Wird CODE jetzt wertlos ?!

Games are currently being dismantled, remixed, and brought to PC using AI. And that is the most harmless part of this story. Welcome back to Hot Informatik. It all started, at least in your feed, likely with video games. Steve from Minecraft fights bosses from Elden Ring, someone skates through Call of Duty maps, and at the same time, you

read everywhere that PlayStation 5 games are now running on PC or in a browser. That is all exciting, but the real story is much bigger. Games are simply the first place people see it because it can be shown well in a 30- second clip. The core behind it, however, concerns every piece of

software that exists. And that is exactly what this is about today. To understand what is happening there, we briefly need two terms. Software is written in languages like C or C ++, which is text that humans can read. A compiler, essentially a translation program, turns that into machine code. These are the raw instructions that a

processor executes directly. And as you can see, we cannot read those very easily. Almost always, only this machine code is sold. The source code remains with the manufacturer. This means the CD you buy contains exactly this machine code. Decompiling now means going this path backward and turning machine code back into readable source code. For decades, this was

extremely tedious because variable names, comments, and the original structure are lost during compilation. What has changed now can be seen very well in an example from the retro scene . The Australian developer Chris Lewis fully decompiled the Nintendo 64 game Snowboard Kids, such that the newly written C-code results in the exact same bit-for-bit machine code as the