Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office
Summary
An in-depth look at AI-assisted reverse engineering of legacy software, focusing on Chromatron revival across platforms using Ghidra, Claude, GPT, m2c, Opus 4.5/4.6, Rust, and PyGhidra. The piece catalogs multiple approaches, highlights the strengths and hallucinations of large language models, and emphasizes pixel-perfect verification and careful tool selection as keys to successful legacy software recreation. It offers practical insights for AI toolchains, decompilation workflows, and risk awareness in AI-assisted software restoration.