28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
5:28 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
The "BASIC Adventure", however, was stupid
and misguided. Boot with no disk in
the drive and no hard drive, and you'll go into BASIC. Hit ESC as the very
first key and you'll go into this... game-thing-whatever it is.
http://www.eeggs.com/items/40624.html has documentation.
Cool! I love hardware easter eggs. There's a few I know of in the Mac
and in Apple ]['s, including the //c and the //gs.
Here's the Apple //c one:
Apple //c (Original)
Entering the following program from BASIC will produce the names of three
people on the Apple //c programming team:
10 IN#5
20 INPUT A$
30 PRINT A$
This is an excerpt from a file I put out years ago:
http://siconic.com/files/dsgskeehm
Please excuse the lame rhetoric...I was way uptight back then.
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