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- SWITCH.INC:
High level switches for the program
Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: "What are all those funny characters in the source code?"
A: I wrote the original source code using DOS characters, with characters drawing borders/boxes in
comments in the source code. In the interests of posterity, I have left the code intact as it was.
Q: "Why didn't you use STRUCs or ENUMs" in your ASM source?
A: Simply because I didn't know about them at the time. I wish I did. There's a InternalDocumentation
folder that I've included in the repository that details what some of the magic numbers appearing
through the code might mean.
Q: "Flow in some functions seems to jump all over the place. Why?"
A: The original code was compatible all the way back to an 8086 machine. 8086 would allow you to do
conditional jumps only within +/-128 bytes, so I spent too much time shuffling code around to meet
this restriction. When I shifted away from this 8086 restriction, I never went back to update the
code that was mutilated by it.
 
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