An unexpected command palette

When I linked to the troubled New York City/Big Apple Game, at the very bottom I mentioned a web emulator of Atari I just discovered, called A8 Web. What was particularly interesting about this emulator that I haven’t seen before, is that it came equipped with a ⌘K command palette: I didn’t expect this kind of a professional UI in such a small piece of software, but I immediately embraced it – it not only gave access to various expected commands like “mute audio” or “resume emulation,” but also allowed to simulate all of the inputs. One of the challenges with emulation is that keyboards never match, special buttons like Start or Select don’t exist, and joysticks might not be connected. That might leave you truly stuck when the key absolutely need to keep going simply isn’t something you can press. Here, the creator thoughtfully adding all of those inputs to the command palette got me unstuck quickly. I am generally a big fan of command palettes as a UI layer underneath more visible…

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