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From: alex@athertn.Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions on Mega4/HD/Laser setup (+ Dave & Bea)
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Date: 6 Jul 90 19:19:37 GMT
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Reply-To: alex@Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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BobR writes:
>Graham Thomas writes:
>> ... But first: I was looking through the ROM address space of TOS
>>1.4 and was delighted to find (at address $FD0294 AND $FD3206) that Dave
>>Staugas still (after 2 ROM revisions) loves Bea Hablig.  Not only that,
>>but (at $FD124E) that Jim (Eisenstein?) loves Jeneane.

>Nice to get independant confirmation of the veracity of what Neil Harris,
>John Townsend, Alan Pratt, Ken B., and others from Atari have been telling
>us all along... there just isn't any room in the TOS ROMs to add any more
>useful features for us...

Give me a break.  Encoding this stuff takes maybe 30 bytes, tops.  (I
used to write video games, and this kind of stuff is pretty common--you've
got 10 bytes sitting around, so you encode something cute in it. BFD).
If they had 'easter-egged' it, so that if you did something funky
like bring up a dialog box, then hit ALT-SHIFT-CTL-F1-F2 and they
pop a message to that effect, _then_ I'd be upset, 'cause that takes
a chunk of codespace.  But 30 bytes?  Sheez.

(P.S.-Neil Harris hasn't worked at Atari in quite a while.  He works
for Genie now.)

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