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Defects in historical software and hardware, their causes, questions about well-known bugs. Use [debugging] for bug diagnosis and discovery.
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What is the CoCo "Head Banger bug" and what is the "fix"?
I posted this question because I had those thoughts, and then spent ages going through multiple dead ends until I finally found it (my Google-fu is on the fritz). So that I don't have to go through th …
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What is the CoCo "Head Banger bug" and what is the "fix"?
I remember that horrible racket coming from the floppy disk when I first used it after started my CoCo, and that it was called the "Head Banger bug".
I remember that it was due to a quick-n-nasty bit …
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Why did Pokémon Red have so many overflow bugs?
I cannot speak about Pokémon in particular, but as a programmer for ~30 years, I'll answer thus: either laziness, incorrect assumption, or surprise.
Laziness
After an operation that overflows, you n …