Tagged “3do”

Article · 10 October 2026

Writing 3DO games in 2026: a 1993 console, a 1990s compiler, and a debuggable emulator

How I built a modern dev kit for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer — Norcroft ARM C in Docker, a patched Opera emulator with a GDB server and a JSON control port, and an MCP server — and used it to ship a demo and 21 games.

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Project · 7 October 2026

3do-dev: a modern 3DO dev kit

A modern development kit for the 1993 3DO Interactive Multiplayer: the original-style Norcroft toolchain in Docker, a patched Opera emulator with a GDB server and remote-control API, and MCP tools for Claude Code.

Retro computing