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- Path: novice.uwaterloo.ca!dfevans
- From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
- Subject: Re: Qestion about the game "Space Taxi"
- Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
- Message-ID: <Dovt0D.2or@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:43:25 GMT
- References: <4j8p3k$4j5@news.fmso.navy.mil>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bcr.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
-
- In article <4j8p3k$4j5@news.fmso.navy.mil>,
- FirstFOOLToFinish <robert_eichler@fmso.navy.mil> wrote:
- > Thanks to this, I've gotten to the 25th and final screen, the
- >"Mystery Screen" for the first time in many years. On this screen
- >is written the following:
- >
- > Eat the PIE until a "FIRE" glows, then
- > go UP until it stops, touch a STAR and
- > you'll see the hidden SECRET MENU!!!
- >
- > I remember seeing this years ago, but never figuring out what
- >it means. If anyone knows what this is all about, *please* e-mail
- >me and let me know. It's been subconciously bugging me for years.
- >
-
- Looks like a key combination: PI, ^, and *. I'm not sure about "FIRE"
- though.
-
- > Also, if anyone knows why the loss of sound would affect game
- >play the way it does, I'm curious about that too. I seem to remember
- >once reading something about how the randomizer gets its "seed" value
- >from noise generated by the sound chip?
- >
-
- Yes. You can read the output of voice 3 which, if set to produce noise,
- gives you some hardware-generated random values.
-
- --
- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
- Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
- University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
- Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
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