I think you guys know that it is still an easter egg even if you can only find it with a disassembler.
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 13:23, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting insights John. The Suzuki and Hayashi names I believe are in > the NEC 8201 technical manual. > > The code is sitting in between a bunch of strings used for other messages. > I'll have to check to see if there are references to those addresses. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, at 12:57 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > From what I read, Tandy (or Microsoft) seriously frowned upon programmers > sneaking their names into the code. I believe Suzuki and Hayashi special > directory entries in the M100 were removed from the T102 ROM even though it > didn't provide more usable space. > > I think it is most likely that the message was just embedded in the code > with no call to display it. That's a few bytes for the programmers to sign > their names without calling any more attention to themselves. > > Other reasons why the address might not show as a instruction operand: > > It's possible that the disassembly is not 100% accurate... sometimes code > disassembles as data or vice versa. Sometimes regions of memory are used as > both code and data. > It's possible that the address is computed, perhaps in order to obscure > the location of the active portion of the theorized Easter Egg. Though I > wouldn't expect that computation to be very complicated since it would > waste a bunch more bytes of codespace. > > -- John. > > >
