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IronField, a 90s-style RTS game for Windows 95
IronField is a C++ DirectDraw real-time strategy game aimed at real 90s hardware, with Claude helping restructure the code and speed it up.
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IronField is a simple 90s-style real-time strategy game written in C++ with DirectDraw, aimed at running on actual 90s hardware under Windows 95. The poster built it to benchmark old CPUs, though they say it is fun to play too.
Claude Code helped restructure the code so it could be unit tested, worked on the path-finding logic, and made speed fixes for older 486 and Pentium machines. Claude Design helped create some of the units. A web version is available to test.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Clade help me build a 90s style RTS gameReddit poster: mwdmeyerPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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- The project: starrts.vogonswiki.com
Linked in the post.