ChatGPT revives unplayable 2000s game Bookworm on Mac and iPhone in 15 minutes
Shleemy_Pants · reddit · 2026-10-16
A user who spent years hunting for a Mac version of the childhood game Bookworm handed an old DMG to ChatGPT and asked it to "make it work": five minutes later it ran on Apple Silicon macOS, and ten minutes after that it was natively ported to iPhone via Xcode—about 15 minutes total.
Beyond the win, the author wrestles with the implications: when AI can revive and rewrite old software this easily, is anything original anymore? Is everything now effectively "open source"? A striking demo of AI coding assistants letting non-developers pull off reverse-engineering-style porting work.
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