That's super cool. Not quite the same, but I created my own version of Remote Buddy, but with only the features I need, plus some extras like low battery alert and fixing a looooong standing bug with Remote Buddy where I'd need to restart there app every other day or so.

It's pure vibes, so buyer beware https://github.com/adriel/siri-remote-control This is "my" first Mac app, before this I'd only built PHP or web based apps. Pretty surprising how quick Claude could make it. I always thought Mac apps were really hard to build.

I see it more like the gold rush. OpenAI etc are selling the pickaxes.

Yes you can get make it big using LLMs, but it's still high risk, like starting any new company. It's lower risk to just sell the tools.

I recently decompiled Oregon Trail II, it's a pretty interesting experience, you get to learn a tonne about the game you used to play, and how it works under the hood. Came across a few bugs and unused assets too, which was cool to see.

I ended up coding coding up a fully interactive version stream on twitch. Unfortunately the Twitch extension I made to make it interactive is still pending review by Twitch, but I can manually add anything keen enough to the allow list. https://www.twitch.tv/medic_911/ (edit, I've switched the stream to use the existing twitch interactive ext, GreenHeat, so you can play the game now, it's just not optimised for this game like my ext is)

I also converted one of the existing decodes of Simtower out there into a native macOS app, which is pretty cool.

I find it (AI) really exciting, but also scary how this will shape the future. People still need to make money somehow to be able to spend it.

I do agree with this, but also, being an entrepreneur is a high risk venture, and most people fail at it. You only hear about the success stories.

A fairly easy method is, when you get a pay-rise, setup an automatic payment that pulls out the extra money you now get, and auto invest it.

Otherwise you end up with what's called lifestyle creep, if you leave it into your bank account you will always find something to spend it on.

It does depend a bit on how much money you were making, but I'd guess it applies to most here.

That's so sad, first they ruin notepad, now Minesweeper too :(

They really hyped it up with all the name drops.

Sweep those mines!

I've done the same with some old games I used to play, SimTower and Oregon Trail II, both fully decompiled and now running natively on modern macOS.

I'm going to try create an interactive twitch stream where viewers can play the game through the stream and other non-player viewers can trigger events in the game via points.

Crazy time we live in.

Edit, you come to really understand the game in the process, and why things happen and how to better play the game. And occasionally come across bugs, dev assets, assets never used, or assets all coded up, but code never triggered.

Amusingly I just saw a "Show HN" for SimTower running online via WASM:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676394

Haha yeah, I saw that post when I looked into reverse engineering SimTower, that guy saved me so much time decompiling. Didn't get so lucky with Oregon Trail II, there are some very old github repo's with attempts, but none got very far.

We're definitely in the age of ports! Interested to see how the OT2 port turns out.

Reverse engineering Redhook's Revenge binary (an old DOS game) before the advent of LLMs cost me way more hours than I'd care to admit back in the day - so I can't wait to put an LLM to work on some more obscure games like Sword Quest.

On a side note I should really give Oregon Trail II a shot. I never got into any of the successors like Yukon Trail, Amazon Trail, etc.

and investing.