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Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

This is all real interesting stuff, thanks to everyone who's contributing.

I mean, all I can say about MIPS is that the annoying rabbit in Super Mario 64 is named after it.

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Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

Going west from brown takes you to the home quadrant, but going back through the sector exit (now east) takes you to the red quadrant. That doesn't make any sense.

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

While your explanations are clear, it's all still deep magic to me. It must've taken a lot of trial and error to come up with all of those tricks.

What I do wonder is how the programming went back in those days. Did they write in some higher level language and compile that to the Atari instructions or did they write those instructions directly? Did they have anything resembling modern debugging tools?

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

So, did you make up the colors/names of the sectors yourself?

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