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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:06:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   me: I'm gonna start on hacking another DOS game. Hopefully it won't be another one with horrible memory mapping problems

   Ghidra: STRYKER.EXE loaded. 71 CODE segments found

   me: WHAT THE FUCK

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:12:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it was compiled with Turbo-C, either 1.5 or 2.0

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:14:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Je ne suis pas goth

     @jenesuispasgoth A BIT

     these aren't overlays, though, they're loaded all at the same time. but ghidra is really bad at 16-bit addressing so it's going to get so horribly confused

   • Je ne suis pas goth (jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:14:51 JST Je ne suis pas goth

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     @foone are you saying you dislike segment overlays?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:21:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Je ne suis pas goth

     @jenesuispasgoth they would be, if ghidra could handle 16bit addressing properly!

   • Je ne suis pas goth (jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:21:09 JST Je ne suis pas goth

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     @foone ah, if there's no overlay, then things are so much easier, aren't they? 😬

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 21:49:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm not sure if this compiler was inline-happy, if the programmer was macro happy, or if they just loved copy-pastin'

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:21:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Major Stryker and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure both have a funny bug in their archive format:

     they compare 11 characters of the filename when trying to find a named subfile.

     That should be fine, right? DOS filenames are 8.3, right?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:22:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     WRONG, THEY FORGOT THE DOT

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:22:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so if you have FILENAME.001 and FILENAME.002, the game can't tell them apart