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Show HN: Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port)

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JKCalhoun23 hours ago

This is very cool. It is the only port (that I am aware of) that brings over the additional Room Editor app that allowed you to create and edit "house" (game) files.

daviewales12 hours ago

Related: Aerofoil is an updated port of Glider Pro: https://github.com/elasota/Aerofoil Additional binaries are available here (Win, Mac, Android): https://galeforcegames.itch.io/aerofoil And a Linux Flatpak version is coming soon... https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/10703 And yes, it includes the Room Editor! (For those who care, it's also human-created from the original source code.)

statico8 hours ago

This is awesome. We can now run classic Mac applications as single page apps by emulating the Toolbox instead of the entire OS and emulating 68K & PowerPC with Wasm. I started to do this with https://github.com/jpivarski/executor-mac68k-emulator and Emscripten (with Claude driving) and got SimCity 2000 running as a single-page app with sound. Then I found https://systemless.org/ which is a similar project. Still, super cool.

devindotcom15 hours ago

Ah, the muscle memory comes back fast. >The port was directed by a human, implemented by Claude Opus 5.5, and designed by both. This is certainly one area where I find AI tools to be largely beneficial. There are so many pieces of near-forgotten software that are difficult to interface with at all, let alone to decompile, debug and port and so on. I was thinking lately how useful an AI-powered editor for NES- and SNES-era games would be. The existing tile and mapper editors are generally pretty clunky IIRC.

trueno11 hours ago

i had to have been like 3 years old when i played this game. didnt even know it had a name. just seeing it visually made me realize i still have memories there, i literally wouldve never thought of it again for the rest of my life if it wasn't for this wow.