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Two's Complement

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The Horror of Uninitialized Variables in Sega Saturn

The amount of effort that we used to put into our discs and the care and the terror, actually, right? Yeah. Being there with the guy in the motorbike leathers from the shipping from from the courier company is standing in reception looking at his watch. And you are around the 12 disc CD burner telling people not to jump around because these things were so sensitive to vibration,. While the last 12 of the gold masters were being made. You get an all pointer exception. Right. But they aren't initialized from a cold start on a machine that doesn't have that operating system like ROM in it. It just boosts the disk. So yeah, so you don't get that so much

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