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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions on Mega4/HD/Laser setup (+ Dave & Bea)
Message-ID: <4957@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jul 90 09:39:07 GMT
References: <3011@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <31479@cup.portal.com> <26704@cherry.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
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In article <26704@cherry.athertn.Atherton.COM> alex@Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens) writes:
]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).

Agreed. Allan Pratt did say there were only 100 bytes or so left free in the
French version of the ROM and there is a big chunk free in the UK one.

]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.

Well the rainbow effect in the Desktop Info dialog is just such an example.
It's nice but I could live without it. I'd prefer bug fixes.

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