Not an expert but since they didn't plan on actually booting an OS, perhaps they didn't need the partition table so those 64 bytes could go toward more instructions for solitaire.
Very little information on the site -- how does this work? Presumably by storing the contents of every Reddit comment made since Decomment's creation and serving them up on demand? I imagine once you delete a comment on Reddit it's no longer available via the API or by scraping the site, but I was hoping something more interesting was going on than just storing comments in a separate database before they are deleted.
This looks great, I'll definitely be doing some experimenting! Any way to save the output to an audio file when you're done rather than just hearing it through Alda?
Author here, besides the textarea at the bottom containing the source you can find a repository for it at https://github.com/rfotino/consolite-breakout. I'll add a link to the repo in the article
It uses a servo(angle) function to turn to a specified angle and a state machine to string together turns and thrusts.