Peter, Does the Arc 4 series have any easter eggs?

[sharkeeper]

Hopefully, most members know what this means without an explanation!

Cheers!

 

[zumlin]

Re: Peter, Does the Arc 4 series have any easter e

i don't, /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif please explain

 

[sharkeeper]

Re: Peter, Does the Arc 4 series have any easter e

Short answer: Undocumented features in software or program.

Long answer: (from dictionary.com)

easter egg



<jargon> (From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in
the US and many parts of Europe)

1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as a
joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or
browsing the code.

2. A message, graphic, sound effect, or other behaviour
emitted by a program (or, on an IBM PC, the BIOS ROM) in
response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes,
intended as a joke or to display program credits.

One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of
operating systems caused them to respond to the command
"make love" with "not war?". Many personal computers, and
even satellite control computers, have much more elaborate
eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers' names
(e.g. Microsoft Windows 3.1x), political exhortations and
snatches of music. The Tandy Color Computer 3 (CoCo) had
images of the entire development team. Microsoft Excel 97
includes a flight simulator!

(http://www.eeggs.com/).

[Jargon File]

Cheers!

 

[chiaroscuro]

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[zumlin]

Re: Peter, Does the Arc 4 series have any easter e

ic

 

[chiaroscuro]

well put,S.

 

[Gransee]

No, it does not. We only had enough room in memory for the usefull functions. I thought it would be cool to add some, but of course when/if I did, I certainly would not say anything here. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Peter

 

[georget98]

I wonder if the simulators have any? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

 

[The_LED_Museum]

I remember the Commodore 128 had one.
If you were in BASIC and typed in "SYS 32800,123,45,6" you'd get a list of software & hardware designer names, and the phrase "Link arms, don't make them" in reverse video at the bottom of your screen.

I asked somebody responsible for the Color Kinetics ColorDial system if there was an easter egg in it, and he said there wasn't enough memory left to put one in there. I suspect the same is true of the Arc 4.

 

[IlluminatingBikr]

So it doesn't flash "Peter Gransee Rules" in morse code? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

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george said:
I wonder if the simulators have any?

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GEORGE!!!!

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