Show HN: An x86 assembly game from 2002, ported to WebAssembly with Claude Code(particlefield.com)

6 pointsby gottebpvor 5 Monaten2 comments

Show HN: An x86 assembly game from 2002, ported to WebAssembly with Claude Code

https://particlefield.com/projects/alan-parsons/game.html

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gottebpvor 5 Monaten

This started as a two-week final project for ECE 291 at UIUC in 2002. A space (or sky) shooter written entirely in x86 assembly. Hand tuned SSE memory ops, Mersenne Twister RNG, toroidal map physics, 10,000 particles at, all software-rendered.

Twenty-three years later I burned a pile of Opus 4.6 tokens to port the assembly to C, then compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten. The first attempt was a direct x86 to WASM transpiler; it passed hundreds of unit tests but kept crashing. The second approach through C worked well.

github: https://github.com/gottebp/alan_parsons_project

story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-projects-stick-you-longe...

fuzzfactorvor 5 Monaten

This is really outstanding.

Both efforts, which each amount to a challenging project of their own !