Eric wrote:
> I'm not sure if this helps anything, but I spent a half-hour or so last night
>trying to reproduce anything related to it on Z26 (don't have a real Atari set
>up ATM.) I did discover that if you're holding Reset or the fire button when
>you press Select, a new game starts immediately (when you release Select). I
>don't suppose Al was doing that, though.
>
> Furthermore, which game variation you get when you do that seems somewhat
>random, probably due to exactly how long you hold Select before releasing. I
>don't know if this is related or anything at all, but I'll throw it out here.
>I glanced at the code too but couldn't figure out anything.
thanks for spending the time! And it's good tht you're trying oddball cases
to look to get into the previous described "won't select" state. Obviously,
I'm less concerned about little glitches most likely to emerge when someone
is trying to hack around with the system (like taking apart atari joysticks
so you can press up and down at the same time in Combat) than ensuring
behvaior is as expected for "normal" usage, but still, you can't assume
that all usage will be "normal". Eric being the case in point. ;-)
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