The boards go large print: every menu, every pitch, every key in the manual, sized up to read

2026-08-02FEATURE CONTROLS

The boards go large print: every menu, every pitch, every key in the manual, sized up to read 7f732c9

The Hornet Bay main menu with its items now set in noticeably larger type — FLIGHT SCHOOL, FREE FLIGHT, MISSIONS, the log, the store links and the day/weather toggles all reading clean

Hot on the heels of the briefing room’s large-print refit, the rest of the squadron’s paperwork follows. The main menu, the flight school syllabus, the mission board and the flight manual were all set in small type that made you lean into the monitor — the same complaint, the same fix.

Main menu. Every item on the board is up from 14 to 17 pixels — FLIGHT SCHOOL, FREE FLIGHT, MISSIONS, the log, the toggles — with the pilot record and the key hints underneath bumped to match.
Flight school & missions. Sortie titles ride at the same 17, and everything under them grew with it: the one-line pitch on each sortie, the type/maneuver chips, the difficulty badges, the course headers and the unlock notices. The whole board scans the way a ready-room board should — from the back of the room.
Flight manual. The controls grid goes from 13 to 16 pixels with a wider key column, so the bind and what it does are both readable without squinting. Every key, every mount, every camera trick.

The flight school syllabus with larger sortie titles, chips and descriptions — The syllabus — titles, chips and pitches all sized up.

The flight manual controls grid in larger type — The manual — every bind legible at arm’s length.

The list boards still scroll when they run long — the RETURN button stays pinned to the top, as always — but what’s on the glass now reads the way the Amiga original played on a living-room TV: big, bright, and impossible to misread. — HB