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Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by ufmace on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:32PM (#28417096)
It's probably better to link the developer's original page about this rather than a news article about it: https://www.arctic81.com/
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by yorwba on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:33PM (#28417108)
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by maybeOneDay on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:44PM (#28417901)
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
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by cpeterso on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:11PM (#28420616)
I 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/

Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by Terretta on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:05PM (#28418583)
Same on iPad. The emulator the author mentions doesn’t have this issue for me:

http://trsjs.48k.ca/

Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by lelanthran on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:12PM (#28418639)
Thank god! I thought my keyboard was acting up.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by oyagci on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:33PM (#28417119)
Unreadable on mobile, unfortunately
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by pzh on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:44PM (#28417896)
Give it about 40 years, and he’ll fix it.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by leonmoonen on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:54PM (#28417378)
“Reader View” solves the horrible font choice...
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by scns on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:05PM (#28418072)
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.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by petee on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:18PM (#28417646)
I agree, font is squished, and for some reason performance is terrible, causes Opera (chrome) to freeze up on refocusing the tab
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by kroltan on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:52PM (#28417971)
It has an autoplaying game, given the performance it's likely a full emulator for the computer in question.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by nguyenkien on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:10PM (#28418120)
Even on PC. End up copy to text editor
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by nixass on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:37PM (#28417162)
Text wrapping on? Unless you're talking about weird font and it's readability
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by VortexDream on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:39PM (#28417198)
I assume he means the font. I took a brief look and I'm not reading all that text in that font.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by CarCooler on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:54PM (#28417381)
Yeah, it's the font that Atari games had at the time.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by masklinn on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:22PM (#28417679)
Yes the font is completely unreadable on mobile.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by dylan604 on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:33PM (#28418317)
"(Thanks also to Rebecca G. Bettencourt, whose excellent TRS-80 font was perfect for this website.)"

The author disagrees with your sentiment

Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by masklinn on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:01PM (#28418557)
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.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by Terretta on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:05PM (#28418589)
It’s fine on iPhone and iPad, which are mobile.
Re:Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and ... by masklinn on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:20AM (#28424148)
It’s certainly not fine on iphone. The font renders but is very hard to read and the aspect ratio is awful.