| Save the Whales Explained | allynfolksjr |
"There it is, staring at us right in the face for over 6 years."
It seems one of the most prevailing mysteries in the calculator community, one that has sparked untold numbers of forum posts by newcomers, is what exactly the "Save the Whales" option does in MirageOS. Brandon Wilson, the creator of msd8x, has managed--through mystical and complicated methods that many others can only hope to one day understand, finally discovered the secret.
It does nothing.
Unless you count setting the bit to show that it's checked. That doesn't mean it was always that way. In MirageOS 1.0 the option actually does do something; if you create folders with certain names it will rename some built in commands by means if a token hook it installs. Just one example is that the humble fnInt( becomes JaSoNiSr33t(. You can find more information here, including instructions. Remember that you need to find a copy of MirageOS 1.0 to actually view this first hand in all of its glory. A download is provided on the information page. |
| 31 Dec 2006, 16:31 GMT |
