alt Hacker NewsShow HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
Hello my name is Ben Ward for the past 3 years I have been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 1986.
It has been a rough journey but I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just recently redid the website and thought maybe the full story of how this project came to be would interest you all. Thank you for reading.
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Congratulations Ben! The game sounds like a dangerous cult that I want no part of. But I've also done game ports recently and was curious - how much of the old codebase did you need to understand (and change!) in order to port it? And how much could you just wrap up / virtualise, and start building on top?
AI can’t do impossible things yet, but we still can.
wow, that was pain to read. I was expecting the technical side debugging, instead I get the article about literally nothing FULL of unverifiable claims and lore.
How does the deal with the original author work with regard to the ownership of the copyright?
I mean, the article means passing the torch but how exactly is this assured in case the author dies and the estate holders don't release the copyright?
So, it sounds like you are in a perfect position to tell us whether Epstein's statement is right, THAT WALL STREET "makes trading way more complicated than it needs to be, because of all the money they make"
I have been eagerly waiting for this project's release since I first heard about it, thanks for the update!
Love it and fascinated to play the game.
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I feel like this is the sort of thing AI could do in 10 minutes. Did you try?
They spent so much time and effort to port this game to... Windows only?...
The game itself could be a good benchmark for AI agents.