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In PaintAsm.a: .FUNC Monkey ;--------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; FUNCTION Monkey: BOOLEAN; ; TST

by trop 16y ago

In PaintAsm.a: .FUNC Monkey ;--------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; FUNCTION Monkey: BOOLEAN; ; TST MonkeyLives ;IS THE MONKEY ACTIVE ? SGE 4(SP) ;YES IF >= ZERO NEG.B 4(SP) ;CONVERT TO PASCAL BOOLEAN RTS According to http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Monkey_Lives.txt http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story..., this was used to detect an keypress/mousemove/mousepress-generating testing tool and turn off a few things (Apple menu, File menu, and Quit command, in this case).

ja27 16y ago
Always mount a scratch monkey.
cosmicray 16y ago
MonkeyLives (aka low memory global address $100) was a system global that was usually off. If you saw it on, it indicated that the equivalent of a monkey was loose on the keyboard. IOW, don't do anything dangerous when true.