Saturday, June 27, 2015

Christian Gingras - the man who fixed Robotron

This is a cool story about how Robotron was disassembled, analyzed, and fixed by a genius hacker. Now that is dedication.

per Eugene Jarvis- Around 1987 a kid in Canada named Christian Gingras completely analyzed the machine code in the ROMS and synthesized an entire Robotron source listing from the Roms. He then sent a list of 7 bugs he found in the game just by reading the code, and we fixed them. One of them was the infamous diagonal shot crash bug!

http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christiangingras/

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