Does anyone know if this is the reason for Starflight's madding save system[0]? I can't think of a technical reason it would need to work that way, but it is an exceptionally rare way to do things so I'm forced to wonder if the use of forth is partly responsible.

[0] Starflight self-modifies as it runs, meaning the executable itself is re-written with the game state baked in. If the game exits without saving in the approved way the executable is broken.