Rabah Shihab

Builder - Entrepreneur - Eng Leader at Google

Made Babylonian Twins on the Amiga in Baghdad 1993. Steam this fall. Downloand on iOS/Android.

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[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@claudeai The Definitive Edition comes to Steam this fall, with a free demo up now. Wishlisting it helps more than anything else I can ask for: https://t.co/M4SlTuZa72

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@maxtex74 @Indie_RetroNEWS @TheRetroAsylum @ClassicReplay @AmigaBill_ @AmigaGuruBlog @PixelCNinja @fgasking Game is complete and out for free for the Amiga. It is also coming to Steam in November. One download that includes both the original and the remastered version. checked https://t.co/TJBnBWWPOd for details

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@Indie_RetroNEWS And the Definitive Edition comes to Steam this fall, with the 1993 original built in: https://t.co/SF0NOKW0CJ

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

Thank you @Indie_RetroNEWS — that title screen is from 1993, drawn by Murtadha Salman in Baghdad. The game never got its release; it's out now, free, 33 years later: https://t.co/qOh0dfsdBe

[INDIERETRONEWS @Indie_RetroNEWS]

Which was favourite retro gaming news story from this week? Babylonian Twins, Sonic (Amiga), Super Mario Bros(SMS), Fix-It Felix Jr(ZX NEXT), or something else? 🤩🤩 #retrogaming #amiga #nintendo #zxspectrum #games #gaming

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@surrealism19 @nawartamawi @claudeai Yes , Uday was working on his own game at that time, and we were meeting often. His game was not completeled though. There are some articles covering that period on the game website. BTW, your wiki is nice, but the dates for Mesopotamia should be the early 90s

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

On July 1st I gave @claudeai my old game and asked for a Godot port.

22:23 empty project
22:44 both twins playable
23:19 all 38 object types working
00:35 menus, map, saves. The full game.

I wrote this game in Baghdad in 1993. 🧵

[INDIERETRONEWS @Indie_RetroNEWS]

Indie Retro News: Babylonian Twins - An unreleased Amiga game from 1993 has finally appeared with an eye opening backstory. https://t.co/KKnewaaCw7 #retrogaming #gaming #amiga @TheRetroAsylum @ClassicReplay @AmigaBill_ @AmigaGuruBlog @rabahshihab @PixelCNinja @fgasking

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@Indie_RetroNEWS @TheRetroAsylum @ClassicReplay @AmigaBill_ @AmigaGuruBlog @PixelCNinja @fgasking Thanks ! The Definitive Edition is also coming to Steam and will include the Amiga version bundled inside. Joing the wishlist https://t.co/gzRm8sS1a3

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@hackernews And the modern version, for anyone asking: the Definitive Edition is on iOS and Android now, Steam this fall (include the Amiga version playable inside). Free demo on Steam already, wishlist if you want the launch to reach you.
https://t.co/H0IA38vYqX

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@hackernews Thank you for posting. The original 1993 game is also out today, free, as ADF for any Amiga hardware or emulator: https://t.co/qOh0dfsdBe

The write-up, with the timestamps and the things it got wrong: https://t.co/AqJwbdSHNH

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

And the modern version: the Definitive Edition, rebuilt in Godot 4 with the 1993 game running inside it at 50 Hz. Out now on #iOS and #Android, #Steam this fall.
https://t.co/ducAgKuK03

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@Indie_RetroNEWS Babylonian Twins, the 1993 Amiga game from Baghdad that was finished but never released: the full two-disk ADF is out this week, free. https://t.co/qOh0dfsdBe

How the 1993 sources were rebuilt byte-identical: https://t.co/AqJwbdSHNH

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

My 1993 Amiga game, written in 68000 assembly in Baghdad, is now a #GodotEngine 4.7 game, and the original runs inside it at 50 Hz. Write-up on the port is on the front page of Hacker News today. @godotengine

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

On July 1st I gave @claudeai my old game and asked for a Godot port.

22:23 empty project
22:44 both twins playable
23:19 all 38 object types working
00:35 menus, map, saves. The full game.

I wrote this game in Baghdad in 1993. 🧵

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@claudeai Gave Claude Fable 5, in Claude Code, the 68000 assembly of the Amiga game I wrote in Baghdad in 1993, and asked it to port the game to Godot. It rebuilt the shipped disks byte for byte before porting a line. Thread: https://t.co/FnfJlSKNo5

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

On July 1st I gave @claudeai my old game and asked for a Godot port.

22:23 empty project
22:44 both twins playable
23:19 all 38 object types working
00:35 menus, map, saves. The full game.

I wrote this game in Baghdad in 1993. 🧵

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@nawartamawi @claudeai I left in 1995 so I don't how it evolved since then.

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@claudeai The Definitive Edition comes to Steam this fall, with a free demo up now. Wishlisting it helps more than anything else I can ask for: https://t.co/M4SlTuZa72

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@claudeai Today, 33 years late, the original two-disk Amiga version is out, free: https://t.co/qOh0dfsdBe

The full write-up: https://t.co/AqJwbdSHNH

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@claudeai The 1993 #Amiga game now runs inside an upcoming modern @Steam port, at its original 50 Hz. Embedding one game inside the other took one evening.

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

@claudeai My favourite find: The level maps don't display the doors. The doors are 18-byte objects drawn onto the map at runtime. I have forgotten that, but Claude got that from the assembly code.

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

It rebuilt the shipped 1993 binaries byte-for-byte in less than 1 hour. Then it decoded the rest: analyzed headers, compression, bit encoding, the level maps, the object tables, the sprites.

[Rabah Shihab @rabahshihab]

That night it read the 2010 C++ iOS engine. The original is older: 72,758 lines of 68000 assembly in 26 files, written on an Amiga 500 as a student in sanctions-era Iraq. 512KB of RAM, no hard drive.

Then I handed it that.