This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Minewsweeper solver
Article: 7779 of alt.hackers From: sal@panix.com (Salvatore Denaro) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Minewsweeper solver Date: 7 May 1995 21:28:31 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 36 Approved: plugh Message-ID: 3ojs3v$9ie@panix3.panix.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
james reese (jreese@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote: : dmaund10@scu.edu.au (Bushy) writes: : >There is actually a cheat for Minesweeper. I forget what the key combination : >is, but its about 5 keys. : and vilkata@iastate.edu (Dan Black) replies: : >x y z z y [shift] [enter] [enter] : The programmer who inserted this cheat clearly was a fan of the early : text adventure games, as XYZZY is a magical word in many of those games, : particularly the Zork series by Infocom. I used to play Advent on a PDP-Something-or-other in the early '80s at the ripe age of 13, it used xyzzy as a secret word. I think that was the first use of the word. : ObUmmHack: The lead singer in my band is always bitching about how the guitars : are too loud and his vocals are miked too low; he then continually turns up : his vocals on the PA system. So I took apart the PA and re-wired his mike : switch (he always uses the same one) to the one that controls the input : from the guitar amps. Now, every time he tries to turn up his vocals the : guitars seem to get louder. : Damn, I *hate* when that happens. OBHACK: (in following the above) building an FX box for my brother, it uses a RS timer to turn on a second FX box at a set timei interval. The effect is something to be heard, for two seconds the pedal is turned on and then for two seconds the pedal gets turned off. He has only used this with his distortion FX, the clueless always ask him how he gets that wild sound out of his guitar. -- Salvatore Denaro sal@panix.com Joon: You're out of your tree. Sam: Uh... it's not my tree... Yes, I use PGP. Benny: I think I'm going to be sick.
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