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Retro-style cover artwork for Jason Brooks’ Space Invaders game, originally written using DirectX 7 in 2000 and re-released in 2026.

Space Invaders for Windows Returns

What happens when you find the source code for a DirectX 7 game you wrote 26 years ago and try compiling it on Windows 11? Rather unexpectedly, the bloody thing still works. Space Invaders lives again, now with the entirely unnecessary Who’s Your Daddy Mode.
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UK National Lottery Results Checker splash screen showing Lotto balls, UK map and features including ticket checking, statistics and export options.

Nearly 30 Years Later… My Lottery Checker Lives Again

One thing that genuinely surprised me is just how portable it’s become. It now runs on Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Windows ARM64, under Parallels on Apple Silicon Macs… and even under CrossOver on macOS. When I started writing it, Apple still made beige Power Macs and “ARM” was something you found attached to your shoulder. The thought of running the same executable on an M4 Mac simply wasn’t a thing.