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From: lncjb@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: hidden messages for C64?
Message-ID: <9676.27ccd300@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Date: 27 Feb 91 23:53:03 GMT
References: <39610@cup.portal.com> <9671.27cb95c9@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Organization: University of Newcastle
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In article <9671.27cb95c9@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, c8923075@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
> In article <39610@cup.portal.com>, llaria@cup.portal.com (Tracy M Wirs) writes:
>> Hello...... me again.
>> 
>> I remember seeing a post on finding a hidden message in the C128.  A friend
>> of mine who has a C128, so I told him about it...... and his eyes almost
>> popped out of his head!  hehehehe.....
>> made him poke around his computer more......
>> 
>> ANYWAY, I was thinking:  Is there such a message on the C64?  If so, where 
>> can I find it?
>> 
> 
> There's some ASC bytes of unknown purpose in my PAL C64, just below the
> 	6502 vector table (<$FFFA). I think it's "RRJ".

I checked this last night. The string is "RRBY" from $FFF6-FFF9.

I would have gotten this right first time, but some suit removed the last
	remaining C64 on campus and placed it in regions unknown (and also
	the last remaining Atari800 and MicroBee).


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            Chris "Polar" Baird
Impoverished BSc Undergrad @ Newcastle Uni (OZ!)
         LNCJB@cc.newcastle.edu.au