Very cool! There's a few personal projects like this I'd love to try a SOTA agentic AI like Claude for but I'm terrified to give it any access to my machine.
Stuff like the ISO just reinforces that terror. How did it find the iso? did it do google searches? What if instead of archive.org it found totallySketchWarez.com and installed a virus? what if it found a torrent and set that up and got you in trouble with an ISP?
it's tenacity is also a double edged sword what if it starts to try to modify the OS instead of random DLLs to make things right?
Always seems so risky to let these things loose while at the same time they lose a lot of utility if you have to hold their hand for every web call or decision.
I'm a web engineer with zero Wine experience, and I wanted to replay a Nancy Drew game from 2007 that I used to play on the Windows XP computer in our kitchen. I pointed Claude Code at it and let it run. Six hours, 400 tool calls, a binary DLL patch, a virtual filesystem hack later - it worked! This game is amazing. Also I'm not sure Claude fixed it in a legal way...
> After exhausting every Vulkan approach, it switched back to OpenGL… and it worked. It fell back to an older OpenGL version, but everything rendered.
It sounds like Vulkan was the big blocker here, then? I'd be curious if everything ran fine with nothing but the OpenGL D3DX backend, Proton seems to suggest that the Nancy Drew games are fixed on recent Proton/DXVK builds.
Very cool! There's a few personal projects like this I'd love to try a SOTA agentic AI like Claude for but I'm terrified to give it any access to my machine.
Stuff like the ISO just reinforces that terror. How did it find the iso? did it do google searches? What if instead of archive.org it found totallySketchWarez.com and installed a virus? what if it found a torrent and set that up and got you in trouble with an ISP?
it's tenacity is also a double edged sword what if it starts to try to modify the OS instead of random DLLs to make things right?
Always seems so risky to let these things loose while at the same time they lose a lot of utility if you have to hold their hand for every web call or decision.
I'm a web engineer with zero Wine experience, and I wanted to replay a Nancy Drew game from 2007 that I used to play on the Windows XP computer in our kitchen. I pointed Claude Code at it and let it run. Six hours, 400 tool calls, a binary DLL patch, a virtual filesystem hack later - it worked! This game is amazing. Also I'm not sure Claude fixed it in a legal way...
> After exhausting every Vulkan approach, it switched back to OpenGL… and it worked. It fell back to an older OpenGL version, but everything rendered.
It sounds like Vulkan was the big blocker here, then? I'd be curious if everything ran fine with nothing but the OpenGL D3DX backend, Proton seems to suggest that the Nancy Drew games are fixed on recent Proton/DXVK builds.
so fun!