Notices by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club), page 2

or you could do what Pipeworks did in a couple Wii games:

don't bother stripping the debugging symbols, because the final DOL file won't contain them anyway!

then just accidentally ship the entire ELF binary next to the DOL binary because you messed up your batch files

the CD-ROM really made that a reality. Then we could accidentally ship all the debug symbols in an early build sent off to pc gamer

the one downside to reverse engineering middle-era DOS games is that they're still on floppy disks, which means no one accidentally ships the whole debug symbols. every kilobyte is precious here!

there's still time for IBM to get back in the game and release the PS/3

I'm like 90% sure that this game actually matches building types to what sorts of hints it gives you, and I'm also like 90% sure that this should have been obvious to me long ago

arg the way this game does travel can be really annoying
if you are in New Delhi and need to go to the USSR, but misclick on Oslo instead of Moscow, you can't just fly to Moscow from Oslo. You have to go back to New Delhi first

Idly playing Where in the USA is Carman Sandiego, and found an unexpected example of "things that have changed since 1990": The IMAGE for New Hampshire!
It's the Old Man of the Mountain, which collapsed in 2004.

I got halfway to googling this hint before remembering I'M FROM THERE (that state, at least. I'm from the other end of it)

could this still be relevant to my x86 code? WHO KNOWS?

fun fact about Prince of Persia (which I am doing research on because of how it reuses code from Carmen or vice versa):

A copy of it leaked with symbols included, but it's not the most normal version you can imagine... it's the mac port recompiled for MIPS.

I think all I'd be able to get from it is some canonical names of library functions

idea for debugging feature for dosbox:
press a button, then for the next X seonds, all modifications to the display memory are recorded along with the backtrace of what code changed it. So you could see a button get drawn, and check what code did that.

tried bindiff: it doesn't like carmen.exe and binexport really doesn't like PRINCE.EXE, so that's a dead end for now

the original PC ran an 8088 at 4.77mhz, which DOSBox emulates as 240 cycles.

so this is approximately equivalent to a half-megahertz PC

right now I'm doing this sorta manually by running dosbox with cycles=30 and watching it draw in real time

do you have enough cursors, queen of mice?

I have successfully extracted the first image from the game, using the ported SDLPoP compression code!

1 compression method down, 3 to go.

Tokyo: fine.
Sydney: fine.
Singapore: fine.
San Marino: fine.
Rome: PYTHON CRASHED

Here's the image: Tokyo!

Rome is the first city in that list that uses the LZG_UD compression format, rather than the LZG_LR format. that's why it's crashing.