A frontier model decoded an old multimedia game and put it in a browser in 2 hours

Had a frontier LLM decode an old Director game and port it to run in a web browser in about 2 hours, reusing existing OSS libraries.

2 hourssaved

How it works

A frontier LLM decodes the old Director game
Ports it to run in a web browser in about 2 hours
Reusing existing open-source libraries

Why it’s worth knowing

Reusing existing libraries is the judgement call that made 2 hours possible.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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