the cutting room mirror

Squish 'Em Sam!

Spoiler Alert: He does.

Hidden Text#

Two messages are hidden in the ROM. The first, a list of game credits, can be found at 0x67:

TONY NGO, URIAH BARNETT & BENNY NGO 12/01/82
TITLE AND SPEECH ADDED & GAME INCREASED TO 25 LEVELS NORMAN.R.DICK
INTERPHASE CANADA OCT83

The second message starts at 0x3F02 in the ROM:

This space is dedicated to all those humble code hackers
who try frantically to cram a program into 8K bytes
and then are given 16K
Also to all accountants who want 15K proms

(Source: Original TCRF research)

References#


  1. Hidden credit↩︎
  2. AVAILABILITY UPDATE - Computer Entertainer, Volume 3, Number 1, April 1984↩︎