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While I'm impressed at the actual emulator, it does rather feel like someone turned on literally every animation and special effect their web framework had to offer.

I like a bit of juice with my product but this feels like it's gone through a hydraulic press!



HAH, that's a great way to put it.

For me it was the animated coach marks popping up with such amazingly-contextual information nuggets as:

> Step 1: Write your code in the editor


Hey, yes, the initial tutorial can feel a bit too hand-holding. However, it is only one-time and should not reappear once done.

It is intentionally so basic, as we wanted to make sure that any user, including those who have never written any assembly code before , can get a gist of it at the start.

That said, the ` Step 1: Write your code in the editor ` might be a bit overkill :smile:

If you have any suggestions on how we can improve the tutorial so new-comers can find it useful, and at the same time, it is not annoying, we would be very happy to hear it in a github issue.

Thanks!


Hey, Sorry about that! Maybe we should have dialed the reactive stuff down a bit! On a side note, if you'd prefer a no-gui setup, this also as a commandline based emulator github.com/YJDoc2/8086-Emulator/ . (Not that this is any excuse for the we ui)


It's impressive -- but it makes me feel seasick. I hope it landed some of you a nice webdev job :)




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