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points by havaloc 16 hours ago | 0 comments

Funny how AI has enabled us to long for the days without AI. We didn't know what we had in the 90s/2000s, it was the golden age in PC gaming.

[–] userbinator 1 hour ago

AI has made it much easier to execute on an idea, but someone had to come up with the idea first.

[–] wiseowise 16 hours ago

There was always loyal community around “old” games, this has nothing to do with AI. It’s the modern, shallow, money-first game development approach that pushes people. AI is a godsend that allows to cheaply modify the games.

[–] skeptic_ai 13 hours ago

Until now was impossible to bring a win xp game to browser in a week by an average dev. Show me otherwise.

[–] JDups 9 hours ago

The communities playing old games did not need or want versions playable in the browser, they're already playing the games on emulators, source ports, or with community patches for modern systems.

[–] MayeulC 10 hours ago

Not as easy for graphically demanding games, but web browsers have been able to run a full VM in a browser for years now. Slap the game on it and call it a day: https://retroonline.net/Windows/Pharaoh%20%26%20Cleopatra

Now, please vibecode me a winxp directx driver that serializes calls to its wasm counterpart, to enable graphics acceleration for such VMs. Sounds highly doable: virgl, virtio-gpu and Venus exist. Might be even simpler to do it for Vulkan and port dxvk to XP.

[–] Palomides 12 hours ago

and that's something desperately needed?