What’s scary is know exactly what you’re referring to even though I never had that system.
Somewhere along the line, self-modifying code became nearly taboo for us regular people to even think about. I think it was the computer viruses in the 90s that gave self-modifying code a bad public name. [yet, it’s in use to this day for much the same reasons as then.]
What’s funny is that people keep rediscovering it like a lost secret.
They often use high level languages and scripts and that’s fine (I prefer them too). But when you’ve gone into a hex editor and really cracked something at a level nobody will be looking for? I remember that feeling. It’s magical
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It’s where my brain is at right now. I found a whole famous book here
“The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” and I’m reading it now. I always wanted to know just how they made computer generated trees so realistic with fractals and now I’m starting to see how.
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/
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