>I just continued biting my way through the Outlaw source.
>Sometimes it gets so weird...
>I'd even assume David Crane does stuff just to confuse poor
>reverse-engineering guys like me... or is he just filling up the ROM
>with useless instructions, once he's done with the game?
>
>For example, what do you think about this:
>
>LDY #$01
>STY tempVar
>TXA
>EOR tempVar
>TAY
My offhand guess would be that the EOR used to be a BIT instruction but
was later changed to EOR. You can't BIT an immediate number; it has to be
a memory location. He changed it at some late point in development, and
didn't want to deal with having the other code move around -- perhaps had
some hardcoded addresses, or just didn't want to deal with having the page
boundaries move.
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