17 year old Carmageddon debugging symbols file dumped using Node.js

10 points·jeff_harris··5 comments

In the Carmageddon Splat Pack folder, there is a file called ‘DETHRSC.SYM’, last modified 13th November 1997. It has sat there, un-noticed and un-loved for the last 17 years...

More details here: http://1amstudios.com/2014/12/02/carma1-symbols-dumped/

Browsable symbol output here: https://github.com/jeff-1amstudios/carmageddon1-symbol-dump

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Thanks for the pro-tip. I tried, but whenever I posted the url it never showed up unless I was logged in :(

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Thanks - it worked this morning. New story is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699543

This kind of programmer archeology is super interesting and pretty important for keeping knowledge of early gaming culture around. Its fascinating to imagine the software development practises and company culture that bought about a codebase containing such function names as 'CalcOpponentConspicuousnessWithAViewToCheatingLikeFuck' and 'MakeFlagWavingBastardWaveHisFlagWhichIsTheProbablyTheLastThingHeWillEverDo' (Well actually in this case you don't have to imagine - The Carmageddon creators Stainless software have footage of their Christmas parties on youtube where they pretty much destroy their office once a year)

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