Re: Meaning of Cheat Codes

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From: jsl... John Slagel
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 01:05

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darr...@umich.edu (Darren Pong Lo) writes:

>various Parallax and Interplay guys, who shall remain nameless)? And who 
>or what is Farmer Joe? Is he related to the Dirty Cheeseman in any way?

  Farmer_Joe is the callsign Mike used during developement.  I think he
  chose it because he figured the sheer width of it would crash the callsign
  code.  Evil, mischeveous people sometimes like to break other people's  
  code for fun :)  Maybe there was some other reason, though.

  John Slagel
  Parallax Software

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