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Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (Apple II)

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Developer Messages#

Two messages are present on the disk. The first one can be found on Track 1:

HEY! GET OUTTA MY CODE   
E.P. WAS HERE
WRITTEN BY KEN JORDAN  
MAY ALL YOUR SYNC BYTES BE INVALID...
MAY A MAC TRUCK HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FLOPPIES

The second one is on Track 17:

HELLO THERE PIRATES!!
CONTEST -READ MESSAGE IN BOOT 1-

SYSTEM CONFIG:
APPLE ][+  SPEEDEMON CARD  
AXLON RAMDISK 320
VIDEX 80 COLUMN
SSM-AIO  3 DISK DRIVES

DON'T PROGRAM WITHOUT THEM!!!

YOHO WAS HERE (BRIEFLY)

(Source: The Ramsacker/The Byte Bastards)

References#


  1. McT - GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute↩︎
  2. AVAILABILITY UPDATE - The Video Game Update, Volume 2, Number 9, December 1983↩︎