Recreating a 1980s Retro Game with Claude: Simon Willison's "Mad House"
Simon Willison's Weblog·9d ago·New Tool
Simon Willison leveraged Claude to convert a 1983 BASIC game called "Mad House" from a free Usborne PDF into a modern web app. By prompting Claude to generate a mobile-friendly, retro-styled vanilla JavaScript Artifact, he successfully revived the classic Commodore 64-era game with a green-on-black terminal aesthetic, showcasing LLMs' utility in software preservation and rapid prototyping.
