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How can I reverse-engineer the game Wizardry (1981) for PC, based on UCSD Pascal?
I am looking at the files included with the 1981 game Wizardry. The particular version I have is from a 1998 re-release, but I do not know if the binary is still the original 1981 release.
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Why did MS-DOS applications built using Turbo Pascal fail to start with a division by zero error on faster systems?
On faster MS-DOS systems, it wasn't entirely uncommon for applications built using Borland's Turbo Pascal to fail to start, and (before exiting back to the command prompt) to report a division by zero ...