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What exactly is one expected to do in order to solve say the very first puzzle? I can click on the grid to highlight a cell but I can't alter the contents.

If I use the buttons to run the existing program it does nothing but check if register A is zero, jumps to cell 254 and executes the error instruction.

There is something I'm missing but perhaps what I am missing is not so obvious.

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I think this is meant to be a "hello world" level puzzle. You literally just click the cells and type to edit them.

Are you sure you can't edit once you highlight a cell? If so that's probably a bug.

It's inconsistent for me - it seems to sometimes get stuck in a state where I can't update any of the cells.

Sometimes it will allow me to update the cells but whatever I type merely appends to the existing contents with no obvious way to clear an individual cell.

Press backspace to delete a character inside a cell.

That's the very first thing I tried and it wasn't working at all for me earlier. Backspace was navigating to the previous page.

Now it seems to work... sort of... sometimes it'll clear one of the characters in the cell and sometimes instead the global handler traps it and attempts to navigate to the previous page in my web history.

I believe I've corrected the backspace bug with a little help from a pull request, preventing default behavior and patching it through the same route the delete key follows. My machine doesn't have a backspace key, so I missed it during testing. Thanks for the heads up!

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