I was pulling up an old project (A little Simon game which has apparently fallen off the ‘net when I moved my site- will have to repost) to use as a classroom demonstration, and discovered that sometime in the last couple years, the int->unsigned long promotion in Ardino/Processing broke/changed without comment.
The code uses using primitive nested counters and delays to generate sounds and control difficulty, which means rather large numbers (100-microsecond scale delays running for seconds) are being thrown about. To isolate the change, I wrote the following test:
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