A new emulator called "PC98PLAYER" has been released, allowing users to run PC-98 games on Windows 11. No complicated setup is required. Simply click the .exe file to launch a game.

[u/kugyu]

https://x.com/Imaha486/status/2103638508074320010

A large selection of free PC-98 games is available on VECTOR, providing plenty of titles to test with the emulator. Some classic AliceSoft games are also available as freeware.

Some games may require a few extra steps to get running. Check the developer’s blog and Twitter for details.

Developer’s website: https://i486.mods.jp/ichild/pc98player

[u/EnigmaticAlt]

Claude-kun

So it's vibe-coded.

[u/MorningCareful → u/EnigmaticAlt]

Yup and closed source as well

[u/Khan93j → u/MorningCareful]

Aww shiiiit

i can bear the IA-coded thing as long they open source them, so anyone with coding skills, can review it and say "okay guys, is safe use it" but a close source one is like screaming you in the face like a t-rex "danger" because we no know if it had something hidden in the code against us.

[u/KnightOMetal → u/Khan93j]

[...] we no know if it had something hidden in the code against us.

Not even the author knows!

[u/Khan93j → u/KnightOMetal]

Old evil hackers/coders: red button is for keyloggers, yellow button is for blackmail and green button is to show you a dancing martian.

New AI-coders: press green button to show a dancing martian but the code say nuke the city in a boring and stupid way

Old evil hackers/coders: what the fuck is wrong with you!?

[u/mrjackspade → u/Khan93j]

As a professional software developer of > 20 years who also uses AI (willingly), I absolutely do not fucking trust AI and strongly suggest that other people don't as well.

I have seen even SOTA models do some of the stupidest shit that would get a human being fired. I had a SOTA Claude model spin up a website for a task and for the user session it made the cookie "UserId=1" so you could go in and change the fucking user ID and impersonate any user in the system, including admins.

Do not run vibe coded software on an important system without some kind of process isolation or sandboxing, unless someone you trust has reviewed it for the kind of idiocy that these models will randomly pull out of pocket.

You are one bad prompt away from losing your OS install.

AI is the future, I fully believe that, but you don't need to become a beta tester for that future when the potential result is getting fucked over that hard.

[u/TingleOfficial]

Vibe coded stuff can launch games, but rarely do they actually run well.

[u/WeegeeNator]

Absolutely not

[u/LandNo9424]

vibecoded crap

[u/redalchemy6]

I'll stick with Neko Project

[u/Ultracatflap1]

Its really hard to find new projects that aren't just Claude code slop lately. Same with a lot of decomps of older games.

[u/GattonBiscuitsArtAcc → u/Ultracatflap1]

Same, I recently got a lot of content recommended and was surprised that the great majority is AI coded.

[u/neverJamToday → u/Ultracatflap1]

bc it went from "this one guy has both an interest in this specific niche thing AND the coding knowledge to make something for it and it took them 5 years in their spare time" to "everybody and their brother with an interest in the niche thing is just going 'Claude i wanna do this' and then running to twitter or reddit or wherever to share it like a kid bringing the thing they colored in to their mom to put on the fridge."

[u/dragonfleas]

Vibe coded AND closed source? Nah I’m good lmao

[u/SgtPetro]

Nah I don't fw vibe coded chicanery

[u/SkengmanSaiyan]

I'd rather shit in my hands and clap.

[u/angel_night32]

I usually use Anex86 but I'll give this one a try, thanks.

[u/Nanayadez]

Imaha486 put it up on github with the source now.

[u/Illustrious_Spot3428]

The README says "No source code from other emulators is used (EGC, PCM86, XMS/EMS, MPU, etc. are also independently implemented)," but "Claude-kun" is clearly referencing NP2's source code.

https://github.com/Imaha486/PC98PLAYER/blob/a2cc28b7e35a5009f8b5b8ef397878457a7c4c09/core/machine.h#L58-L74

https://github.com/AZO234/NP2kai/blob/5939e0c6d5985c4c08fc70f289a83290e5d3e6f7/io/egc.h#L14-L43

I wish vibe-coders would show even a fraction of the respect to open-source pioneers that they show to their AI overlords.