RE: Aliens - update...

From: Clay Cowgill <ClayC_at_diamondmm.com>
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 12:51:35 EST

I've always been mystified by how ASCII source can show up in ROM
images. I guess since all my stuff writes source output to a fresh file
it'd hard to get memory "leftovers"...

The source is little bits and pieces of 6502 assembly-- stuff like "LDA
LANDERR ; LANDER ROTATION" and whatnot.

-Clay

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>
> "It also appears to have been
> related to Lunar Lander somehow 'cause it appears there's chunks of
> Lunar Lander source code in the ROMs. Go figure."
>
> It was probably left over in the pdp11's build memory from another
> assembly.
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 18 11:51:52 1999

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