Developer Runs Half-Life at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95
Hacker News (AI keywords)6 days agoHardwareA developer reportedly managed to run Half-Life at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, a smartphone originally released in 2007. Based on the title alone, the item appears to be a retro hardware and gaming-porting story rather than an AI development. The main significance is technical novelty: demonstrating an old mobile device handling a classic PC game at a playable frame rate.
Recreating a 1980s Retro Game with Claude: Simon Willison's "Mad House"
Simon Willison's Weblog21 days agoNew ToolSimon Willison leveraged Claude to convert a 1983 BASIC game called "Mad House" from a free Usborne PDF into a modern web app. By prompting Claude to generate a mobile-friendly, retro-styled vanilla JavaScript Artifact, he successfully revived the classic Commodore 64-era game with a green-on-black terminal aesthetic, showcasing LLMs' utility in software preservation and rapid prototyping.