Live equityodds as you play
No-Limit Hold’em
No-Limit Texas Hold’em against 27 bots, with live equity, outs, pot odds and hand ranges as you play, and every hand there to replay and study.
The Pit04 tables
Play the house at its own game.
Table games rebuilt as open-source simulations — true odds, basic strategy, and the exact house edge, all out in the open. No money, no sign-up.
Basic strategyplus the hi-lo count
Blackjack Trainer
Basic-strategy coaching and Hi-Lo card counting on rules taken straight from official casino documents.
True oddsthe zero-edge bet
Craps Simulator
A browser craps table for learning the line, the odds bets and where the edge really hides.
Real physicsno rigging required
Roulette Trainer
A real forward-physics wheel, proven fair by simulation — see exactly why you can’t beat it.
The Machines04 cabinets
Where the edge hides in plain sight.
Reels, pins and multipliers. The loudest machines on any floor — and the ones that take the most. Here is exactly how.
Exact oddsevery reel weight
Slots Simulator
Reel strips, virtual-reel weights and the exact-enumeration house edge across eight machine archetypes.
Optimal playranked by expected value
Video Poker Trainer
Optimal play, pay-table literacy and bankroll management — taught one hand at a time.
Ball physicsthe house sets the pins
Pachinko Parlor
Ball-drop physics and payout pockets, with the odds behind the pins laid bare.
The crash curvecash out or burn
Flameout
Watch the multiplier climb, cash out before the crash — then see why the house always wins.
The Workshop04 tools
Tools I build and use.
Software for writing scripts and stories, taking old machines apart, putting photos on the wall, and keeping an eye on the coffee. Free, open source, no sign-ups, and your files stay yours.
Plain-text Fountainor classic enter and tab
Drafter
Write screenplays and stage plays in plain-text Fountain and watch the formatted pages build as you type, or draft a novel in Markdown.
Byte-exact round tripread faithfully
Fugløy
Take TRS-80 Model I and III programs apart: a disassembler whose output rebuilds the original byte for byte, a workbench that explains every line, and an emulator.
Self-hostedyour photos, your server
OpenMantel
A digital picture frame you host yourself: a small computer behind a monitor, and your photos on every screen in the house. No subscription, no one else’s cloud.
Tailscale onlyno public address
aiden-portal
A dashboard for my Fellow Aiden coffee brewer: a live trace of every brew, profiles and schedules, a brew log and a descale tally. It runs on my own machine and is reachable only over Tailscale; the demo runs on invented data.
Interactive Fiction01 suite
Games you play by typing.
In 1979 Infocom wrote its adventures for an imaginary computer, the Z-machine, so one story file could run on every home computer of the day: you type GO NORTH or OPEN MAILBOX, and the game answers in prose. The format outlived the company, and people still write for it. frotz, Inc. is the umbrella for my Z-machine tools, which run in the browser and are open source.
One suitewrite, play, inspect, ship
frotz, Inc.
Instruments for the Z-machine: everything that used to come in the box, and a few things that didn’t. Write, build, play, inspect and ship Infocom-style text adventures, all in the browser.
- frotzsmithsourcecode for frotzsmith on GitHub — opens in a new tabA browser IDE for Inform 6 and ZIL. The real compilers run as WebAssembly and build Z-machine or Glulx story files on your own machine; play them inline and test them with a skein.
- frotzplaysourcecode for frotzplay on GitHub — opens in a new tabA Z-machine player built for screen readers and strict security policies. Your story files are never uploaded. Ships as part of frotzlens.
- frotzlenssourcecode for frotzlens on GitHub — opens in a new tabOpens a story file and shows what is inside: header, object tree, dictionary, grammar, strings and cross-referenced disassembly. Fully symbolic with Inform’s debug output.
Still to come: a debugger, a release packager, a linter and a regression tester.
The Arcade01 game
Games for fun.
No edge here, nothing to beat — just games built for the joy of it. Starting with a slot car track from 1971; more on the way.
Analog throttleno house, just the track
AFX Slot Car Simulator
Photoreal 1970s HO slot cars — squeeze the trigger, brake into the corner, or fly off into the shag carpet.
VogelTronics03 exhibits
VogelTronics: A Fictional History
Elk Grove Village, Illinois, 1961 to 1983 — twenty-three years of chasing American childhood and never quite catching it, then one loud swerve into electronics at the end. Every toy here is rebuilt from the ground up: no trademarks borrowed, nothing lifted. Gridiron plays now; the rest of the shelf is on its way.
Games that think!the whole sad story
VogelTronics: The Whole Story
The magazine-style corporate history — Elk Grove Village, 1961, to the crash of 1983, forever in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Formant synthesisthe voice that shouldn’t exist
Rovacon Voice Bench
The flagship’s voice chip, rebuilt — Votrax-class formant speech synthesis in the browser: type a phrase, hear 1980 arcade speech.
Nine yards of LEDit thinks two plays ahead
Gridiron
The 1977 LED football handheld, rebuilt for solo play — one bright blip against five tacklers, four downs to move the chains, and a kick on fourth. Keyboard-first.