Posted By
Plus4Vampyre
on 2005-11-12
06:26:55
 |  SYS 52641
If you type in "sys 52641" in your c16 or Plus/4 you get the four names of the basic programmer - F.Bowen, J.Cooper, B.Herd and T.Ryan. Does somebody knows why Bowen's name is inverse and Ryan's name is flashing?
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Posted By
retroscener
on 2005-11-12
07:43:37
 | Re: SYS 52641
dang, i never realised about any easter eggs...well spotted, i'd be interested to know why also.
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2005-11-12
08:59:30
| Re: SYS 52641
Among other places, this is listed here: Easter eggs. I doubt there was any particular reason for the flashing or the inverse, although both those names appear in the other names list in the ROM. Maybe they did more than the others.
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Posted By
Lavina
on 2005-11-22
02:40:40
 | Re: SYS 52641
I heared a rumor that the one with inverted fonts was dead.
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Posted By
Rachy
on 2005-11-22
03:18:49
| Re: SYS 52641
Or just to be fancy? 
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Posted By
Sidius
on 2005-11-22
03:58:10
 | Re: SYS 52641
@Lavina:
Thus Fred Bowen was definitively not dead at this time - at least not yet ! 
He gave at least in April 1994 one more interview about the C65...
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Posted By
Plus4 user
on 2005-11-23
01:15:24
| Re: SYS 52641
Was that 1994 interview the one in which he alluded to the cpm/z80 cartridge, for the Plus4, too?
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Posted By
Sidius
on 2005-11-23
02:34:04
| Re: SYS 52641
Oh...I dont know !?
I would have to read up this once again - if I find it once again !
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Posted By
BilHerd
on 2005-11-23
10:48:52
 | Re: SYS 52641
The names are inverted and flashing because they are the guys who made the Easter egg and were just bringing more attention to themselves, all in fun.
The real address of the Egg so that us lay people could remember it was sys dec ("cdab") or whatever the syntax is for the decimal value of $cdab I believe that it is in the middle of a cosine table or something like that as the software guys thought that no one would look there. The user groups found it right away. This was actually an instance when we had run out of ROM space while working so they didn't really want anyone to no till it was too late that we used a little for the names thing.
This is the earliest instance of an Egg I know of, anyone know of one that was out prior to the TED/Plus4?
Freddy is alive and well and working at Franklin Computers.
There was never any thoughts of CPM for the TED. TED was designed as a $49 computer that wasn't supposed to mess with the C64 market, it was supposed to be like a Timex Sinclair. There is no bus sharing architecture in the cartdridge port as a master device (there is no way for an external processor to "sieze" the bus)
Bil Herd
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2005-11-23
11:49:53
| Re: SYS 52641
Wow, a moment of silence please... I'd like to welcome Bil as the first among the fathers of the 264 family on our forum!
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Posted By
Sidius
on 2005-11-23
12:15:53
| Re: SYS 52641
Hey, this is great - many thanks for the clarification, Mr. Herd !
Do they often visit this side and the forum?
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2005-11-26
02:22:12
| Re: SYS 52641
Mr. Herd visited upon special request from a regular on the forums.
If Mr. Herd continues to visit, I would hope that site management (Csabo or Lando) offers him a complimentary membership.
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