DB " HI HACKER! PLEASE DON'T CRACK THIS PROGRAM! IT WAS MADE BY"
DB " THE DEMO GROUP TSP. WE NEED THE MONEY TO BE ABLE TO KEEP ON"
DB " CODING GAMES FOR THE PC! THIS PROGRAM ISN'T HARD TO CRACK, SO"
DB " MAKE A DEMO INSTEAD TO PROVE YOUR SKILLS... IF YOU CRACK IT"
DB " WE WILL HATE YOU 4EVER! HAVE A NICE DAY! :-) "
I remember back in the day I always loved seeing these little messages in hexdumps of programs I was trying to understand.
I always particularly loved the tech scroller shown in-game:
TECHSCROLL DB 21 dup(1),'YEAH YOU ARE PROBABLY WONDERING HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A GAME LIKE THIS ON THE PC'
DB ' FIRST OF ALL THE GAME IS CODED IN 100 PERCENT ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE '
DB ' WE RUN IN A SPECIAL VGA 320 X 240 OR 360 X 350 IN 256 COLOR MODE HARDWARE IS USED FOR SCROLLING THE TABLE '
DB ' THE FLIPPERS AND DOT MATRIX SCOREPANEL ARE DELTA ANIMATED AND TO MAKE THE GRAPHICS RUN FLICKER FREE WE ARE USING RASTER INTERRUPTS THE PALETTE IS USED FOR FLASHING THE LIGHTS '
DB ' THE MUSIC ROUTINE HAS FEATURES SUCH AS SOFT CLIPPING AND INTERPOLATIVE MIXING '
DB ' ALTOGETHER THIS MAKES THE GAME POSSIBLE TO RUN ON A 12 MHZ 286 WITH SOUNDBLASTER MUSIC AT 16KHZ IN EACH FRAME'
DB 21 DUP (1),255
