Go (Mac OS Classic)

Go
Developer: James R. Logan Jr. Publisher: Infinity Software Platform: Mac OS Classic Released in US: 1987 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text.

Hey now, you're a shodan, get your goban, let's play
Hey now, put a stone down, gonna throw down, all day
All that matters is Go
Oh my shooting stars, triple ko

♪ ♫ ♩ ♪ ♬

Go for the Mac. Go— Go— Go for the Mac.

Developer Credits

The programmer listed under "Additional Code" in the manual has two hidden credits in the game. One is a popup menu, accessed by clicking the word ATARI in the about box,

and the other is STR resource 256, titled "programmer".

Current programmer   V1.0
8/1/87
Jean Tantra
(415) 540-0822

Tantra's resume says he got the game "debugged, enhanced, polished and shipping" between June and September 1987.

Window Positioner

An inaccessible interface for specifying the default location and size of each window.

Error Handling

Dialog

John H. Lee is credited as the Product Manager.

String

STRS 0 at 000307:

Debug This Should never happen. Item=%d defaulted

Secret Message

A TEXT resource called "NoneOfTheAbove" contains this passage:

(Excerpt from the Preface to The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing)   It may be that there is no other way of educating people. Possibly, but I don't believe it. In the meantime it would be a help at least to describe things properly, to call things by their right names. Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:   "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themlelves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself--educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."