Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU!meekins From: meekins@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (timothy lee meekins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Demos Message-ID: <9101171730.AA06220@limpet.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 17 Jan 91 17:30:30 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 37 In article you write: >EASTER EGGS in the FTA X-mas demo?? SAPIN, KILLKILL, and FAG > >Where? The "snow" screen. > > Well, ummm, that note about entering "SAPIN" at the X-MAS >DEMO main menu is rather interesting... where'd you find that out? > Boot Copy ][+, go to block 0, do a search for bytes $00 $C0, when you find the second occurence (block $1A?), do a disassembly listing. You'll not lots of strange code and a check for a carriage return, after a return is encountered, there is a loop which does a memory comparison, and each comparison performs an EOR #$AB, so, take a look at the memory being compared, EOR #$AB, and magically you will see the words SAPIN, KILLKILL, and FAG, although KILLKILL is decoded slightly different. > >| ProLine.: llee@gnh-starport | Millions long for immortality who | >| UUCP....: crash!gnh-starport!llee | don't know what to do on a rainy | >| InterNet: llee@gnh-starport.cts.com | Sunday afternoon. | >| AO .....: Watch this space! | -- Susan Ertz | -- +---------------------------S-U-P-P-O-R-T-----------------------------------+ |/ Tim Meekins <<>> Snail Mail: <<>> Apple II \| |> meekins@cis.ohio-state.edu <<>> 8372 Morris Rd. <<>> Forever! <| |\ timm@pro-tcc.cts.com <<>> Hilliard, OH 43026 <<>> /| +-------------------------S-H-A-R-E-W-A-R-E-!-------------------------------+