[Coco] Easter Eggs in BASIC, Bill Gates and the CoCo

[Bill Loguidice]

Well, it's important to remember that the publisher owns the rights to our
work. Until those expire, there's nothing we can personally do with the
material. Even though it's stuck in queue hell at the moment, there will be
ebook versions available very soon on all major platforms. Although we'd
like the ebook pricing to be as low as possible, I suspect it will be
similar to the paperback (barring sales), unfortunately, because of the
type of publisher it is.

There are always advantages/disadvantages to going with a traditional
publisher (if you can) over self publishing. We would have had a lot more
flexibility with self publishing, but there are lots of pitfalls to that
approach as well. I still feel this was the best publishing avenue for this
material.

-Bill

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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:38 AM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>wrote:

> Any thoughts on making a new edition primarily electronic (ie
> iBooks/Kindle, etc.), to make it much more cost effective?
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, the CoCo 3 one was included because it was so "scandalous," but
> yes,
> > I agree that it would have been a good idea to have mentioned the prior
> > Easter Egg as a counterpoint and to put the severity of the reaction
> > (perhaps as an overreaction) into perspective. Definitely something to
> > insert into that section if we ever do a new edition (though keep in mind
> > that it's exceedingly rare for new editions of books like this to be
> > produced).
> >
> > -Bill
> >
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> > Bill Loguidice, Managing Director; Armchair Arcade,
> > Inc.<http://www.armchairarcade.com>
> > ===================================================
> > Authored Books<
> http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Loguidice/e/B001U7W3YS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_1>and
> > Film <http://www.armchairarcade.com/film>; About me and other ways to
> get
> > in touch <http://about.me/billloguidice>
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> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Tom <tgmaxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Interesting reads...
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.pagetable.com/?p=43
> >>>>
> >>>> http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Actually, the CoCo Easter Egg mentioned in the first article was
> >>> superseded in the CoCo 3:  Instead of printing MICROSOFT when a CLS
> >>> value of  9 or higher is entered, the CoCo 3 prints "Microware Systems
> >>> Corp."   However, for CLS 100, it prints "T. Harris & T. Earles", the
> >>> names of 2 of the 3 mugateers pictured in the ctrl-alt-reset graphic.
> >>>
> >>> These additional Microware eggs aren't mentioned in Boisy and Bill's
> >>> book, despite the book's considerable discussion of the mugateer
> >>> picture.  The negation of Microsoft's own CLS Easter Egg seems
> >>> particularly provocative.  Did you guy's know about this?
> >>
> >>
> >> Art,
> >>
> >> Yes, I knew about this, but it didn’t get mentioned because I didn’t
> think
> >> about it, unfortunately.
> >>
> >> If we ever get an opportunity to do a second edition, I’ll definitely
> put
> >> it in there (among other things).
> >>
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