On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Julian Richardson wrote:
> >> Olympic Decathalon (responsible for many a broken left/right arrow key
> >> required for the running competitions).
>
> is that the same game as Daley Thompson's Decathalon on the old
> Spectrum? Seem to remember that burning out a few keys - I didn't
> realise it was a Microsoft product though!!
I have no idea, but I would venture to guess the answer is no. The
Spectrum version was most likely written by some guy named Daley Thompson
:), perhaps inspired by MS Olympic Decathlon. MS-OD is copyright 1981 and
was written by Timothy W. Smith.
On a side note, on the Apple version, if you pressed RESET and then typed
TWS (the author's initials) real fast, you were dumped into the monitor.
This was an easter egg left in the original.
BTW, I compiled a list of over 140 Apple ][ easter eggs and wrote them all
up in a nice file, explaining where to find them and how to get to them. I
distributed it on the comp.sys.apple2 newsgroups a couple years back, and
if anyone's interested just e-mail me and I'll send you a copy.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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