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  • This story is now on Youtube: https://youtu.be/aIPKkOpIiF8
    by coolwulf
  • I've played this game so much on a Laser (Dutch computer brand) 286 with VGA monochrome screen, in the early '90s.
    by louwrentius
  • Man I loved this game. My friend and I would split responsibility and share the keyboard. One did the firing other the navigating
    by smrtinsert
  • Does AI fit well in trying to reason about the structure of a decompiled project when you lack symbol names?

    This isn’t my wheelhouse but I was surprised just how well AI could figure out the intent of the structure of some JavaScript where I had no source maps.

    by Waterluvian
  • It’s ridiculously easy to port games now.

    https://robin.tooclever.org took less than a day in API time

    by gmerc
  • Oh, this was one that I played a lot as a kid! (Alongside F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter - the two that apparently came before and after this game - TIL, and to a lesser extent F-14 Tomcat)

    I think, this needs the original game files to run, if I read things correctly. So probably just gonna read the dev journals, rather than fly this particular bird again...

    by imrehg
  • Noob question. I really hope this doesn't come across as negativity.

    I love that people spend time on making old games work, but why do people decompile games that can be emulated by DOSbox or the like? Surely a game this old runs absolutely fine on even very low end hardware?

    by taffydavid
  • Playable DOS version available

    First step was the full reverse to assembler, second step is to convert the assembler to binary equal compiled C code, all this still on DOS until no assembler code is left, then the porting to Linux,Windows will start

    Reversing tends to bring in new bugs and its not easy to find all bugs in such old and reversed code - but so far everything seems to work

    try finding open bugs if you got version 451.03 of F-15 around combined with Dosbox or a real DOS

    find latest DOS release here: https://github.com/neuviemeporte/f15se2-re/releases

    the f15_se2-*.zip file contains the replacement executables for the DOS game

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    by LowLevelMahn

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