  7. Review: Split/Second Velocity

2010 26

  1. Review: The Wind Waker
  2. Review: Bubble Bobble
  3. Review: GoldenEye 007
  4. Review: Tempest 2000
  5. Review: Bishi Bashi Special
  6. Review: DS Spirits Hanafuda
  7. Review: ChuChu Rocket!
  8. Review: Joust
  9. Review: Speed Freaks
  10. Review: Orbital
  11. Review: Pushover
  12. Review: Tomba!
  13. Review: Sensible Soccer
  14. Review: Excite Truck
  15. Review: Binary Land
  16. Review: Gunpey
  17. Review: Tetris Attack
  18. Review: Sheep, Dog ‘n’ Wolf
  19. Review: RalliSport Challenge 2
  20. Review: Meteos
  21. Review: Flicky
  22. Review: Vijay Singh 3D
  23. Review: Kuru Kuru Kururin
  24. Review: Pang
  25. Review: Guru Logi Champ
  26. Review: Vanishing Point

2009 5

  1. Hacking the Becker Cascade navigation CF card
  2. Services for Mac OS X
  3. PNGenie image optimiser
  4. Today screensaver
  5. FAQ: 1500DS Spirits Vol. 5: Hanafuda

2008 2

  1. Radio Paradise on Chumby
  2. WWDC 2008 Keynote on Nintendo Wii

2005 4

  1. (iPhoto) Exif Cleaner
  2. Upcoming badge
  3. Katamari Damacy iPod Color
  4. Ceefax Viewer

2004 1

  1. Wire Hang Redux

2003 3

  1. JUS4QIX: the story of a classic arcade video game
  2. Early morning disco
  3. Circuit Heat

2002 4

  1. Terra Firma
  2. Sensible Soccer T-shirt
  3. Yaking
  4. Web Design Index 2

2001 1

  1. Bendertron

2000 1

  1. Simple Soccer

1998 7

  1. My old Atari ST software
  2. Quick Paths
  3. My old Windows software
  4. Fuji Bar!
  5. SaveAble!
  6. Wobble!
  7. WINotes

1997 4

  1. Stars screensaver
  2. ST Icons
  3. Cease & Desist: The Designers Republic
  4. FAQ: Micro Machines V3

1996 11

  1. Day
  2. FAQ: Wipeout XL/2097
  3. Ghost
  4. Messages
  5. MsgBoxer
  6. FAQ: Hermie Hopperhead - Scrap Panic
  7. FAQ: Choro Q Racing
  8. FAQ: Motor Toon Grand Prix
  9. Light screensaver
  10. My first website
  11. My first post to USENET

1995 1

  1. Tektonix Menu 2

1994 3

  1. Paint atari st
  2. Review atari st
  3. Chaos Calc 2