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52    <p>When I played this game back as a kid, I was fascinated with what lay beyond. It seems like the track keeps going. What is around the next bend, over the next hill?</p>
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68        <h3><a href="/articles/cruisin-usa/">Cruis'n USA: rebuilding the arcade game from its original assembly</a></h3>
69        <p>How a released 1994 assembly codebase, the wrong version of the arcade ROM, MAME and a source-matching spider became a native SDL port of Cruis'n USA.</p>
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74        <h3><a href="/articles/dethrace/">Dethrace: rebuilding Carmageddon one function at a time</a></h3>
75        <p>How a forgotten symbol file became a native, verifiable rebuild of Carmageddon—and how AI is helping with the final assembly-level details.</p>
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81        <p>During Carmageddon 2 development, there was a problem with people running Carmageddon 2 on "the server".</p>
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86        <h3><a href="/articles/reactivating-carmageddon-debug-output/">Reactivating Carmageddon's debug output</a></h3>
87        <p>And yet...! The executable still contains those messages, so maybe we can re-enable them somehow.</p>
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