Dev Essays

The essays that go deep on code — source listings, reverse engineering, and the decisions behind things I built. A subset of the essays, not a separate feed: every one of these also appears in the main run.

The Game Remembered What I Forgot

September 30, 2026 · by Michael Morrison Dev

The source code to a game I wrote in 1993 was gone, so I rebuilt it from the shipped binary, deriving every rule by inference. Days after I finished, a floppy gave the source back — and graded the reconstruction. On what you learn by having to prove a thing instead of read it.

These also sit in the main run, in date order with everything else.