No, it's because I canceled the project and started something else.
Back then, I canceled and started a new project probably every other month. It was horrible, since I never finished anything.
Now, being much wiser, I've been working on the same project for two and a half years. And I haven't finished anything.
The stray \240 is probably a non-visible character that was accidentally copied when you copied the code from the forum post. Try going to the very very first character of the file, and hitting 'backspace' several times to get rid of any non-visible characters at the front, then go to the very end of the file and hit 'delete' several times to remove any from the end.
Or, here's the entire project, I don't know if it compiles or not.
The executable appears to work, and wow, does it looks pretty cool. I half want to return to this project now!