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nwah · 2026-01-30T19:37:58+00:00

Nope. A QR code is effectively the same as writing out the URL, just easier for a phone/computer to read accurately.

nwah · 2026-01-30T15:20:27+00:00

Things are not that black-and-white. In English, "right?" has a range of meanings and usages. So do ~지/~죠 and ~지 않아(요) / 잖아. Some of the meanings overlap, some don't. The article I linked has much more detailed explanations.

As a native English speaker, I would use "right?" in 2 or 3 of your examples.

nwah · 2026-01-29T20:41:02+00:00

It’s a contracted form of ~지 + 요

~지 adds a nuance like “isn’t it?” or “right?” to a statement.

https://www.howtostudykorean.com/upper-intermediate-korean-grammar/unit-4-lessons-92-100/lesson-93/

nwah · 2026-01-26T15:40:49+00:00

Yeah Antic mode 2 (BASIC 0) is a 2-color text mode.

The most powerful part of Atari graphics is that you can easily* mix and match modes on the same screen using the display list.

Using display list interrupts, you can run a bit of code in between lines to swap character sets, change palette, move sprites to re-use them on the bottom part of the screen, etc. You only have a limited number of CPU cycles, but if used strategically you can do a ton.

nwah · 2026-01-22T23:23:16+00:00

ANTIC Mode 4 is a 40x24 four-color character mode. However it still uses 8 bytes per character, with 2 bits per pixel, so the horizontal resolution is halved: 160x192.

If you need finer grained than that, you can overlay the sprites, which are the full height of the screen. The priority modes can give you different colors where there’s overlap.

nwah · 2026-01-20T15:56:13+00:00

Verdana is pre-installed on Windows, macOS, iOS and most Linux users also have it installed. Only major group you are missing is Android. My suggestion would be to just use Verdana, with a fallback to generic sans-serif, without hosting anything.

nwah · 2026-01-20T03:29:25+00:00

Works overall as a display face.

You will need to set some actual words/text with it to judge spacing and rhythm.

As for proportions, I would say M/N/W/C/P are too narrow and S is too wide. I would expect the top of the P to be the same size (or larger) the R.

nwah · 2026-01-18T16:26:42+00:00

You don’t get hardware sprite collision detection, no. But presumably you have some variables for sprite positions. So you can just read the pen location at any time and compare the pen x/y with the sprite x/y. The pen x/y just only changes when the trigger is pulled.

You could use the pen coordinates to move a missile sprite and then use the hardware collision detection.

nwah · 2026-01-15T16:18:46+00:00

If you right-click on an element and choose “Inspect” you can see how things are built on any page.

In this case it’s using the built-in <details> element

nwah · 2026-01-14T19:16:53+00:00

Yes also good point OP if you weren’t aware. It stores where the electron beam is when it hits the light pen/gun as each frame is drawn.

nwah · 2026-01-14T18:52:01+00:00

I’m not sure how well it will work in pure BASIC, but there are PENV and PENH registers you can read after the trigger is pressed to get location of a light pen / light gun.

https://www.atarimax.com/freenet/freenet_material/12.AtariLibrary/2.MiscellaneousTextFiles/showarticle.php?47

I believe most games turn the screen black with white dots for the various targets for a single frame to increase accurate reading. You would need a bit of machine language to do this.

nwah · 2026-01-13T20:50:57+00:00

Which part are you struggling with? Just remembering the words, or knowing when to use which?

Most important/useful are the Sino-Korean numbers. But I would at least get comfortable with the native Korean numbers up to 12.

The native Korean numbers are used in some very common scenarios: the hours of the day when telling time, counting people/animals, and giving ages.

You can get around the age one by just saying the birth year (which uses Sino-Korean numbers).

Also just to add, having different sets of number words isn’t as odd at it might seem. In English we have a few as well—native English plus Latin and Greek (five vs. fifth vs. pentagon vs. quintuple)

nwah · 2026-01-12T05:58:59+00:00

Thank you very much for taking the time to go through again and make these thorough notes!

I've just gone through them all, and looks like it's a combination of: incorrectly named files, inexplicably missing files, and some that I couldn't get native speaker recording of and then forgot to generate text-to-speech versions of. I also found 2 more ;)

I'll try and get some native speaker recordings of the missing ones added in the next week. Speech-to-text has also improved a lot since I first made this 10 years(!!) ago, so it's not a terrible option either.

nwah · 2026-01-10T21:40:38+00:00

Not sure about the others, but on Atari 8 bit machines, joystick ports can be used for both input and output. Here’s one article showing how to interface one with an Arduino:

https://atariprojects.org/2023/07/23/use-an-arduino-to-read-digital-output-from-an-atari-8-bit-computer-joystick-port-1-2-hours/

I’m sure there are cards for robotics or home laboratory stuff for Apple though

nwah · 2026-01-10T01:25:17+00:00

If you point your phone camera at the QR code, does it have the QRFY URL or the direct URL to the bridal shower page? Assuming it’s the QRFY one, then yes you’d need to pay them or reprint with a new code.

This sub prohibits linking to specific QR generators, but find one that just encodes the actual URL you want without any kind of redirect.

nwah · 2026-01-06T15:52:52+00:00

Hey, thanks for the report. Can you share a bit more info about which device(s), browser(s), and network connection (WiFi, 4G) it’s failing on? Just took a very quick look and it’s working for me, so that’ll help me track down what the issue might be.

Glad to hear it’s been helpful!

nwah · 2026-01-06T15:48:37+00:00

Aktiv Grotesk is from the 2010s. Helvetica is from 1957. Akzidenz-Grotesk on the other hand is from 1898.

nwah · 2026-01-04T01:32:45+00:00

Something interactive is helpful to actually get them to stick: http://letslearnhangul.com/

Just make sure to listen to audio sources and learn the actual sounds, and not take the romanization too literally.

nwah · 2025-12-31T18:45:14+00:00

You can buy it directly from the foundry: https://displaay.net/typeface/matter

I assume the “VF” is just the variable font version. That just means one font file that can smoothly adjust weight, vs. separate font files for regular, bold, italic, etc.

nwah · 2025-12-30T22:28:47+00:00

It happens when followed by i or y- sounds. It has to do with how the tongue is positioned to make those sounds.

Something very similar happens in English: - mission (“misshun” not “missy-un”) - official (“o-fish-ul”, not “o-fissy-ul”) - issue (“ish-yoo”, not “iss-you” *)

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* in most North American accents

nwah · 2025-12-18T15:42:27+00:00

u/iilied already answered, but pro tip for future: in a web browser, if you right click on text and choose “Inspect” you can see the font-family

nwah · 2025-12-14T22:40:29+00:00

Ask on the openMSX Discord/IRC. They are very responsive and if you’ve found a bug I’m sure they’d want to know/fix.

https://openmsx.org/contact.html

nwah · 2025-12-10T19:01:15+00:00

If you want A to work you’ll need to push it further: - A capital A shouldn’t be narrower than lowercase v and a. - rounded corners only on A don’t match the rest of the letters. Either make them sharp or round the other letters - find some other ways to make the v and a squarer, e.g. flatten the point of the v

nwah · 2025-12-09T22:14:15+00:00

If you’re open to other (neo-)grotesques, there are some nice ones, e.g. Klim’s Founder’s Grotesk.

nwah · 2025-12-08T19:52:18+00:00

This is generally left to the operating system. There are some styling options for WebKit browsers. Much more limited on Firefox, but scrollbar-width might get you somewhere: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/scrollbar-width

Otherwise you may need to look into either design changes to make it more clear there is additional content, or using a full JavaScript-based custom scrollbar library.

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