Revisiting the Macintosh ROM Easter Egg 98
eldavojohn writes "NYCResistor has published photos of what they call 'Ghosts in the ROM' after dumping Apple Mac SE ROM images from a roadside Motorola 68000-era Macintosh and looking at all the data (they mention an Easter egg reference to this from 1999). They go into some nice detail about the strategy for extracting this data from a discarded unit and noticing structure. There's also other data that they weren't able to identify, which causes one to wonder how many other Easter eggs are lying about in various ROM chips and what modern Easter eggs must be shipping with software/hardware today."
scrambled channels? (Score:1, Funny)
That first picture reminds me of watching cinemax when I was a teenager, minus the naked women.
Re:Chips come in power of 2 sizes (Score:3, Funny)
What else should the developers put into the unused space?
A compression routine that would allow the machine code to fit in the 256kb to begin with?