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Ordered by value.

1. MAUPITI1.EXE game logic

The structure and text path are known (The two programs, Text and fonts). Next: Map Game_MainLoop, what bank and string numbers call sites use, and which strings belong to rooms and characters. The top callers, such as 0x2016F (Rec2A_GetEntry, 283 calls) show record 0x2A matters most. Next: Game_Turn EA 0x1E220, and what each remaining 0x2A table means. Game logic lists the code not yet read. Many of the 223 functions are still unnamed.

2. Remaining text questions

• The paper from the garden (#48) is a third grid, but no game in 'Les échecs' decodes it, read the same way as the two messages (Walkthrough). It may be a red herring.

3. Finish the image decoder

• Port the frame, panel and clock (scenes/ has the picture area only). Compare dawn, dusk and night with screenshots.

4. The other INT 0FEh services

15 services are still named only SvcNN. Their MAUPITI1 stubs and maup.exe targets are both known.

5. Video path

Read the page-to-screen copy, the full Vid_Sprite* routines, and what uses wPage2Seg.

6. Smaller items

• G7.CON: confirm the low-density floppy explanation.
• FontBlock2 and FontBlock3 (EA 0x1C877, 0x1CA3D): FontBlock3 is word-swapped at load, so it's probably image or font data. Not decoded.
• SAUP.MAU fields beyond the first five (The two programs). Its last 8 bytes map to maup.exe DS:2835.
• MUS event format and sound playback.
• Binary Ninja: a real segmented MZ load would resolve far calls and DS: references.

Answered in the re-check

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