Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware

2 comments

• KellyCriterion 21 hours ago
  Are todays LLM not capable of translating that stuff into modern JS&Co?
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  • schrijver 20 hours ago
    If the LLM can’t run the original code, it can’t compare to verify the translation is accurate
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    • londons_explore 9 hours ago
      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.
    • moritzwarhier 19 hours ago
      When the runtime is completely different, I'd also argue it's emulation more than translation? Anyway. Lost in translation I guess.
• shellwizard 18 hours ago
  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