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, and putting photos on the wall. 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.
Compiles in-browserno backend, works offline
Frotzsmith
An interactive fiction IDE in the browser: write Inform 6 or ZIL, compile to the Z-machine on your own machine, and play it inline.
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.
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.