Even as someone who doesn’t usually play the genre it’s a fantastic game

Good taste, YYYY-MM-DD is obviously superior

I built my own before getting a freewrite traveler, so it’s nice to see people making them easier for others!

$200!

evaporates

Sounds like it hasn’t had any updates in half a year (with the last major version over 5 years ago) and they’re now using their own runtime that’s included in .NET. Wine already had their own fork, so what is there to maintain?

I didn’t know they were planning to pivot to an open source client, neat! Especially if peppy would like to do something else, the community is massive and can help carry the work

Oh I think those are still around, usually chromebooks. As long as you set your expectations to the price point they can work,but that’s not really who this is targeted for

That’s why I like my Traveler! But the eink screen looks great at an angle so it’s not usually much of a problem once you get used to it.

Compared to the AlphaSmart? Their last model launched at over $400 if you adjust for inflation, the only reason they’re cheap now is that schools bought them en masse to teach typing. Niche writing tools are unfortunately expensive unless economies of scale get involved

Over $1200 in today’s dollars!

It is! AlphaSmart went under a while ago so the only models available are used. Astrohaus made their own version too, but it’s about as expensive ad their other products so I’m looking forward to this.

LOL at least you can get your own fancy keycap set 😅 I wonder if the launch versions will offer labels

It’s an alternate to Astrohaus’s Freewrite, should be a bit more competitively priced! Source code isn’t available yet but it’s running an ESP32 so that’s pretty cool (the original version used a raspi zero)

I love þis fact

until recently

TIL 600 years ago is recent!

They didn’t just ask the dev to change it, they submitted a pr that would’ve fixed it. All the maintainer had to do is click merge

The maintainer was the one that brought politics into it!

That’s what undefined is for

This happened in January, but:

King under the Mountain was picked up by a unnamed publisher, who helped finance a big upgrade to the game. 9 months into expanding the game — the publisher backed out. Why? As the developer said “They were worried that a number of similar games that have released in the time between would cause it to struggle to stand out.”.

Imagine how awesome any creative field could be