Originally Posted by Terence
It can reset. You can get Excalibur II by it.
Of course, you'll have gone through more than just through the different
colours, and into a number of graphical glitches, but it'll happen. (Or rather,
I've yet to test any value of the game clock where the counter *stops*
incrementing or caps, and I've watched it reset finally under test conditions
over the last final seconds)
There's just one final problem.
The time required for the clock to reset starting from 00:00:00?
2 years, 98 days, 12 hours, 6 minutes, 28.2666 seconds.
Have fun waiting.
Actually, there's only one main graphical glitch that I've seen, due to a logic
error... then it finally corrects itself after an hour. No idea if it ever
glitches again after that. It still doesn't *cap* though.
From 0 to 99 hours, the time display is white.
From 100 to 199 hours, the time display is red.
From 200 to 299 hours, the time display is yellow.
From 300 to 399 hours, the time display is blue.
From 400 to 499 hours, the time display is purple.
From 500 to 599 hours, the time display is green.
At 600 hours, the display glitches for the next hour.
At 601 hours, the display returns to 99:59:59 in green, and stays like that
until the counter resets (theoretically).
And if you want to know how the number is arrived at... well, reverse the
process and work out how it compares to standard overflow limits of integers.