s&box

7 changes in this update

HALO, on the SCREEN tab. Bright things bleed into the dark around them, the way a phosphor too far up its curve spills across the glass.
Anything that already glowed is now lit past what the screen can actually show, and the bleed comes from that rather than from a second copy of the text drawn wider.
Body text is deliberately left where it was, so the things worth looking at glow and the small print stays sharp.

CHROMATIC ABERRATION used to draw every letter a second time in red and a third in cyan. It now pulls the whole picture apart the way a lens does, so it reaches the panels and their edges and not only the text.
The fringe grows towards the corners and leaves the middle of the screen alone, which is what a curved tube actually does.
Every tube keeps its own colours under HALO, so a green screen glows green instead of drifting towards amber.
Both effects still start switched off, and TURN THE TUBE OFF still clears them.

The Runaway 1.1.2 28 August 2026

15 changes in this update

MARKET DEPTH on a company with almost nothing left in its pool used to report both sides matched and no push, which is not what an empty ladder means.
It now says there is less than a whole share at every step, and it still measures which way the interest leans.
Depth is counted in fractions of a share behind the scenes, so a company with a thin pool gets the same push a fat one does instead of quietly getting none.
A quote for a single share said "1 shares", and a quote for a big one ran the share count together without its separators.

A company's pool is pulled back toward the number of shares rats have not bought, and that pull was rounded down to nothing whenever the gap was under 200 shares.
The drift was rounded down as well, so a pool of ten lost a whole share to a tick that was asking for a hundredth of a percent, and gained nothing back on the tick that went the other way.
RAT sat on ten shares against a target of 209 for 99 ticks running: down one, up one, down one, at $3,501 a share on a company that opened at $2.
That leak was never only RAT. It takes up to a share a tick from any company with a small pool, which is most of the ones rats have floated themselves.
And a tick that asked for no movement at all skipped the walk home entirely, so a company on its way back stalled every time the noise landed on nothing.
So buying a small pool up worked exactly as it should and the walk back down never happened. Nothing was rigged in your favour; the road home was closed.
The pull is now at least one share whenever there is a gap, and the drift rounds to the nearest share instead of always down.
A pool that has been bought out now climbs back to where it belongs at a share a tick, so a company finds its way home over about a day.
If you bought RAT while it was stuck up there, the price coming back down is the fix arriving and not a second fault. Your shares are marked at what the pool will pay for them, and on the way home that is well under what you paid.
Separately, the upward trend was taking its half a percent a day out of the whole company instead of out of the shares still in the pool, so a tightly held company would have had its target eaten down to a single share in about nine days.
The trend now takes its rate out of the shares left in the pool and can never reach the shares rats own.

The Founder's Share 1.1.1 23 August 2026

3 changes in this update

FLOAT called the whole seed recoverable by selling, when selling everything you hold returns what your own shares are worth, which the line above it already said.
That line now shows the seed left in the pool behind the shares you did not keep, so the three figures account for exactly what floating costs you.
The claim got worse the less you kept: at a 5 percent stake it offered $10,000 recoverable against the $500 you could really sell for.

Supply and Demand 1.1 23 August 2026

30 changes in this update

MARKET DEPTH on every company: how many shares want in under the current price, and how many want out above it.
Whatever the two sides do not match by leans on the price, so a company in demand climbs and a company being sold slides.
Interest close to the price counts for more than interest far away from it, the way it does on a real board.
Depth is redrawn every five minutes, so a company can sit in demand for hours and then turn.
You still buy and sell straight into the pool. There is no queue, and nothing has to take the other side of your trade.
Market depth was asked for by Skibidi Rizzler w/ The Big Gyatt
The vault deals two longer terms, 14 days and 30 days, and a month pays one percent a day.

The market trends upward over time instead of oscillating around the price it opened at.
The reversion target itself now climbs, which is what makes it a trend rather than a bias fighting a pull.
A founder's own stake is now marked at what the pool would pay for it, not at the opening price, on every screen that quotes it.
A founder's cost basis is recorded at what they actually paid, so the average price on a company you floated is right.
The most of a company a founder may keep on a float went from 50% to 90%.
The company page has been rebuilt: the ticker, the name and the price now share one line instead of stacking down the screen.
The figures that were buried in a list of eight rows are a labelled strip across the top, so market cap, volume, the pool, the range and the risk read at a glance.
The column beside the chart opens on the depth now, and your own position sits above the holder list rather than under it.
YOU vs THE MARKET is two clean lines instead of a filled band, so it is obvious which one is you and which one is the market.
A company's price chart is a line over a faint fill rather than a solid block, so the shape of the day is readable.
The chart legend names all three states, and the zero line is visible again.
Taking a vault deposit out early no longer wipes the interest. You keep the rate of the longest term you actually served, so a week broken after three days pays the three day rate.
Which means a long term is never worse than a short one held the same time, and picking the wrong one costs you the difference instead of everything.
The vault screen says all of this where you decide, instead of only on the help page.
A deposit's TAKE button now shows what it pays if you take it right now.
Contracts that count trades now ask that a trade be worth something. Ten of the sixteen counted trades, companies or standing orders without ever looking at the size, so a single share cleared any of them.
The floor is $100 and every contract that reads it says so in its own description, so the number on screen changes when the floor does.
The trend, the founder average price and the founder cap were all raised by Skibidi Rizzler w/ The Big Gyatt

The feedback box takes more than one line, wraps, scrolls, and grows to fit what you have written.
Reported, from inside the broken box, by Skibidi Rizzler w/ The Big Gyatt
TODAY in the purse is measured from the server's own midnight mark instead of a number the terminal remembered. It used to compare against a figure the machine had stored, so after a wipe or an adjustment it quoted a change against money that no longer existed until midnight came round.
Fjord Motor Cheese held one price for four hours at a stretch and then jumped 7.7 percent, because at 13 cents a single cent was 7.7 percent of its price.
It has had a ten for one reverse split, so it now moves in the same detail every other company does. Nobody held any, so no position changed.

Opening Bell 1.0.0 9 August 2026

30 changes in this update

Over 120 companies trade, each with a sector, a rated risk and a price of its own.
Prices move every tick on their own, and nobody sets them by hand.
Buy and sell straight into the pool, so there is never a wait for someone to take the other side.
Standing orders sit on the market and fill while you are gone.
The market map shows the whole board at once, and the index tracks it as one number.
The wire breaks stories on companies before they land, and not all of them are true.
DEVELOPING shows what is coming, the tape shows what actually happened.
The book takes bets on whether a story lands, and the winning side splits the losing pot.
The rake comes off the losers only, so a winning call never comes back smaller than it went on.
Float your own company, name it, pick the ticker and keep a founder's stake.
Half of every fee paid on a company stops in its treasury and is swept out to its holders.
The vault locks cash for a fixed term at a rate agreed the day you agree it.
Longer vault terms pay more per day, and locked money still counts toward your net worth.
The desk lends against the shares you hold, with interest running daily.
Fall far enough behind at the desk and it sells you out, taking your cash first.
Ten tables in the back room: coinflip, dice, slots, roulette, plinko, mines, higher or lower, crash, blackjack and the counter-offer.
Every table publishes its own edge and its own numbers, and the only secret is the roll.
Walk away from a table mid hand and it pays out what it owed you a week later.
A daily draw pays more every day you come back, climbing for thirty days.
Three daily contracts and two weekly ones pay for playing the exchange rather than grinding it.
New rats pay no fees for their first week and arrive with a position already open.
Twenty two awards, from your first trade to ten million in net worth, and how rare each one is is published.
Wear any award you have earned as a title beside your name.
Leaderboards rank by net worth and by what you gained this week.
Seasons freeze the final placing, and a trophy stays on your profile for good.
Say something on any company, with what you hold shown next to your name.
Twenty seven phosphor tubes to run the screen in, from cold green through to full amber.
Text size, readability and interface scale, all separate and all remembered.
Eight music beds played by the same chip, each reacting to how busy the board is.
Custom cursors, a CRT overlay and a boot sequence worth watching once.

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