Re: A86: very very odd

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Subject: Re: A86: very very odd
From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:06:19 -0600
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


i dont think that it would be a way to find out 'illegal' disassembly of
rom. lets face it, if TI didnt want us to disassemble the rom and find out
the calls for the calc they woulda made a documentation of the entire set of
rom calls and woulda had it ready by the time it hit the stores.

-----Original Message-----
From: TGaArdvark@aol.com <TGaArdvark@aol.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, February 15, 1998 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: A86: very very odd


>
>> on ROM 1.2, at about address $1AC1 (i think, i don't have my calc
>> here now) there is a routine which displays "Willy DO BE DO BE DO"
>> on the screen, waits, and then returns.  the ROM never calls this
>> routine as far as I can tell.  what is its purpose?!?
>
>It was put there to entertain a bored programmer who was tired of
>writing ROM. It is often referred to as an "easter egg". I think it was
>also left there by someone as an experiment to see how quickly
>we illegally disassembled their ROM.
>

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