On 2014-02-25 at 19:07:51, Bil Herd (bherd@mercury-cg.com) wrote: > First we knew that I had blown it was the game "Escape from Fractalus”. I think it was called “Rescue on Fractalus”, wasn’t it? ;-) It was the only software title I bought along with my 64 after I couldn’t find the 128 in any German store in the autumn of ’85 :-) > I > stuck an analyzer on it and it was clear that someone had wanted > to start > at the highest VIC register and initialize using an index x instruction > while decrementing to 0. Instead it started at the highest register > and > went the wrong way writing garbage to all of the $30-ff space until > it wrapped into the part it meant to. A very good example of what I meant writing “out of negligence, ignorance or mistake that went unnoticed due to lack of side-effects” ;-) > So in short I didn't anticipate someone writing garbage to reserved > space > due to a mistake in their programming, or real shoddy methodology. -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-02-25 20:00:45
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