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by LocalH 8 days ago
I just wonder why he didn't boot up an Amiga emulator and copy the files out that way. Could even run DiskSalv on the disk image to look for data in the slack space. Or he could have used a tool like what comes with ADFlib (https://github.com/adflib/ADFlib) to do it. This seems like a thinly-veiled ad for AI and for this person's company, at the end.

Edit: I loaded the ADF into WinUAE and ram it through DiskSalv to check for deleted files. There were none.

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> This seems like a thinly-veiled ad for AI and for this person's company, at the end.

There was a very clear (what's the opposite of thinly-veiled?) advertisment for the person's company at the end! But I didn't read is as an advert for AI - that was just a tool that was used along the way.

There are tons of tools the blog author could have used before resorting to using AI to convert an existing library to Python.

AI isn't "just a tool", the whole reason it exists is to offload thinking. I wish I'd noticed this needed "recovery" before this person did, I'd have extracted the files and been done with it. AI was not necessary for this at all

The ad was well past the lede