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Show HN: Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port)

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JKCalhoun23시간 전

This is very cool. It is the only port (that I am aware of) that brings over the additional Room Editor app that allowed you to create and edit "house" (game) files.

daviewales13시간 전

Related: Aerofoil is an updated port of Glider Pro: https://github.com/elasota/Aerofoil Additional binaries are available here (Win, Mac, Android): https://galeforcegames.itch.io/aerofoil And a Linux Flatpak version is coming soon... https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/10703 And yes, it includes the Room Editor! (For those who care, it's also human-created from the original source code.)

statico9시간 전

This is awesome. We can now run classic Mac applications as single page apps by emulating the Toolbox instead of the entire OS and emulating 68K & PowerPC with Wasm. I started to do this with https://github.com/jpivarski/executor-mac68k-emulator and Emscripten (with Claude driving) and got SimCity 2000 running as a single-page app with sound. Then I found https://systemless.org/ which is a similar project. Still, super cool.

devindotcom16시간 전

Ah, the muscle memory comes back fast. >The port was directed by a human, implemented by Claude Opus 5.5, and designed by both. This is certainly one area where I find AI tools to be largely beneficial. There are so many pieces of near-forgotten software that are difficult to interface with at all, let alone to decompile, debug and port and so on. I was thinking lately how useful an AI-powered editor for NES- and SNES-era games would be. The existing tile and mapper editors are generally pretty clunky IIRC.

trueno12시간 전

i had to have been like 3 years old when i played this game. didnt even know it had a name. just seeing it visually made me realize i still have memories there, i literally wouldve never thought of it again for the rest of my life if it wasn't for this wow.