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Old 12-24-2004, 05:18 PM   #7
jsalsb
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Join Date: March 5, 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Age: 58
Posts: 428
[quote]Originally posted by aleph_null1:
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Just think: Some shoddy programmer thought, "Geez, a signed short is more than enough for this ... memory conservation is key, after all ..."

When an unsigned long wouldn't take up anything, to speak of, and would let you keep playing for a few more decades! [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]
I'm also guessing that they were thinking that building in support for level 3200+ was unnecessary!
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