I always thought the internals were encased in potting compound for these things to prevent exactly this scenario (certainly the ones I had for LightWave back in the day were)...

Copying listings from computer magazines into a ZX81 ... could never get the damn tape drive to save anything that would then reload (either a cheap tape deck, or cheap tapes)... so had no choice but to hand-code.

Also, didn't have the cash to go buy games from the local computer store so this was the next best thing...

This and a Z80 assembler book to speed up a bit code because the basic was really too slow to do anything (had the 16k memory extention too because 800 and something octet were not enough)

You could try the new remake of Avernum 4: Greed & Glory (first part of the second Avernum trilogy - no need to have played the first trilogy as this is entirely standalone): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3882020/Avernum_4_Greed_a...

> How hard is that to fix? Aren't they using CoPilot? Just ask it to fix the invisible icon.

They would, but no-one in the development team are able to log into their PCs due to no longer being able to locate the password icon ...

This was also similar to my first thought.

Damn. I want pizza now as well...

I believe you mean lasagna.

pizza is portable lasagna.

No, the truth of the matter is they needed Copilot in there to analyse and identify the bug for them. And then write the code to fix it...

Wasn't the Microwriter was it perchance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

I saw that demoed at Notts Micro Computing Club in the early 80s. IIRC a Microwriter was used to drive input for an Acorn Electron.

Yup. There were drivers for both the Electron and the BBC Micro (required the Model B IIRC, Model A didn't have enough spare RAM for the software)

The website needs debugging for sure.

In dark mode, the text towards the bottom of the page renders as white on white ...

This is a poor way to critique something that someone has put a lot of work into and released for free. Not everyone is a web designer, not everyone is aware of esoteric behaviours of dark mode.

No, but it is an odd trend I’ve noticed on several websites recently, and from an accessibility standpoint is something that should be addressed for any public facing site.

I don’t disagree with what is being said, I’m disagreeing about how it’s being said.

Make constructive suggestions, rather than snide comments.

nah, dogs eat far better than this ...