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Actually, I missed Millipede, here's what in it: DAVE STAUGAS LOVES BEATRICE HABLIG Anyone know the story behind this? First of all, Dave Staugas is/was a real person - true old school Atari assembler programmer who in the age of the Atari TOS was asked to do really complicated and awkward stuff. He was considerd a programmer thinking "around corners" - coming to very fundamentally different and at the same time truely brilliant solutions. In the Atari TOS and later with the Jaguar the company would ask him to figure out by software workarounds for hardware bugs, so that product development could go on without having to wait for a fixed batch of chips - or - alternatively - without ever requiring to run a fixed batch of chips. in the first place. For the most time when he was working at Atari in the 1196 Borregas Avenue Building in Sunnyvale I beleive to remember him driving a car with the California number plate "IO DRVR" :-) Bea(trice) Hablig is/was also a real person, but I am fully unaware if whe ever worked at Atari. She is/was a painter, photographer, installation and overall quite versatile artist. She studied art in University of California, Berkeley, and was living in Oakland - at least back in the mid nineties. She had numerous publications, appearances in local galleries, art projects and exhibitions in the greater SF Bay area starting in the at the brink of the eighties - the newest item on her web site is dated 2003. She is a very kind lady and it would certainly most appropriate to NOT be bothered with the code Dave left us in the ROMs - she might think it was not such a good idea... On the other hand I know for a fact that she and Dave were still quite good friends well after the time of the creation of any of those ROMs. I guess it could feel a bit strange if someone creates such line of text but I also still think that - considering it was one of the most efficient ways at that time to spread the sentence globally - is was a truely heartwarming gesture of Dave. Should anyone EVER get a hint where Dave might be today or what happend to him, i'd be extremely happy to learn about it, after all its well over a decade when we last met.... Have a trigger happy evening !