importantSYS.SOURCE: Beej's Bit Bucket• 2026-07-22T11:58:09Z

Decoding the Mysterious REM Statement in The Wizard's Castle Source Code

#basic programming #z80 #reverse engineering

The article explores the mysterious REM statement in The Wizard's Castle BASIC game, revealing it as a Z80 machine code routine. Through reverse engineering, the authors decoded its role in seeding the pseudorandom number generator, uncovering a hidden technical detail in 1980s microcomputer programming.

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