from the desk of stinkpot

i rediscored the other day one of my middle-school games - need for speed 2 se (special edition). unfortunately, the install kept crashing on the windows XP box i had handy.
upon running the game, i kept getting the error:
initmem - INSUFICIENT MEMORY TO CONTINUE FILE win\initmem.c LINE 242
to fix this problem, i found out that […]

during an undergrad winter break, i was into yahoo’s word racer and experimenting with perl and shell-scripting. i thought it would be a nice little exercise to try and combine the two. the zip file linked here is the product of this learning experience.
enclosed within it is a program that will exhaustively solve […]