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Stay on Target: Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs

Posted in Programming, Software, Software Engineering on October 9th, 2008 by Doug – Be the first to comment

This story is so great that I had to link to it. Go read it now.

Stay on Target: Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs.

As soon as they started explaining how missiles were added to the game, I knew where this was going. I didn’t expect the result to be so entertaining and interesting. It’s certainly a spectacular bug.

It also reminded me of my early programming days in high school when I learned that you could crash Windows 95 by doing something similar to this.

char far *p = 0;
while(1)
    *p++ = 0;

I remember being disappointed when this didn’t work in Windows 98.