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	If you do not now, nor will you ever, use a single 6502 for your
game _and_ coin processor, just delete this now and save some time...

	Now, for you PotShot and Tetris programmers (and any others who
are into "cheap" in a big way). Norm Avellar found yet another coin bug.
It seems that if MECHS=2, the "middle-mech-multiplier" is _not_ applied
to the left mech. I can only assume this was on purpose, because the code
goes to some effort to do it. I also could swear I changed it a long time
ago. But then again, I would have guessed that the copy of nucn65 in 
sys$sysdevice:[utilities] was no more than two versions out of date too...

	Anyway, the latest (today) version of nucn65.mac is in
ee$userdisk:[albaugh.6502.coin], and will be in wherever the standard place
should be if someone will let me know where that is (I can never unravel
AUDIO's logicals). The version in sys$sysdevice:[utilities] is unbelievably
old and crufty, so it is almost certainly _not_ being used by anybody. Maybe
I ought to delete it and see who screams :-)

					Any suggestions?
					Mike
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Dec 22, 1988