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Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn ne

Please fix the integer overflow. Total income over the game was tracked in a 32-bit signed int, so if you earned too much money suddenly the total would turn negative and your stocks would crash.

jrs235 7mo ago
I never found the bug in that direction. I discovered it the opposite way: when starting out, selling shares (or was it taking loans?) all the shares you can. Get around 30+ million in the hole and continue to lose money. Eventually an arithmetic overflow will occur and then suddenly you'll have a net worth of like $30-40 million and have the money form selling stock to build to your heart's content.
- saidnooneever 7mo ago
  hahah this was it! make so many debt ur suddenly rich haha. kinda like evil corpos do today no? hahahha
  - dijit 7mo ago
    "Too big to fail"... ironically a very realistic feature.
  - jawilson2 7mo ago
    "If you owe the bank $100, you have a problem. If you owe the bank 2^32 dollars, the bank has a problem."
boredhedgehog 7mo ago
As described by the posts, the original used 16-bit signed integers. The fix was to switch to 32-bit.
zeristor 7mo ago
Sounds like the famous Gandhi bug in Civilisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi edit: turns out this was a fabrication, good thing I read my cited source! "On September 8, 2020, Sid Meier's autobiography, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games, was released, containing confirmation that the Gandhi software bug was fabricated and a detailed background of the urban legend's formation" from the above link