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ufmace
It's probably better to link the developer's original page about this rather than a news article about it: https://www.arctic81.com/
oyagci
Unreadable on mobile, unfortunately
nixass
Text wrapping on? Unless you're talking about weird font and it's readability
VortexDream
I assume he means the font. I took a brief look and I'm not reading all that text in that font.
CarCooler
Yeah, it's the font that Atari games had at the time.
masklinn
Yes the font is completely unreadable on mobile.
dylan604
"(Thanks also to Rebecca G. Bettencourt, whose excellent TRS-80 font was perfect for this website.)"

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masklinn
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
It’s fine on iPhone and iPad, which are mobile.
masklinn
It’s certainly not fine on iphone. The font renders but is very hard to read and the aspect ratio is awful.
leonmoonen
“Reader View” solves the horrible font choice...
scns
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.
petee
I agree, font is squished, and for some reason performance is terrible, causes Opera (chrome) to freeze up on refocusing the tab
kroltan
It has an autoplaying game, given the performance it's likely a full emulator for the computer in question.
pzh
Give it about 40 years, and he’ll fix it.
nguyenkien
Even on PC. End up copy to text editor
maybeOneDay
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
lelanthran
Thank god! I thought my keyboard was acting up.
JoeAltmaier
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.
brador
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.