REFORGE
Atari 2600 / F179
CONFIRMED

COMBAT FRAME-0 DEATH ROOT-CAUSED AND FIXED

STATUS
CONFIRMED
AREA
Evidence
RECORDED
2026-07-10
PUBLIC SOURCE
Research dossier / finding 179
RECORD ID
atari2600-f179
SNAPSHOT
a58ea4ac37c644e9

SYMPTOM: fresh builds of Combat die before frame 1 completes — [DISPATCH] t=0x1CC8 → (cache-dependent) [DISPATCH-MISS] or phantom sub_001CC8 execution → dispatch t=0x0001 → OUTER-LOOP-NATURAL-EXIT, 0/1800 frames. June-12 fresh corpus had Combat L2/1800f; every corpus "refresh" since classified from stale artifacts (F178), so the break stayed invisible until the first honest rebuild.

Raw traces, ROM material, local paths, and personal data are not part of this public record.