Oddest mismatch in hardware for a given purpose...

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Wed Jun 10 07:39:00 CDT 2009


> (The BASIC implementation is also incredibly buggy, mostly due to poor 
> argument checking... see http://www.pisi.com.pl/piotr433/mk85mc1e.htm 
> for a cool example of exploiting a bug in INPUT to do machine-language 
> coding, in a way only a contortionist could love...)

That is outstanding. This reminds me of the stack-pave trick for writing to
Tomy Tutor VDP RAM by exploiting bugs in SCELL and GCELL (although no
explicit execution of 9900 assembly ... yet).

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