A83: Re: ASM High Score
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A83: Re: ASM High Score
You must have misunderstood me, I didn't say that using descriptive
labels was dumb. It helps people who are looking at the program learn
from it. I'm just saying that alot of people release their source to
help people out and forget to take out the place in the source that
tells where the source is. I think I do remember there being a high
score on TI-Files for Diamonds. Here is a snip right out of the
source code.
<snip>
highscore: .db $0000
</snip>
Becuase this was included in the source you never know if the high
scores submitted were genuine or not.
So to wrap this up, all I am saying is that if you want to have
high scores at least take the location of them out of your posted
source codes.
---David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net> wrote:
>
>
> How is using descriptive lables "dumb"? If you release your source
code,
> you aren't worried about people figuring out how it works. It would
be easy
> enough to figure it out just by looking for self modifying code,
anyway.
> And if the source code isn't released, make a copy of the file before
> sending it to the calc. Then set a high score and send it back. Use
> something like the DOS "FC" command to see where they are different,
and
> that should be where the highscore is located at. Or use your hex
editor
> and search for the initials.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Conner <timagic@yahoo.com>
> To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 6:22 PM
> Subject: Re: A83: Re: Re: Re: A89: ASM High Score Archives??
>
>
> >
> > James is right, there is no possible way to know that it would be
> >geniune. Its pretty easy to find where the highscore is hidden in
the
> >code, especially if you post the source and are dumb enough not to
> >take out the
> >highscore: .db 00h
> >
> >Jimmy
> >
> > BTW: I think I have had enough of a break and will begin
> >programming asm again. Maybe I'll make my compiler or a rpg, but who
> >knows?
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: James Matthews <matthews@tkb.att.ne.jp>
> >
> >> How would you verify the high score is genuine?
> >==
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