Secret message in the stamps
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Corrected subject line - sorry folks.
Hey, guys and gals...
This is really cool:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/27494.html
Secret message in the Stamp... You've been holding out on us, Jon :O)
TTYL
- Robert "8)
Hey, guys and gals...
This is really cool:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/27494.html
Secret message in the Stamp... You've been holding out on us, Jon :O)
TTYL
- Robert "8)
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Jon
Original Message
From: Robert Ussery [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=UwVJRK2v7_7EXT2ALenwDIpBgRQqolyC34zOEd_HHQ4Ww50GA__AaZTF5TJL96pF0zFmIZ4UleGZ]uavscience@f...[/url
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:56 PM
To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Secret message in the stamps
Corrected subject line - sorry folks.
Hey, guys and gals...
This is really cool:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/27494.html
Secret message in the Stamp... You've been holding out on us, Jon :O)
TTYL
- Robert "8)
>Technically it's not an Easter Egg because it is being placed there by the
>user. Now, things like the HYP and ATN functions that went undiscovered
>(our boss, the original BASIC Stamp creator forgot about them) until about
>18 months ago, those were Easter Eggs. Or were, I guess, until we
>documented them....
>
>Jon
How exactly does this work? I assume that it is something that some engineer
went out of their way to implement. I can't see how simply writing a string
to the EEPROM can result in a debug window with text, unless the string
corresponds to the PBASIC tokens for a Debug statement.
That's pretty cool about the HYP and ATN functions. Any more undiscovered
instructions to come? <grin> How about a built-in TCP/IP stack that someone
overlooked in the documentation?
TTYL!
:OP
- Robert
given the correct instructions. You can make your own program like that
by using the Memory Map window to expose the compiled tokens and their
starting address.
And there are no more undocumented features. Sorry.
-- Jon Williams
-- Applications Engineer, Parallax
-- Dallas Office
Original Message
From: Robert Ussery [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=KZ8GtgLTfGDo7SW4enCDmnveD0wDJ25W7z9HDCted13tV6oeg-GAR6Jvml8K2Vjn8te8UudEfWeY-cE7]uavscience@f...[/url
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:07 PM
To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Secret message in the stamps
Jon Williams wrote:
>Technically it's not an Easter Egg because it is being placed there by
>the user. Now, things like the HYP and ATN functions that went
>undiscovered (our boss, the original BASIC Stamp creator forgot about
>them) until about 18 months ago, those were Easter Eggs. Or were, I
>guess, until we documented them....
>
>Jon
How exactly does this work? I assume that it is something that some
engineer went out of their way to implement. I can't see how simply
writing a string to the EEPROM can result in a debug window with text,
unless the string corresponds to the PBASIC tokens for a Debug
statement.
That's pretty cool about the HYP and ATN functions. Any more
undiscovered instructions to come? <grin> How about a built-in TCP/IP
stack that someone overlooked in the documentation?
TTYL!
:OP
- Robert
Original Message
>From: Jon Williams [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=d7A5Ph3hvswDK6d6upFx7zAp-hZELnB7gNbmIuWkti9mLXBg3SIQ4AYnqXnXHHIwgZP6N9HBKNINrKKDYQ]jwilliams@p...[/url
>The program is simply writing to program space what the compiler would
>given the correct instructions. You can make your own program like that
>by using the Memory Map window to expose the compiled tokens and their
>starting address.
Okey dokey... That makes sense.
>And there are no more undocumented features. Sorry.
Darn... Well back to pluggin' away with the existing instruction set.
TTYL!
- Robert