Aemulor 2.2 upgrade online

'How it works' article reveals Aemulor insides are made of code, not magical 32bit elves

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"We've added unnecessary bloat to our software and will reward the first person to spot it." Ahh, I must be getting old and cynical -- Dougal Dougal on 5/8/03 10:20AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Knowing Adrians obsession with code efficiancy, the Easter Egg will be a matter of a few hundred bytes! We have halved the Aemulor memory workspace requiremens afterall Cheers, Neil spellinn on 5/8/03 11:17AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I very nearly compressed it in fact, but eventually decided to be sensible! In fact it's about 1.5KB, but I thought it might make somebody laugh. Anyway, in 1995 I installed a Windows /mouse driver/ that was 4 times the size of Aemulor! So there Adrian adrianl on 5/8/03 11:45AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I was just teasing I remember once writing a program with a friend once and I think we put the easter egg in there when we'd only got a third of the way through as it provided light relief from more serious work -- Dougal Dougal on 5/8/03 1:02PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Jolly Gosh! Timothy609 on 5/8/03 4:40PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

If you've got a copy of PlayDays for RISC OS, then there's an easter egg in it: When it asks you for your name, type in "uzi ninemm", and the mouse pointer turns into a cross hairs, and you can shoot the characters. (I think it's that; it could be "uzininemm", or "uzi nine mm"). There's some other guns as well, but this is the most fun tribbles2 on 5/8/03 9:01PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

> ninemm No accident that that's an anagram of eminem I'm sure. adrianl on 5/8/03 10:54PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Is it true that a copy of aemulor can be found on the DVD version of 8 mile? -- Steve Knutson knutson on 6/8/03 12:19AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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