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I finally decided to take the matter into my own hands. I looked for IBM PC OEM fonts [2] and similar ones [3], stored the bitmaps as integer arrays within my code [2], and used them to render each character cell by cell. I am very happy with the results.

It was a childhood dream of mine to write a game like this, but I did not have sufficient access to computers as a child. So I could fulfil this dream only as an adult, a few years ago. The implementation is very simple, and everything on the canvas, including the text, is drawn using fillRect().

By the way, if you happen to do something similar, I have made all the bitmaps available as integer arrays in a separate, standalone project [5].

[1] https://susam.net/invaders.html

[2] https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

[3] https://www.dafont.com/modern-dos.font

[4] https://codeberg.org/susam/invaders/src/branch/main/invaders...

[5] https://codeberg.org/susam/pcface#readme

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https://blogroll.org/

https://blogs.hn/ (by @surprisetalk)

https://hnpwd.github.io/ (I am one of the maintainers)

https://indieblog.page/ (by @splitbrain)

https://kagi.com/smallweb/ (by @freediver)

https://marginalia-search.com/ (by @marginalia_nu)

https://minifeed.net/ (by @freetonik)

https://susam.net/wander/ (I developed this)

https://text.blogosphere.app/ (announced by @ramkarthikk on 'Show HN' yesterday)

https://wiby.me/

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Dark Side of the Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e000193/

Hello World: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/

On images-assets.nasa.gov, we can find the 5567x3712 resolution versions of these pictures:

Dark Side of the Earth: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e00...

Hello World: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e00...

But Hans's post uses user-mode emulation with qemu-mips, which avoids having to set up a whole big-endian system in QEMU. It is a very interesting approach I was unaware of. I'm pretty sure qemu-mips was available back in 2010, but I'm not sure if the gcc-mips-linux-gnu cross-compiler was readily available back then. I suspect my PPC-based solution might have been the only convenient way to solve this problem at the time.

Thanks for sharing it here. It was nice to go down memory lane and also learn a new way to solve the same problem.

[1] https://susam.net/big-endian-on-little-endian.html

By the way, some minor issues I found:

1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The last page the UI lets me navigate to is https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-12 which shows blogs up to names starting with 'M'. I can reach page 13 by manually editing the URL to https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-13 which shows two blogs starting with 'N'. However, pages 14 and beyond just load the home page. Surely there are more blogs with names starting with 'O', 'P', etc.?

2. The modern version at https://blogosphere.app/ uses infinite scroll, which makes it impossible to reach the footer. Each time I scroll down, more content loads and pushes the footer further away. I was only able to view the footer by modifying the DOM in the browser's developer tools. It would be nice if there were a straightforward way to access the footer.

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The section https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#customise-your-console describes how someone setting their own /wander URL can customise how their console looks and behaves. I have seen a few consoles already using this feature to change their theme.

So while I will keep my console as it is, because that is how I prefer it, with large buttons occupying the full header width, others who prefer a different layout can do so by adding custom CSS as described in the link above.

To be honest, I resisted adopting ES6 features for quite a long time because I was concerned about exactly this kind of situation, where a modern feature might not work in an older browser that is still in use. However, in 2022, prompted by ESLint's no-var rule [1], I began using ES6 features in my code [2]. Now I find myself wondering whether my earlier, more conservative approach to JavaScript might have been the better approach.

In any case, thank you very much for following up on this thread. It has given me something to think about.

[1] https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/no-var

[2] https://codeberg.org/susam/texme/commit/8e31dbf

Implemented in <https://codeberg.org/susam/wander/commit/f4d95fa>. Thanks again for the discussion!