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Re: How did Exolon work?

From spike1@freenet.co.uk
Newsgroups comp.sys.sinclair
Subject Re: How did Exolon work?
Date 2013-03-11 14:30 +0000
Organization The league against squirrels
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And verily, didst bit-naughty@hotmail.com hastily babble thusly:
> I'm curious as to how each screen is stored (been a while since I played
> it).  i.e.  how did Raffaele Cecco subvert data structures, as taught in
> Computer Science, for his own benefit?  :) Anybody here have any pointers?

You might get some insight if you read "Cecco's log" from old issues of
crash...

There's more than one way to do that kinda thing, any one of which would've
probably worked equally well for storing screens.

Only other option would be to get your hands on a disassembler and figure it
out for yourself.
:)

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How did Exolon work? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2013-03-11 00:48 -0700
  Re: How did Exolon work? spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2013-03-11 14:30 +0000

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