AI Helps Run an Old Game on 64-bit macOS

Summary

A Hacker News user says the AI assistant Astra helped get Aviary Attorney running on a newer 64-bit macOS system within minutes. The game had stopped working because it used 32-bit Node-WebKit, an old Node.js and Chromium combination that modern macOS cannot run. Astra identified that the game content itself consisted of HTML, JavaScript, images, and audio. Because the content was separate from the obsolete runtime, replacing the runtime made the game feasible to run again. The account is presented as a successful example of AI-assisted porting, while the author notes that the result may have depended on the particular structure of this game.