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March_1999
RE: Aliens - update...


From: Clay Cowgill ( )
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 11:51:35 CST


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.
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