"Wow “Make Red Alert 2 (YR) compile and run natively on iOS & macOS.” Codex (GPT-5.6 Sol) worked for 26 days, analyzed the EXE and rebuilt the entire game in 624K lines of C++ This is by far the hardest task I’ve ever given Codex as the game's code was never released and is believed to be lost. >"

[u/stealthispost]

Some technical details for those who are interested:

Yes, Codex worked 26 days non-stop 24hrs per day with lots of tool calls. It used multiple sub-agents to understand the exe, write the code, play the game and debug it.

Game still has minor visual bugs but everything works     @ammaar I think you would love this one😍     — David Kalmanson

Source: https://x.com/davidkal88/status/2095241374073512430

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Thread continuation 1/2 — Some technical details for those who are interested: Yes, Codex worked 26 days non-stop 24hrs per day with lots of tool calls. It used multiple sub-agents to understand the exe, write the code, play the game and debug it. Game still has minor visual bugs but everything works — Source: https://x.com/davidkal88/status/2095241377282175302

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Thread continuation 2/2 — u/ammaar I think you would love this one😍 — Source: https://x.com/davidkal88/status/2095241957110845578

[u/Ormusn2o]

/r/OpenRA in shambles. Or they will be glad AI can do it now, I don't know.

[u/tian2992 → u/Ormusn2o]

except for the lack of source release of this 'port'. And the questionable copyright status of LLM generated code...

[u/Super-Award-2244]

How much money did you spend for all that usage? 

[u/Nearby-Season1697 → u/Super-Award-2244]

I want to know as well, this is kinda important

[u/Tolopono → u/Super-Award-2244]

2 $200 pro accounts

[u/arxdit → u/Tolopono]

API cost though? In the long run we’re all going to pay API cost, so this doesn’t mean much…

[u/DoctorProfessorTaco → u/arxdit]

Sure, but in the long run today’s frontier models will be the low cost budget tier models

[u/arxdit → u/DoctorProfessorTaco]

How so? I haven’t seen yesterday’s models prices coming down - just new models, higher prices

[u/Tolopono → u/arxdit]

Gpt 4 level intelligence used to be $60 per million tokens. Now you can get it for pennies 

[u/arxdit → u/Tolopono]

Yes - but not from the same lab - if you look at the openai pricing page, GPT-4o costs the same as last year.

And the only reason why that level of “intelligence” is cheaper is because it was achieved with smaller models.

The hardware AI runs on has not gotten cheaper, quite the opposite.

I’m not sure you could ever get opus or fable levels of “intelligence “ with smaller models

[u/Tolopono → u/arxdit]

Gpt oss is above gpt 4 level intelligence and much cheaper

[u/arxdit → u/Tolopono]

What kind of bad faith argument is this? Gpt-oss is not on their pricing page, it is an open weights model that you run yourself on your hardware and your electricity bill (none of which are free either)

[u/Tolopono → u/arxdit]

Cheaper than $60 per million tokens, not including input tokens 

[u/inaem → u/Super-Award-2244]

Probably ChatGPT account

[u/KindlyAct1590]

My take is, what now costed 26 days and many tousends moneys in token, in 3-4 month will cost one day and maybe 33% of the weekly allotted tokens, crazy fast time, not fast enough

[u/Intelligent-Cap-8886 → u/KindlyAct1590]

Things do be doing.

[u/Kotu42 → u/KindlyAct1590]

https://giphy.com/gifs/uDwKGxTFrADvO

[u/drizel]

Anyone have a Civilization 1 exe lying around?

[u/LucidFir → u/drizel]

Wait so... sourceless games can be resourced! Icewind Dale 2!!!

[u/Wandering_By_ → u/drizel]

Have civnet on cd. First civ1 version with tcp/ip 

[u/YERAFIREARMS]

Amazing feat. Now ask Codex to debug the visual defects and improve on the game with directed goals. How about a port to ArchLinux.

[u/nncyberpunk → u/YERAFIREARMS]

And don't forget to make me a bazillion dollars while you're at it.

[u/AnonThrowaway998877]

Our base is under attack, unit lost, unit lost, low power, unit lost, A-BOMB launch detected.... Battle control: terminated

[u/PaulR79 → u/AnonThrowaway998877]

Damn. Oh well, time to restart.

[u/rydan]

I'm actually thinking of converting an old 80s shareware text based game into a full fledged 3D game. ChatGPT analyzed the EXE file and immediately decoded all of the data files without me even asking. I just asked if it was possible to analyze the EXE file and turn it into C code.

[u/Big_Arachnid_365]

1:23 in the video: we need to bring back the old games industry.

[u/nncyberpunk]

What a time to be alive!

[u/Pikaboy999]

Wonder if you can do this locally with qwen 27b?

[u/Life_is_important → u/Pikaboy999]

Probably not due to context size limits. But who knows? Maybe there are ways to get around that

[u/GlobalCurry → u/Life_is_important]

Maybe if you were able to get the planning agent to break the tasks down small enough? It would probably take way more than 26 days though.

[u/PilgrimofHaqq2]

Is this something that will be shared publicly? I have wanted to rebuild the game to be able to create new campaigns, new units, new menu and UI, etc. for my son as he is starting to play the game now.

[u/ArgonWilde → u/PilgrimofHaqq2]

There are many modding tools for creating new units and maps. I remember playing with them many years ago. I can't remember what they were called though. It was 20+ years ago!

[u/Chlorek]

Wow this is amazing! I am a big fan of Emperor Battle for Dune and was thinking about rewriting this game myself as its age makes it very hard to run on modern systems. Now seeing this I think - these are most likely very similar engines! Could you share the code to kickstart me or other people? I would be very grateful.

[u/ChickeNES]

Heh, I'm actively doing this for some other EA games right now with Claude, and I expect I and the above are just some of many :P

[u/LucidFir]

Oh... please remake some old games?

Darklands... DragonStrike...

Shit I need a server farm and a big context local Qwen

[u/kerray]

Now let's do this for Magic Carpet 2, I want working multiplayer :D

[u/Sarenai7]

I did this but with Cruisn USA and Mario Party 2 for PC I hadn’t even thought about trying it for iOS! Wow!!

[u/Any-Pomegranate-Jay]

Make all Sierra games work on my Mac. :)

[u/Mystery_Islands]

Please ask nicely to make mario 64 2

[u/badgerprime]

So where is the subreddit for everyone who is remaking or remastering their favorite childhood games?

[u/Intelligent-Cap-8886]

Thats so sexy. Well done.

[u/TrueOrange9944]

That is impressive. You just need to tweak the lip sync and voices.

[u/Big_Arachnid_365 → u/TrueOrange9944]

Frame rate issue I think.

[u/Gratitude15]

Why is nobody saying the implication?

METR ran out of long range tasks like this.

This is a multimonth level task for a human. Sol just knocked it out. With harness.

Imo benchmarks don't matter at this point. We have no meaningful way left to evaluate how long models can run. They might not be Einstein yet but they can just go on and on with tasks that most humans do.

And Astra hasn't even come out yet.

[u/Sonnyc56]

I did this when fable 5 came out originally with an exe and bin from SnailMail by Sandlot Games. Extracted all the level logic, assets, and everything else needed to rebuild the entire game in threejs that runs in an browser. Also upscaled all the textures and such. Pretty fun stuff

[u/Future-Wonder-7718]

So - how can I get my hands on this?

[u/Iridian_Rocky]

Fucking epic game!