Ghosts in the rom
nycresistor.com
Ghosts in the rom
1–10 of 23 posts
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#2According to this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/damianward/3300112470/
"The ROM used only 89 KB of the available 256 KB. So to fill the chip, Apple put the photos of the development team into the ROM. To see these photos, press the debug button then type: G 41D89A"
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#3If you're interested in this sort of digital archaeology, check out The Cutting Room Floor: http://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor It's focused on unearthing this sort of thing in games.
There's also a lot of this sort of thing on http://pagetable.com
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#4If you're interested in this sort of digital archaeology, check out The Cutting Room Floor: http://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor It's focused on unearthing this sort of thing in games. There's also a lot of this sort of thing on http://pagetable.com
pagetable.net and www.pagetable.net don't seem to resolve.
> DiG 9.8.1-P1 > pagetable.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADERRe: Ghosts in the rom
#5If you're interested in this sort of digital archaeology, check out The Cutting Room Floor: http://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor It's focused on unearthing this sort of thing in games. There's also a lot of this sort of thing on http://pagetable.com
pagetable.net and www.pagetable.net don't seem to resolve. > DiG 9.8.1-P1 > pagetable.net ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER
Sorry, fixed; it's pagetable.com.
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#6It blows my mind that those photos was taken over a quarter century ago, hidden by some playful programmers, and are only now unearthed by an entirely different generation of playful programmers. Cool stuff.
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#7They were known about back in the day as well.. we all saw them because of fantastic mac shareware mags, macworld, etc.. they just haven't been seen in a while.
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#8Previously: "The Joy of Dumping" -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150668
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#9Where's Steve?
Re: Ghosts in the rom
#10Where's Steve?
Where's Woz?