Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

	Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable(github.com)
	680 points by asronline 48 days ago \| 283 comments
	tl;dr: Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour has been natively ported to Apple Silicon Macs, iPhone, and iPad, running the original 2003 engine via a DirectX 8 → DXVK → Vulkan → MoltenVK → Metal rendering chain with custom RTS touch controls. Built on EA's GPL v3 source release and prior community porting work (TheSuperHackers, Fighter19, GeneralsX), the fork adds iOS-specific fixes for read-only filesystems, app lifecycle handling, and DXVK cross-compilation. The author notes the C++ work was done by Claude Code with human direction, and teases an upcoming Renegade port using similar methodology.
	HN Discussion: ↓Title is misleading/clickbait since macOS port was already done by prior work, not by Fable ↑LLMs are genuinely useful for reverse engineering and porting old games ↓AI-generated writing style and made-up compound nouns are grating and noticeable ↓The rendering chain of DirectX→DXVK→Vulkan→MoltenVK→Metal is unnecessarily convoluted •Curiosity about applying these techniques to other older games like Emperor: Battle for Dune