Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

Post by MuffinFlavored » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

johnfn wrote: post #47

Eufrat wrote: post #42

IMHO, this is an actual good use of what sounds like a person guiding a model to do a mass conversion. Although, I wish the porting docs were a little wordsmithed by a human, the AI generated text style is grating. The stakes are low, it’s mostly for fun and you can iterate on it. Compare this with Bun which was just like, “hey we converted everything to Bun to Rust from Zig, of course it works, what could possibly g…

I don't really get the Bun thing. Bun is running Claude Code which is probably the single most actively used development app there is. You say this was a bad use of LLMs, but it's been in production for a while and I haven't heard of any evidence that Claude Code has increased a significantly larger quantity of errors, segfaults, etc, than before.

Post by satvikpendem » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

evanjrowley wrote: post #4

I wanna know if these techniques would be useful for Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001). It's the first 3D RTS by Westwood Studios, predating C&C Generals by just a couple years. It's popularity was hampered by intellectual property disputes and a introduction of a new faction that diverged from the book series lore. The gameplay, soundtrack, and campaign missions were awesome.

Post by swat535 » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

asronline wrote: post #23

HaloZero wrote: post #20

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Looks like EA did open source the game (only the first maybe) https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert This seems to be the most active port saying it works on a Mac/Linux https://github.com/Daft-Freak/CnC_and_Red_Alert

I wish they open sourced RA2 - I love that game, I heard they lost the source code :/

Post by dools » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 9:08 PM UTC

Dfiesl wrote: post #56

dools wrote: post #52

How is it done "using Fable" when the first commit was Feb last year??

Probably not exclusively using Fable.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC