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The weird world of retro game archaeology - it's genuinely fascinating.

Maybe I should pop in an original keyset as an option - I think the original uses the caps key maybe. I'm pretty sure it's weird on a modern keyboard layout. I think the version on…

It's actually in the commented original disassembly and used in some of the original BBC documentation / writing. Which is how it ended up here - the article is a mix of things I w…

For what its worth the article was a mix of things I wrote and things I asked an AI to generate from the notes I'd accumulated from the archaeology. My focus was on the recreation …

Managed to find some screenshots. https://www.jamesdrandall.com/old-thrust/1.png https://www.jamesdrandall.com/old-thrust/2.png https://www.jamesdrandall.com/old-thrust/3.png

I think it was Opus but can't remember the version. Would have been whatever was available in Claude Code in February. Managed to find some screenshots. It did work but gravity was…

Yeah. Different is the word. In many ways it’s just another abstraction but we’re not machines and this, to me at least, just gives a very different feel.

If you bothered to read it you’d find that I am embracing the tools and I still feel there is craft. It’s just different. But snark away. It’s lazy. And yes it is so damn tedious.

Long time lurker first time contributor. I recently released an iOS app and thought sales stats etc. might be of interest to other iOS developers. Any questions feel free to ask.