GeneralsX

The HN title makes it sound like Fable did the port from the original code base to macOS and iOS, but this is very wrong (the project's readme does a much better job). It's merely enhanching an existing macOS version to also run on iOS, which tbh is very trivial and not at all impressive for any LLM. The actually important work (of making the original code release portable and then create Linux and macOS ports) had already been done in https://github.com/fbraz3/GeneralsX. There is really not much to see here.

TL;DR: nothing to see here, HN title is extremely misleading > rendering DirectX 8 → DXVK → Vulkan → MoltenVK → Metal. Ok, *this* is a bit weird. Why create such a jenga tower of indirections instead of directly letting the LLM port the rendering code from D3D8 to Metal either through a D3D8-to-Metal shim or even better by creating a new Metal-based render layer beneath the higher level game specific rendering code? I would expect that the LLM can 'see through' all those redundant shims and collapse them into the equivalent Metal code. Also the readme says 'no emulation', but then goes on to describe the rendering layer as emulating D3D8 on top of Vulkan on top of Metal ;) (also why are both Meson and CMake required) PS: after reading more, it can be explained by what this project does (and it's not what the HN title says): it's not a por

upstream is a MacOS+linux build. https://github.com/fbraz3/GeneralsX.