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Hello, author here. Thanks a lot for reading my post!

A few things to clarify:

- indeed I am now in London, but have very fond memories of life in Germany and still enjoy practicing my German

- I took a US keyboard layout to work, which made things fine except for when I was on the laptop only (some keys are different shapes as well)

- I found it amusing the comments about the German trains. I will confirm that the standard was pretty low in Australia :P (hopefully that's going to get better)

- the impracticality of 4 seats and 2 doors in the car was meant to imply that it means it's more difficult to put people in the rear seats in this configuration

- thanks for the corrections on train speeds and naming of the ground floor, I'll fix that

Let me know if there's any other corrections I should make, anything I missed or should expand on.


Hello, author here.

I actually brought a US keyboard which made life much easier. It was only ever a pain to type on the laptop's keyboard, which luckily was quite rare.


I lived in London for all of 2 weeks before this happened to me. It's pretty frequent in the Islington and Angel areas. Be careful.


> It's pretty frequent in the Islington and Angel areas

Around 50% of Islington's population are in social housing < 20% of whom work.


querySelector() will get you one element, otherwise you can use something like

Array.from(querySelectorAll('*')).forEach()

It is a little more cumbersome.


Yes, this is what I do, and I agree it's a little more cumbersome. That's why I asked ;-)


There was a DOM2Canvas library at some stage, though it wasn't perfect and it couldn't render images (for security reasons).


I recently posted about emulating the NES with JavaScript.

http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-nes-emulator-par...

Part 2 will be posted when it's done. :)

If you want to get something done much quicker, have a go at emulating the Chip-8 VM.

I also have a post, but it's less hand-holding than the first.

http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-8-emulator

Good luck!


I really like your tutorial. I been trying to learn assembly and your tutorial is really helping me put the big picture together. I hope you continue to work on making it better.


I have a heap on my plate right now but will hope to do part 2 before the end of the year. Glad you enjoyed it.


I'd like to think of myself as an experienced programmer, but I still loved your tutorial ! Brilliant ! Keep up the good work.


`contenteditable` has a lot of issues once you go past casual text editing. Sounds like it's doing something similar to Google Docs (using the browser simply as a dumb renderer, and doing a lot of the calculations/layout in JavaScript).


I'm pretty sure those flip things don't like to go backwards. So I'd assume an unlike would just freeze the number and absorb the next like.


The digits can spin independently. The computer driving the display can go "backwards" by just advancing the digits until the correct one is shown.


I wrote a post about creating a Chip-8 emulator in JavaScript, if JS is your thing.

http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-eight-emula...


I worked on a project that does this.

http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/

It's pretty simple to set up and write the widgets.


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