Aw: Re: [stella] Outlaw is driving me nuts / Coding fun with David Crane

Subject: Aw: Re: [stella] Outlaw is driving me nuts / Coding fun with David Crane
From: cybergoth@xxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:30:13 +0200 (CEST)
Hi Erik!

> 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.

Might be, yes. Maybe after he was finished, he just left 
everything as is, without caring about cleaning or 
optimizing the source anymore. 

Hm...I think Gunfight might end up like this too :-)

Greetings,
     Manuel



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