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Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and fixes typo so it works
- ufmace 5y agoIt's probably better to link the developer's original page about this rather than a news article about it: https://www.arctic81.com/ https://www.arctic81.com/
- yorwba 5y agoDiscussed 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28344635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28344635
- oyagci 5y agoUnreadable on mobile, unfortunately
- nixass 5y agoText wrapping on? Unless you're talking about weird font and it's readability
- VortexDream 5y agoI assume he means the font. I took a brief look and I'm not reading all that text in that font.
- CarCooler 5y agoYeah, it's the font that Atari games had at the time.
- masklinn 5y agoYes the font is completely unreadable on mobile.
- dylan604 5y ago"(Thanks also to Rebecca G. Bettencourt, whose excellent TRS-80 font was perfect for this website.)" The author disagrees with your sentiment
- masklinn 5y agoOr, and that seems more likely, they do not care about it, or even think that the page should not be at all readable on mobile devices.
- Terretta 5y agoIt’s fine on iPhone and iPad, which are mobile.
- masklinn 5y agoIt’s certainly not fine on iphone. The font renders but is very hard to read and the aspect ratio is awful.
- leonmoonen 5y ago“Reader View” solves the horrible font choice...
- scns 5y agoSince even FireFox mobile did not offer reader mode to me, i used EinkBro to make it readable. Strange name but a nice alternative browser to have on Android. Got recommended here on HN.
- petee 5y agoI agree, font is squished, and for some reason performance is terrible, causes Opera (chrome) to freeze up on refocusing the tab
- kroltan 5y agoIt has an autoplaying game, given the performance it's likely a full emulator for the computer in question.
- pzh 5y agoGive it about 40 years, and he’ll fix it.
- nguyenkien 5y agoEven on PC. End up copy to text editor
- maybeOneDay 5y agoIn case the developer sees it, on Firefox I'm not getting my key presses picked up approximately half the time when typing naturally for me. Which is probably faster than the average human but not fast for someone that is good at typing
- Terretta 5y agoSame on iPad. The emulator the author mentions doesn’t have this issue for me: http://trsjs.48k.ca/ http://trsjs.48k.ca/
- lelanthran 5y agoThank god! I thought my keyboard was acting up.
- cpeterso 5y agoI tested the game in Firefox and Chrome and they both lost about half my key presses when typing. I guess the emulator is slow? https://www.arctic81.com/ https://www.arctic81.com/
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoI wrote a game in PL/M in the bad old days before good debuggers. Didn't work. Fast-forward and years later a colleague wrote a source debugger for our OS (CTOS) and in half an hour I had the game running. Bad pointer construction if I remember right - pointing to byte variables and treating them as pointers to words.
- brador 5y agoHe could have used his phone to OCR a photo and copy paste the text out instead of hand typing the 5 pages of code.