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Binky: Frozen In Time Is A Brand New C64 Platformer From Thalamus, And It's Available Right Now (www.timeextension.com)
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[–] VerdantTome@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I can't imagine AI being able to code something efficiently enough to run on a C64!

I try to stay in touch with the Atari 2600 homebrew community, and this was the conventional thinking there, too. But between increases in LLM's sampling of appropriate code and various automated tools, some people have started making games for the console with AI and very little knowledge of their own.

Are the games good? Not particularly. Are they as well-coded as a moderately talented human could achieve? Not even close. But they are functional. If AI can do that, I'm sorry to say that it should almost certainly be able to make a C64 "game" of some description.