Show HN: Reversing Wing Commander to find the entity table in 64k to add co-op
I've always wanted to play Wing Commander with friends, so we could fly the story missions together. In 2015, I hypothesized that the full game state fit in the data segment (only 64k), and I could do small position and orientation experiments with vbindiff to discover how the memory was organized. Some fun findings: the camera was in entity index 0x3D (a "3D" joke?). My brother, Patrick, figured out Borland's overlay loader crashed the game until we made our stub look like a real stac
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2026-11-14 21:57:59.611Z
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来源描述：I've always wanted to play Wing Commander with friends, so we could fly the story missions together. In 2015, I hypothesized that the full game state fit in the data segment (only 64k), and I could do small position and orientation experiments with vbindiff to discover how the memory was organized. Some fun findings: the camera was in entity index 0x3D (a "3D" joke?). My brother, Patrick, figured out Borland's overlay loader crashed the game until we made our stub look like a real stac
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来源票数: 4 votes (2026年11月14日 UTC; cumulative since publication)；前次同口径记录为 4（2026年11月14日 UTC），两个观测值不等于需求增长。
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先明确变化影响的现有工作流，再判断是否升级。发布热度不证明效果提升；接口、价格或可用性变化也可能增加迁移工作。
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待补齐：新旧行为、受影响套餐与地区、生效时间、兼容性、回退路径及同一工作量下的成本。
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