Its not just retro computing..
category: general [glöplog]
Its worth pointing out, it isn't just retro software forums and databases being clogged up with AI content..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/08/ai-clog-public-bodies-local-authorities-onslaught-chatbot-generated-correspondence
How about 30 new c64 games all "written" in about a single day or two..
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90606
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/08/ai-clog-public-bodies-local-authorities-onslaught-chatbot-generated-correspondence
How about 30 new c64 games all "written" in about a single day or two..
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90606
You probably missed the point. Site name is : https://www.lAImer.top/
"No human came up with anything here: nobody dreamed up the game, nobody counted cycles, nobody fought the SID, nobody loved the machine. One prompt, and the AI was given a time limit of thirty minutes to finish it. It is here to hold up a mirror to the proud “AI game creators”: typing a prompt and waiting is not an achievement. It's nothing, just like these games are nothing."
"No human came up with anything here: nobody dreamed up the game, nobody counted cycles, nobody fought the SID, nobody loved the machine. One prompt, and the AI was given a time limit of thirty minutes to finish it. It is here to hold up a mirror to the proud “AI game creators”: typing a prompt and waiting is not an achievement. It's nothing, just like these games are nothing."
Yes I got that, which is why I posted it!
what oxb said
The "lAImer" site and games are obvious parody/sarcasm, but there's a rather long thread on Lemon listing AI-generated/assisted games https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90228 with about 50 games listed at the time of writing this that quite adequately demonstrates the situation.
Oops, correction to previous: Over 70 games on that thread (got tired of counting), not including the "laimer" ones.
isn't it itch.io that had to deal with this recently as well…
offtopic nit but can we stop referring to demoscene as retro computing pretty please? we don't call techno "retro music" either even though it got invented around the same time as the amiga.
”retro techno” actually sounds pretty damn cool.
But yeah.. it also irks me whenever i see non-sceners talking about the demoscene, and it’s like nothing has happened since the release of Second Reality in 1993…
But yeah.. it also irks me whenever i see non-sceners talking about the demoscene, and it’s like nothing has happened since the release of Second Reality in 1993…
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we don't call techno "retro music"
challenge accepted.
Or then it's how they make entire small demoscenes into 4 kilobytes.
I wish this would stay as a happy luddite space.
I wish this would stay as a happy luddite space.
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and it’s like nothing has happened since the release of Second Reality in 1993…
it's called a SINE SCROLLER, say it with respect
Lmao
Thou shall not cite AI shite!
Anyway, what is “retro” in the act of producing modern stuff that runs on vintage computers? Nothing.
Yeah, aside from the right threshold for how many years ago this stuff appeared, I also learned, that "vintage" fits better.