[HN Gopher] Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers...
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Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and fixes typo
so it works
Author : CarCooler
Score : 134 points
Date : 2021-09-04 16:32 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.pcgamer.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.pcgamer.com)
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| I 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.
| ufmace wrote:
| It's probably better to link the developer's original page about
| this rather than a news article about it:
| https://www.arctic81.com/
| yorwba wrote:
| Discussed 6 days ago:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28344635
| oyagci wrote:
| Unreadable on mobile, unfortunately
| nguyenkien wrote:
| Even on PC. End up copy to text editor
| leonmoonen wrote:
| "Reader View" solves the horrible font choice...
| scns wrote:
| Since 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.
| pzh wrote:
| Give it about 40 years, and he'll fix it.
| petee wrote:
| I agree, font is squished, and for some reason performance is
| terrible, causes Opera (chrome) to freeze up on refocusing
| the tab
| kroltan wrote:
| It has an autoplaying game, given the performance it's
| likely a full emulator for the computer in question.
| nixass wrote:
| Text wrapping on? Unless you're talking about weird font and
| it's readability
| masklinn wrote:
| Yes the font is completely unreadable on mobile.
| dylan604 wrote:
| "(Thanks also to Rebecca G. Bettencourt, whose excellent
| TRS-80 font was perfect for this website.)"
|
| The author disagrees with your sentiment
| masklinn wrote:
| Or, 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 wrote:
| It's fine on iPhone and iPad, which are mobile.
| VortexDream wrote:
| I assume he means the font. I took a brief look and I'm not
| reading all that text in that font.
| CarCooler wrote:
| Yeah, it's the font that Atari games had at the time.
| maybeOneDay wrote:
| In 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 wrote:
| Same on iPad. The emulator the author mentions doesn't have
| this issue for me:
|
| http://trsjs.48k.ca/
| lelanthran wrote:
| Thank god! I thought my keyboard was acting up.
| brador wrote:
| He could have used his phone to OCR a photo and copy paste the
| text out instead of hand typing the 5 pages of code.
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