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Target: stress.exe / Desktop Games (2000 freeware)

Ported the 2000 freeware toy stress.exe to macOS and the web with Claude Code and REA

stress.exe / Desktop Games (2000 freeware): A 2000 freeware toy brought back on macOS and the web.
Image: GitHub (ucodia/desktop-games-nostalgia)

What was done

Ucodia used Opus 5.5 with the REA toolkit to turn the freeware desktop-smashing toy stress.exe into a Mac app and a browser version.

Ucodia ported Desktop Games, also known as stress.exe, a freeware desktop-smashing toy from 2000, to macOS and the browser. He used Opus 5.5 with the Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) toolkit and had a faithful port within 30 minutes.

How it was done

The original program lets you wreck a picture of your screen with hammers, a chain-saw, a flame-thrower and termites. Ucodia pointed Claude Code and REA at the original and asked for a port. The result reuses the original graphics, animations and stereo sound effects. The author credits the original creator, Miroslav Nemecek of Gemtree Software, and says the project is unofficial and non-commercial.

Results

By his account the port took 30 minutes, and after about two hours there was a downloadable .dmg for macOS and a web version styled as a Windows XP desktop. The macOS app takes one screenshot at start so you can smash your real desktop, and it needs Screen Recording permission for that. The browser version runs on a fake desktop instead. The repo has a README with the full tool list, a demo and the release download.