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340 glitch running SPCWAR
Some kind of glitch that happens occasionally during an explosion. A wild vector running amok?


This is another kind of glitch, but it was seen running the same SPCWAR.
This program has been running continuously a few days. It has been configured to only have one sun in the middle. It should be sparkling, but there are only a few dots displayed.

I have seen something similar with 3406, where the rectangular cursor deteriorates into a few pixels.
The display list must have been corrupted. That sounds kinda hard to find :/
I could accept that they, except for the cursor. The display list for the cursor is just a parameter word, two point mode words, and a character mode word. Since the intensity level and position is correct, the only thing that could be corrupted is the characters. But there's no character matching what I saw. I'll take a screenshot if I see it again.
Is it possible there's some data structure describing the screen pixels that can be corrupted?
Actual Type 30 screenshot. It looks similar to the above photo.
