I did a thing that I felt pretty cool: Fixing a 33 year old bug in World of Xeen

[finalpatch]

#11947

https://finalpatch.github.io/xeen/index.html

tldr: There is a crashing bug in the game’s MT-32 driver, this is now finally fixed.

[Bobbin]

#11949

Congrats for finding the bug, I love this kind of adventures! But, I must say, the writeup is quite clearly made with an AI, which spoils the pleasure of reading it. If you penned a post manually you’d have something worthy to be posted to Lobsters and Hacker News…

[finalpatch]

#11950

Yeah I know. But writing the post is not nearly as fun.

[dr_st]

#11960

AI writing aside, this was some cool work! Very impressive.

Maybe you could add a link to your write-up in the ‘Essential Improvements’ section on the “World of Xeen” page of PCGamingWiki. 😎

Incidentally, I recently also felt like fixing a couple of bugs in an old game, also related to music. 😋

https://cloakedthargoid.wordpress.com/aladdin-dos-music/

Mine was a much easier endeavor though – it is basically just editing a few data structures. Nothing even remotely close to debugging an audio driver or locating code that corrupts itself. Although I did learn a good deal on how module trackers work. 😁