: Wrong tense. I disassembled it years ago, using MacNosy on a G3 booted into
: MacOS 8.6. I finally got my fill of trying to follow all the twists and
: turns in MacNosy, and had it output what it had to a plain text file,
: which I now peruse in BBEdit. I keep notes in NoteBook. That combination
: is a real pleasure to work in.
: I fiddle with the disassembly in my spare time, adding comments as I figure
: things out. The notebook in a separate window helps me keep track of
: record layouts and keep symbol names consistent. Every time I figure out
: what a field does, I give it a name, record that in the notebook, then
: find every use of it in BBEdit and make the name consistent.
: I recently wrote a small C++ app to expand the data initialization code from
: the original codefile. (It won't run on my Intel iMac, but Resource
: Manager still works.) That helps me figure out what the code is doing.
: (For example, the code to assign wall images after rebuilding the
: Labyrinth didn't make any sense until I could actually see the tables that
: were driving the process.)
: Looking at the unpacked data is also the only way to learn some of the traits
: of the various monsters. I now know, for example, that the Purple Barney
: on Warning Earthquake Zone is truly invulnerable. Nothing hurts him. Not
: bullets. Not crystals. Nothing. (The Venomous Oozes on the same level are
: also invulnerable. The (in)vulnerability of the Dreaming God is controlled
: by code, not by the table.)
