---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AFA819B6020E; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:42:16 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <20.00CC2835@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 7:42:01 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 2556 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:41:56 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 8415; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:40:20 -0500 Received: from mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.64] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with ESMTP ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:40:19 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au Received: from jake (c211-30-161-191.farfl1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.161.191]) by mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with SMTP id i0TCeJ125673 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:40:20 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:41:34 +1000 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Jake Anderson Subject: Re: [PIC:] Disassemblers To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856247 There is or was a cheat code for minesweper that would turn the top left pixel of your screen red when your mouse was over a mine. > -----Original Message----- > From: pic microcontroller discussion list > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Kresho > Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 4:53 PM > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: [PIC:] Disassemblers > > > I know of a case in the past where someone involved in the design > of a games > machine made a single pixel in a corner of the display turn on at > particular > times to indicate what his next course of action should be. This was > unnoticable to the general populace but for that person looking hard for > that single pixel it was like an unlimited bank account. > > I believe he was caught only because some sys admin noticed some > time later > that the culprit used someone else's access rights to their development > tools outside of normal working hours. > > This could be a similar case - see the pixel flash and then do whatever > sequence of events. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. .