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Midwinter's 1989 DOS executable decoded for a remaster
Claude decoded the original DOS executable of Midwinter overnight, mapping 602 functions, to support a remaster of the 1989 game.
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- Reddit poster PlayfulInterview984 Source ↗
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The maker has spent about six months remastering Mike Singleton's 1989 game Midwinter, first in Rust and Bevy and then in Unreal Engine 5 with Claude driving the build through MCP. They asked Fable 5 to look at the original DOS executable.
Overnight it mapped and labelled 602 functions covering terrain generation, vehicle physics, enemy AI, win and lose conditions, graphics formats and audio. Its Python replica of the terrain generator matches the original's output bit for bit. As a test it also replicated a simpler 1989 DOS game, Star Command, from the raw disk files in about an hour. The decode ran as parallel agents working through the disassembly with an evidence ledger.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Fable 5 decoded an entire 1989 DOS game executable in one day — six months of work with earlier modeReddit poster: PlayfulInterview984Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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- The video: youtu.be
Linked in the post.