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Re:A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work by alternatetwo on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:28PM (#27216681)
This reminds me of something, too. My siblings and me often play a (now) old RTS - Battle for Middle Earth II - against AI. When these matches go on a while, sometimes it crashes when defeating an AI.

Well I looked at where it crashes, and simply nopped out the code where it crashes (it was a null pointer access I think) ... and we haven't noticed any weird effects of that so far ... one of these days I'll get around to making it an if (ptr) fix and see that happens then, but it is not this day!

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Re:A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work by eggsome on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:48AM (#27218890)
Is your hack shared anywhere? I think I hit this bug last time played with my brother.
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Re:A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work by alternatetwo on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:50AM (#27221081)
No, I don't think I ever shared it outside of personal acquaintances.

Diffing the game.dat we use vs an "untouched" cracked one there are a few more differences than I expected (I at one point fixed the random version number and the 3:30 auto defeat if the game thinks you copied the game illegaly).

If you send me a mail to the email in my profile, I'll send you the binary!

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