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   Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 06:11:17 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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   @sehugg @ryanfb I remember this pretty well. I believe I found it on a copy of Softdisk. Fairly good chance it was before Softdisk #75. I still remember that "RUN" would return "NOT ME I'LL STAY HERE AND FIGHT" and stuff like that. To leave the fake command shell, you had to say "EGRESS", and there were Easter eggs built in to help you find that eventually.

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     Steven Hugg (sehugg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 06:11:18 JST Steven Hugg

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     • Ryan Baumann

     @ryanfb The only game I've seen that pulled that off was The Prisoner. But I came across enough corrupted or otherwise unrunnable binaries that if I saw this behavior I might not have understood that it was a joke ;)

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     Ryan Baumann (ryanfb@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 06:11:19 JST Ryan Baumann

     another obscure #Apple2 #AppleII #retrogaming #retrocomputing inquiry—ring any bells for anyone? I couldn’t turn anything up under this title for the Apple II, just legit games on other platforms. I strongly suspect a homebrew gag game, maybe even circulated among a small group of people…