Author name: Jan Rochat

February 2025, after resurrecting the Commodore 64 version of ChipWits, I turned my attention to the game’s original platform: the 1984 Macintosh 128K. ChipWits debuted on the Mac in 1984, sporting a black-and-white GUI and 400 KB disks, and was later ported to colorful 8-bit systems in 1985. Rebuilding the Mac version presented a whole new set of challenges – from resource forks and archaic disk formats to […]

In September 2023, the ChipWits team discovered a stack of Commodore 64 disks containing the original FORTH source code for ChipWits, a game first released on the C64 in 1985. In their ChipWits Blog Post, you can read more about this discovery. About a year later, I came across a discussion on Slashdot, which inspired