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Originally Posted by msxyz
I do remember typing some pokes myself but it was rather the exception, not the rule. Softwares from first party publishers were almost glitch free.
Can you imagine what would happen in the cartridge era (mask ROM, not flash) if some serious flaw was allowed to slip past QA?
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It happened. The computers even had bugs in their own ROMS, the speccy had ROM bugs that caused parts of BASIC to not work properly and the Z80 CPU, well that had a whole load of instructions that didn't quite work properly with an alternate set of switchable registers, so they were just not documented, as they weren't reliable. It's just people didn't really seem to get that irate about it. JSW crashed on the last room, which was annoying, but I think people just accepted it was like that - quite strange. Elite came with a LENSLOK device that only worked if you had exactly the right sized TV and then not really very well and you had to guess mostly. If you got it wrong, you had to reload the game, which wasn't quick - now that was restrictive DRM!
EDIT: Erg, thread merge. Added original quote.