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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Classic:
"Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like 'EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah.' We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read 'Thank you for playing Wing Commander.'"

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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

I seem to recall that some old NES games do similar things, reading from their own game data to provide noise (for sound effects). But I can't point to a reference.

Not sound, but the comments mention Yar's Revenge for Atari 2600.

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