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Benj Edwards
@benjedwards.com

With Claude Code, I created a text-based mouse GUI that simulates a 1984 Macintosh Drag-drop icons, scrollbars, resizable windows, menus Five working apps: MacWrite, MacPaint, Terminal, Calculator, and Puzzle! Telnet to port 1984 or use the web terminal link below: www.vintagecomputing.com/1984/

Benj Edwards
@benjedwards.com

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

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Benj Edwards
@benjedwards.com

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!

github.comGitHub - benj-edwards/ascii-processing-unit: A universal character-cell display engine for terminal applications, text-based games, MUSHes, and windowed ASCII interfacesA universal character-cell display engine for terminal applications, text-based games, MUSHes, and windowed ASCII interfaces - benj-edwards/ascii-processing-unit
Benj Edwards
@benjedwards.com

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

Benj Edwards
@benjedwards.com

A couple other notes: Claude coded the web-based terminal emulator for the web version as part of a separate project I was working on. And for the Mac demo, if you don't have mouse support you can use cursor keys and space bar on a real vintage terminal!