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Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware

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19 pointsby speckx5 comments

KellyCriterion[4 comments hidden]
Are todays LLM not capable of translating that stuff into modern JS&Co?
schrijver[3 comments hidden]
If the LLM can’t run the original code, it can’t compare to verify the translation is accurate
moritzwarhier[hidden]
When the runtime is completely different, I'd also argue it's emulation more than translation? Anyway. Lost in translation I guess.
londons_explore[hidden]
LLMs are surprising good at looking at plain old hex of a binary and rewriting it as source code that functions similarly.

I'm sure for these older games they'd succeed most of the time.

shellwizard[hidden]
The scummvm project has been working on porting most of the director games onto it. You can track its current status here:

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Director/Games?hl=es-ES