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Posted by: wrench100 on 2026-08-28 13:02:18
While Bitsy Bye is great for launching things, I got tired of having to use Apple's clunky utilities for copying files, so I asked Claude to whip me up a file manager. ZipFiler gives you an easy interface for copying, moving, locking, deleting, creating directories and more. No more typing pathnames! Work on single files or batches. You can also use it as a launcher. Enhanced Apple //e. Learn more and download it here: https://trompingmarmots.com/AppSites/ZipFiler/ |
Posted by: superjer2000 on 2026-08-28 16:45:06
Look up Sneeze - it's a great launcher and does what you noted here plus views text files and certain graphic images. I'd be a bit hesitant to trust a Claude coded program to manage files - it might work great but I'd be worried about file system corruption bugs. |
Posted by: wrench100 on 2026-08-28 17:07:17
Yes, SneeZe is very good. I've been using ZipFiler for about a week and doing a lot of copying, and so far haven't had any corruption. Claude built a test suite that hammered each file operation 300 times, and those all came out clean. |
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2026-08-28 17:27:34
Say what you want about AI programming, but it's getting pretty good at simple projects like this. Sure, there's a chance for issues like there is with any application, but yeah... it's a thing you can do now and it isn't going away. Where you run into problems is with larger projects where it begins to lose track of everything. |
Posted by: wrench100 on 2026-08-28 17:49:47
Claude Code is even getting good at larger projects because of its ability to compress its context. And it's interesting to see how it leaves itself notes all over the place. That seems to help keep things on track. Of course it's burning power and water like crazy. I'm managing my guilt by giving up almonds. |
Posted by: superjer2000 on 2026-08-29 12:56:41
Claude Code is even getting good at larger projects because of its ability to compress its context. And it's interesting to see how it leaves itself notes all over the place. That seems to help keep things on track. Of course it's burning power and water like crazy. I'm managing my guilt by giving up almonds. My first experience with Claude for coding was very good. I have a Linux box that acts as an Ethflop server for my IBM 5150 PC. The Ethflop program runs on the PC and connects to the Linux-based Ethflop server over Ethernet to mount disk images. The initial version of Ethflop didn't support switching disks making it less useful for multidisk installers. I tweaked the Ethflop server several years ago to provide a front end on the Linux box that allowed for disk swapping, but more recently the author of Ethflop updated the server to allow disk swapping operations by calling the server executable with a -c switch. I used Claude to write a php server (I know zero php) that hosts a local webpage and acts as a web based front end to the Ethflop server. I provided a clear description of what I wanted, fed it the documentation for Ethflop and the php code it wrote worked on the first try.
Great to hear that you did some pretty extensive testing on your file manager and it passed... it seems that Claude is getting pretty good even at code targeting vintage machines.
One of the projects I had in the back of my mind that would be good for Claude was writing an ANSI terminal emulator that would run under A2osX. A2osX supports the Uthernet II and provides for VT100 telnet connections, but a more full featured terminal program along the lines of a ProTerm3 that supports the uthernet II under A2osX would be great... |
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