Show HN: Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI

by staredon 3/7/2026, 12:56 PMwith 9 comments

Play: https://p.migdal.pl/chromatron-oxide/ Repo: https://github.com/stared/chromatron-oxide/ (educational purpose only) The original: https://www.silverspaceship.com/chromatron/

Full story in the blog post.

by duskwuffon 3/9/2026, 5:51 AM

The source code to Chromatron was made available on the game's forum at one point. Here's a copy I saved:

https://gist.github.com/duskwuff/513e2b4f38b3db2e060c8611ebf...

A couple of helper functions are missing, but nothing terribly important.

by ticulatedsplineon 3/9/2026, 4:48 PM

FWIW game works fine on windows 11 64bit. went to https://www.silverspaceship.com/chromatron/ ran the exe. fun game.

by casey2on 3/9/2026, 4:59 AM

Very nice. But "Models excel at code, but not at visual inspection" is limited, Claude excel's at code cause that is anthropics main focus. Google will leapfrog them soon.

I could never see Claude doing this without a human in the loop, while Google has probably already reverse engineered a good chunk of the software available on the web

by xnxon 3/9/2026, 5:18 AM

Similar recent project for Skyroads: https://github.com/ammaarreshi/SkyRoads-Codex

by alberto-mon 3/7/2026, 8:49 PM

Excellent article, thanks!