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Wing Commander programmer waits until yesterday to unveil great story. by Fussbett 08/21/2009, 6:03pm PDT
...in the comments section of a mediocre Gamasutra article:

Ken Demarest

20 Aug 2009 at 8:50 am PST

Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like "EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah." We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."


http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tricks.php?page=1
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Wing Commander programmer waits until yesterday to unveil great story. by Fussbett 08/21/2009, 6:03pm PDT NEW
    I liked this one: by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/21/2009, 9:39pm PDT NEW
        The best part of Super Mario was killing Lakitu NT by Entropy Stew 08/23/2009, 7:32pm PDT NEW
    they might not be too proud of that is why :( NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 08/22/2009, 7:55am PDT NEW
        I think his bosses at Origin stopped caring a long time ago. NT by Fussbett 08/23/2009, 9:19pm PDT NEW
 
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