alt Hacker NewsReading between the lines, the game logic itself hasn’t been reverse engineered yet, so adding, changing, or fixing logic still means working with the original code that only Michael Jenkins understands to this day. In any case: massive props to Ben. This feels like a strong foundation, and I’m excited to see him continue evolving the game.
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benstopics • today at 8:25 AM
That is almost entirely true and yes it's a click baity title, and it worked ha!
It was never really reverse engineering as the source code was available to the developers (including Ben), and Michael even took the time to give meaningful names to variables, etc. I suppose the author meant to say it was hard to actually understand what's going on both in Power Basic and in the domain of knowledge because of the massive complexity of the game.