My number one favourite string among the Vectrex cassettes is
"This space available, what the heck are you looking at?"
I don't remember which cassette it was.
I had one of these games and we plugged it into a 6809 development
system and had a lot of fun, modifying the code.
:-)
I still have the Vectrex and it is running fine.
G?ran
Eric Smith wrote:
Randy wrote:
This 680C62 thread reminded me of a clever thing
Compaq put in their BIOS,
the string "None of this code is copyright IBM"
IBM's software would not run on a machine that did not have "copyright
IBM" in the BIOS.
The Vectrex home game console, developed my GCE and later sold by Milton
Bradley, would not run a cartridge that didn't contain at a fixed offset
near the beginning the string [copyright symbol]GCE 19xx. It became
standard practice to fill in the xx with 00, to produce an obviously
invalid copyright message that would nevertheless convince the Vectrex
to run the code.
In a legal battle (possibly Sega v. Accolade?), a court ruled that
if the manufacturer built into a product a mechanism that looked for
a specific data pattern to enable functionality, that the data pattern
could not benefit from copyright because it is purely functional rather
than being any form of protected expression.
Eric