Re: Rom 3 IIGS: Hear voices of creators

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...

>stephen e buggie <buggie@musca.unm.edu> wrote:
> 
>> If you have a ROM 3 IIgs, you can hear the development team shout "Apple
>> II" on a digitized voice.   This works only with the Rom 3.
>>
>> First, boot the Rom 3 IIgs with no disk so that you get the "rolling
>> Apple" going back and forth on the screen.  The screen message is
>> (approximately) "no disk" or "check system setup."
>> 
>> Then press these 4 keys simultaneously, then release them:
>> 
>> OPTION-COMMAND-SHIFT-N
> 
>Note that it partially works on a ROM 00 or 01: the same key sequence
>(at the same point) displays the names of the engineering team, 

    Although on the ROM 00 it displays the names on two separate
screens (there is a short pause when the first is shown) and the 
ROM 01 squeezed it onto a single page. When the ROM 3 came out,
they put the names back onto two separate screens again. 

>but they didn't have enough space in the ROM to include an audio clip, 
>so there is no sound.

    Actually I don't think they ever intended to put a digitized
sound clip in the early ROMs. The ROM 3 had double the space, and
I'm sure even after getting most of the important System 5 tool-
sets in there, they had some room to spare. Added a digitized
sound clip was a nice filler. :) (the other two ROM versions of
course could have done it as well, had they the extra ROM space).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca