Nobody Could Solve This Mystery for Decades. Then AI Did It in Minutes.

Masquerade is a 1983 game by Dale Johnson, published by Phoenix Software. I reversed-engineered and ported to it JavaScript with the help of Claude. A journey in experimenting with Claude for reverse-engineering purposes, with lessons that could be useful way beyond that activity.

Way before Lara Croft, back in the 1980's and early 1990's, Rick Dangerous was the Indiana Jones of computer games, running away from rolling rocks, avoiding traps, from South America to a futuristic missile base via Egypt and the Schwarzendumpf castle.