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Posted by jttnr 7 hours ago

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers(nanolathe.gg)
328 points | 141 commentspage 5
drowntoge 4 hours ago|
Now do Jagged Alliance 2.
nenrnlwmmgmnw 2 hours ago|
JA2 is already open source. Great game, but the community isnt as big now a days.
noduerme 6 hours ago||
I was wondering what this "clean-room" jargon actually meant, after looking at the Adobe ripoffs being vibe coded by ArtCraft.

As with most forms of theft and laundering, it's not really that clever.

>> This document records behavior established from static analysis of the retail TotalA.exe. It is a clean-room behavioral contract, not a source translation. It deliberately omits executable addresses, data-image offsets, and raw decompiler names. The phrases established, supported inference, and unknown distinguish what the analysis proves from what remains a useful but unverified interpretation.

The evidence is the executable's own control and data flow, its PE import table, and its embedded string vocabulary. Nothing here is taken from another engine, a capture, or a reimplementation.

Step 1: Ask an LLM to decompile a binary, wash it into a "clean" description of the binary in its own format (a bunch of .MD files, one might suppose) and then build a new binary from that description.

Step 2: Nothing.

Is this really going to hold up in court?

singingtoday 1 hour ago||
Are you using the word "theft" colloquially or literally?

I'm just curious, people consider this theft?

Pannoniae 3 hours ago||
imo the better question is whether it will actually get to court, and the precedent on that is mostly no. so it doesn't really matter i think
totallymike 4 hours ago||
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Rabbit504030201 4 hours ago||
Typical "piracy with way too much effort". With modern ML tools, author could at least change all the graphics; but no, generic upscale.

I hope it gets booted off Microsoft-owned Github for blatant copyright infringement. Total Annihilation ain't abandonware, and Xbox division don't need legal boycotts from third party publishers.

markus_zhang 6 hours ago|
Guess this is going to be the norm and we will soon run out of games to decompile.