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Claude writes a Z80 Wordle for the TEC-1G, after some invented instructions

Hackaday covered a Ready Z80 video in which the creator guides Claude, section by section, to write Wordle in Z80 assembly for a TEC-1G. The board has a QWERTY keyboard add-on, but Claude first assumed a hex keypad and used instructions the Z80 does not have. It stopped once corrected. Hackaday says the two got a working game.

Open original source hackaday.com · Tyler August (Hackaday)

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Hackaday write-up of the creator's video; we did not check the video for the game running on hardware.

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The TEC-1G is a single-board computer modeled on the TEC-1, a design the Australian magazine Talking Electronics published in the 1980s. The 23-minute video builds the game in stages, by its chapter list: storing and looking up more than 10,000 words, keyboard input, the graphic LCD, comparing a guess, then sound effects. The chapter list ends at 19:45 with playing the finished game.

In the video description the creator says a programming background was needed to fix Claude's mistakes, which got smaller as the work went on. The Wordle source sits in the TEC-1G group's software repository. Hackaday's Tyler August writes that the creator could have written the game himself.

“As usual for a LLM, Claude was overconfident and tossed out some nonexistent instructions.”

Tyler August (Hackaday), in the source on hackaday.com

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