Post by Peer on Apr 30, 2023 3:44:22 GMT -5
Digital Archeology - Yet another treasure hunt...
After discovering the Easter Eggs (programmer's name) in Star Ship (see here) and Spinball (see here), I took a look at yet another game written by Mark Indictor.
I recall that at some point in the past, someone on the web mentioned that he saw Mark's name appear on the screen when playing Polar Rescue, but that someone also wrote that they did not know why it showed up and could not reproduce this.
I did not succeed in finding that post, so it might not be available anymore, but as it turned out that person was right. There is such an Easter Egg in Polar Rescue:
itwww.hs-pforzheim.de/daten/mitarbeiter/johannsen/vectrex_lab/projects/polar_rescue/polar_rescue.htm
The method to trigger this is rather easy, but it was very well hidden and obfuscated inside the code.
Many Cheers,
Peer
After discovering the Easter Eggs (programmer's name) in Star Ship (see here) and Spinball (see here), I took a look at yet another game written by Mark Indictor.
I recall that at some point in the past, someone on the web mentioned that he saw Mark's name appear on the screen when playing Polar Rescue, but that someone also wrote that they did not know why it showed up and could not reproduce this.
I did not succeed in finding that post, so it might not be available anymore, but as it turned out that person was right. There is such an Easter Egg in Polar Rescue:
itwww.hs-pforzheim.de/daten/mitarbeiter/johannsen/vectrex_lab/projects/polar_rescue/polar_rescue.htm
The method to trigger this is rather easy, but it was very well hidden and obfuscated inside the code.
Many Cheers,
Peer