points by debo_ 3 days ago | 0 comments
My earliest "gnarly bug" experience was that the "set flag" operations in ZZT are limited to 8 flags, but it doesn't throw an error if you exceed that limit; it just wraps to the zeroth flag. It took me a full year to figure it out as a ten-year old.
[–] dormento 3 days ago
[–] willismichael 3 days ago
Well, it was limited to 8 flags.
[–] debo_ 2 days ago
As a computing native, I mix up my 2s and 10s all the time /s
[–] soupfordummies 3 days ago
warms my heart to see this so high. that summer I was 10 and discovered ZZT and the surprirsingly robust editor and language was really where it all began for me tech-wise. and I was just thinking about it two days ago
[–] debo_ 3 days ago
I joke that I learned how to SmallTalk before I learned how to small-talk.
o_O
Edit: i see you corrected it now, but with hn you never know..