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Reverse engineering F-15 Strike Eagle II: Unexpected progress in C code recreation project

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LowLevelMahn

17d ago· 3 min readenInsight
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Summary

A developer working on a hobby project to reverse engineer the 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II discusses the surprising acceleration of progress. What seemed like it would take years to convert assembly code into C for the second executable (egame) is now moving much faster than anticipated, with all C code already written at the time of writing.

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Hacker NewsReverse engineering F-15 Strike Eagle II: Unexpected progress in C code recreation projectneuviemeporte.github.io

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I must admit the rate of progress currently experienced in the project is a little overwhelming.
A little over a month ago it seemed that we had several more years of laborious rewritting of assembly into C before the second game executable (egame) started looking like something
as of the time of writing this, all C code ha
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(This post is part of a series on the subject of my hobby project, which is recreating the C source code for the 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II by reverse engineering the original binaries.)

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