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by s-macke 8mo ago
About halfway through my reverse-engineering process, I came across those documents and realized that roughly 50% were missing. I searched pretty much the entire web to see if anyone had stored these files elsewhere, but so far I haven’t ha
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by s-macke 8mo ago
Some early source code snippets of the game have even survived and can still be found on archive.org [0]. By today’s standards, they’re almost unreadable. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20030906124225/http:/&
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by s-macke 8mo ago
Author here. I’m happy to see one of my projects on Hacker News. This has been a fun one. One evening you just try to disassemble it and wonder where the code is. The following months were a truly satisfying experience, reverse-engineering
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2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report(resources.anthropic.com)
1 points by s-macke 8mo ago|0 comments
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by s-macke 8mo ago
I am working on an AI multi-agent system to reverse engineer old C64 games and DOS games automatically.
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by s-macke 8mo ago
There’s a small misunderstanding here. Reverse engineering by annotating a disassembly file is fine. However, the next obvious steps would be to write a sensible, high-level documentation of the internals of the game and then port it to a h
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by s-macke 8mo ago
I’ve performed many experiments using AI to reverse-engineer old games like this one, and it looks like the newest generation of models has no trouble with it. They’re actually awesome. Even with the current models, we might be able to auto
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by s-macke 8mo ago
I’ve also been playing around with reverse engineering, and I’m very impressed. It turns out that Codex with GPT-5.2 is better at reverse engineering than Claude. For example, Codex can completely reverse-engineer this 1,300-line example [0
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by s-macke 8mo ago
Blast from the past. In my mind, the Adventure Game Studio is forever tied to the ancient (German) Maniac Mansion Mania website [0]. Yes, that Maniac Mansion from Lucasfilm Games. To this day, they’re are releasing fun new adventure episode
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by s-macke 8mo ago
> ... emitting a NYC worth of CO2 in a year is dizzying Simplified comparisons like these rarely show the full picture [0]. They focus on electricity use only, not on heating, transport, or meat production, and certainly not on the CO2 e
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by s-macke 8mo ago
Thanks. I have submitted my platformer "Interplanetary Postal Service" [0]. This is a lunar lander type game with real computational fluid dynamics. [0] https://github.com/s-macke/Interplanetary-Postal-Service
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by s-macke 9mo ago
Works again for me
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by s-macke 9mo ago
Yes, it is down for me too. Germany. > API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"req_x
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by s-macke 9mo ago
To compensate for this I have put 100 or more terrible text adventure game runs from AI online [0]. And with this post I even link to them directly for the next web crawler. [0] https://github.com/s-macke/AdventureAI&#x
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AI is just starting to change the legal profession(understandingai.org)
4 points by s-macke 9mo ago|2 comments
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by s-macke 9mo ago
I try myself on multiple reverse engineering projects of old games such as [0]. The goal is to find a pattern in which an AI can reverse engineer at least 99% of the disassembly. [0] https://github.com/s-macke/weltendae
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by s-macke 9mo ago
WebAssembly itself is not that inefficient in storage. It is mostly the usual bloat that comes with binaries. For example, Go binaries have to provide a full runtime, including garbage collection. If size is your top priority, you can produ
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by s-macke 9mo ago
Difficult and it really depends on the complexity. I definitely work in a spec-driven way, with a step-by-step implementation phase. If it goes the wrong way I prefer to rewrite the spec and throw away the code.
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by s-macke 9mo ago
Just some examples I’ve already made public. More complex ones are in the pipeline. With [0], I’m trying to benchmark different coding-agents. With [1], I successfully reverse-engineered an old C64 game using Opus 4.5 only. Yes, feel free t
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by s-macke 9mo ago
Opus 4.5 has become really capable. Not in terms of knowledge. That was already phenomenal. But in its ability to act independently: to make decisions, collaborate with me to solve problems, ask follow-up questions, write plans and actually
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Taking Local AI Development to the Max with AMD Ryzen AI Halo(amd.com)
3 points by s-macke 9mo ago|0 comments
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Abstruse Goose Comic Archive(github.com)
3 points by s-macke 9mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Reverse engineering and porting a C64 game with AI(github.com)
2 points by s-macke 9mo ago|0 comments
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by s-macke 9mo ago
The link didn’t get enough votes a few days ago.
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by s-macke 11mo ago
While the methods are similar in that they both ray-march through the scene to compute per-pixel fluence, the algorithm presented in the blog post scales linearly with the number of light sources, whereas Radiance Cascades can handle an arb
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by s-macke 11mo ago
I stopped reading the article after this sentence. Now I am scanning the comments.
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by s-macke 11mo ago
copy.sh has the advantage of being x86-compatible and can run many different Linux distributions. However, this CPU choice also makes it quite complex and relatively slow (not sure, if this is still correct). My own OpenRISC CPU emulation f
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by s-macke 11mo ago
By a factor of about 170. But this is more of a micro benchmark that gives you a rough idea. It's not a definitive figure.
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by s-macke 11mo ago
This is exactly what [0] does. Try it out. If you know the IP you can even log in to another open browser window via telnet. [0] https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k
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by s-macke 11mo ago
You can write a network device driver, which exports the network packages into JavaScript. The author already wrote a console device. So, not much of a deal. https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm/blob/mast

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