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I'm stunned you were able to weedle out that much functionality from an LLM, however many sessions it took.

There's also an incomplete color demo of Win 3.x in text If you telnet to vintagecomputing.com port 1990 And I have a fully modular windowed version of this with a file explorer I am developing into my own remote terminal shell for SSH that I will eventually put on Github

The key is that I architected a new text/Telnet display engine called ASCII Processing Unit (APU): github.com/benj-edwards... It handles the terminal protocols, windows, and mouse so any app, game, or emulator can plug into it and easily make simple display calls. A modular work in progress!

It's worth noting that Claude Code could not create all of this itself. It's not a one shot-project, and yet this demo only took maybe two days of work. It required a lot of guidance and feedback from me, but the tool made it possible for me to work quickly in an iterative design loop

Pretty surprising 🤯 btw Claude is also being used to create games in IntyBASIC. Very early, but I'm willing to see how so far this goes.

You know, Benj, I was just messing with an idea in a somewhat similar wheelhose. bsky.app/profile/erni...

holy DESQview (but better!)