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Desktop Games Nostalgia: a macOS and browser port

A Swift/macOS and JavaScript/browser port recreates the Desktop Games screen-smashing toy from a captured image. The author documents Claude and REA/Ghidra work on the Peter interpreter, a decompiled program tree and extracted assets, with explicit visual differences and no project license.

Requirements & limits

  • Prerequisites: Native use requires macOS 14+; Screen Recording access captures one screen image, while wallpaper mode is available without it. The browser version uses a simulated desktop and needs a mouse/keyboard.
  • Attribution: The README attributes interpreter analysis to REA/Ghidra and the port to Claude Code; extracted images/sounds are included upstream. The effects alter an image, not the real desktop files.
  • Limits: True-color rendering and translucent sprite shadows differ from the original palette renderer. The browser cannot capture the actual desktop; no independent parity measurements are supplied.
  • License: The author explicitly provides no project license and retains Gemtree credit for original design/art/sound. Desktop decoration and other upstream assets retain their separate rights; this record grants no redistribution permission.

About this entry

Type
Case study
Category
Community REA investigations
Relationship
Author-reported mixed workflow
Targets
Binary · Game

Sources reviewed

The description was reviewed against primary sources. This does not establish runtime testing, security auditing or verified compatibility.

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Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · ucodia/desktop-games-nostalgia · Revision 27946df

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