Happy Easter (egg)

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6502dude
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Happy Easter (egg)

Post by 6502dude »

Well, I have had no one report that they found custom Easter egg.

First batch of MC PCBs has been completed and shipped.

This day being Easter, I felt it appropriate to release info.

So, here is Easter egg details:

- Start MC
- select Utilities from menu
- select Vicmon 60-6F
- choose 3K mode
- at prompt type G 6EB6 and hit return
- press shift 6 (apersand)

- press space bar to exit

Have fun!!!
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Post by Vic20-Ian »

Many thanks.

Convoluted though!
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Post by 6502dude »

Vic20-Ian wrote:Convoluted though!
It was intended to be difficult to find (or guess) as an easter egg.
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tlr
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Re: Happy Easter (egg)

Post by tlr »

6502dude wrote:Well, I have had no one report that they found custom Easter egg.

First batch of MC PCBs has been completed and shipped.

This day being Easter, I felt it appropriate to release info.

So, here is Easter egg details:

- Start MC
- select Utilities from menu
- select Vicmon 60-6F
- choose 3K mode
- at prompt type G 6EB6 and hit return
- press shift 6 (apersand)

- press space bar to exit

Have fun!!!
That far I got, but I got crazy trying to find a way to get to it without doing the "G" command. Turns out this is how it was supposed to be. :)

Anyway I cheated a little as I had access to several ROM dumps and could cross correlate them to find the encoded serial. ;)
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Post by nbla000 »

Then I suppose that it will be a new Easter Egg for the next updated Mega-Cart revision... right Brian ? :wink:
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Post by Pedro Lambrini »

How the hell was I ever going to find that?!
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Post by tlr »

I agree with Pedro.
Without cheating like I did it would have been very hard to find, especially since there was no UI way of getting there.
I really like the idea of the units being personalized, nicely executed!
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