Image: herbert256.github.io
A 38-year-old GW-BASIC game recovered from a disk image
Claude found a GW-BASIC game its author had published in a magazine 38 years ago on an archived disk image and converted it into a web page.
Credits
- Reddit poster Herbert256 Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
Thirty-eight years ago the poster had a text-mode GW-BASIC game called Sneekie published as four pages of code in a computer magazine, but had lost every copy. The magazine's founder keeps an online archive of the issue floppy disks, so the poster gave Claude Fable the .dsk image and asked it to find the game and convert it into a single modern HTML page.
Claude inspected the disk image with a Python script and found SNEEKIE.BAS within minutes, and the post links to the game running as a web page.
How it was done
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: A little fun thing done by FableReddit poster: Herbert256Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: A little fun thing done by Fable (opens in a new tab)
- The project: herbert256.github.io
The rebuilt game.