Omegamatrix Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 (edited) Now that I think about it, it is most likely that in the chaos of Atari Corps they just didn't realize the Easter Egg was in there or they just didn't care. Perhaps they couldn't find there modified rom and were in too much of a hurry to get it out of the door? Anyhow it's great that it finally came to light. Edited October 28, 2007 by Omegamatrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Now that I think about it, it is most likely that in the chaos of Atari Corps they just didn't realize the Easter Egg was in there or they just didn't care. Judging by Atari's history of the left hand never knowing what the right hand was doing, I suspect you're right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchysuperman Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I don't have a way to dump the ROM, but I'd be happy to send it to somebody who is wiling to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I don't have a way to dump the ROM, but I'd be happy to send it to somebody who is wiling to. I'd be glad to dump and post the ROM if you send it to me.. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchysuperman Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I don't have a way to dump the ROM, but I'd be happy to send it to somebody who is wiling to. I'd be glad to dump and post the ROM if you send it to me.. ..Al Cool, thanks! PM me an address and I'll get it out tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I don't have a way to dump the ROM, but I'd be happy to send it to somebody who is wiling to. I'd be glad to dump and post the ROM if you send it to me.. ..Al Cool, thanks! PM me an address and I'll get it out tomorrow. Done! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I just dumped the version of Missile Command without Rob Fulop's initials, and verified in Stella that it works as advertised. Attached is the binary. ..Al MissileCommand_NoInitials.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I just dumped the version of Missile Command without Rob Fulop's initials, and verified in Stella that it works as advertised. Attached is the binary. ..Al Awesome!! It's good to finally have this. I looked at it in HOM3 and Atari changed 3 bytes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchysuperman Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Thanks again, Al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 All that remains then is the "why." Why take it out; furthermore, why after taking it out put it back in! Bee-zarre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jferio Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 All that remains then is the "why." Why take it out; furthermore, why after taking it out put it back in! Bee-zarre. My guess is, the ROM manufacturing industry has a similar problem to the printing industry. Unless a shop is clear on policy about files, no shop can throw away ANY file/information. (We've had customers come in after TEN YEARS wanting to reorder jobs we had art for.) So it's likely that some exec placed a reorder after the order of ROMs that were changed, without knowing, and requested the old file. Yes, the place could've looked, and seen there was a new file. However, in most cases, if a customer says, "we'd like more of this," you give them more of that, even if there's a more recent file to go with. Of course, I might also be blowing smoke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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