{"id":347,"date":"2009-07-09T21:44:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T02:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2010-07-10T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:32:06","slug":"heypervertstoplookingatmypef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/heypervertstoplookingatmypef\/","title":{"rendered":"HeyPervertStopLookingAtMyPEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in my early teens, I played a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/marathon.bungie.org\/\"><cite>Marathon<\/cite><\/a> &#8212; the classic Macintosh first-person shooter by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bungie\">Bungie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a detail about <cite>Marathon &infin;<\/cite> that I haven&#8217;t seen documented anywhere, but I thought was very cool.<\/p>\n<p>If you tried to use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacsBug\">MacsBug<\/a> on a PowerPC machine to inspect (disassemble) <cite>M&infin;<\/cite>, none of the functions had names, except for one: <strong><code>HeyPervertStopLookingAtMyPEF<\/code><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(PEF stands for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Preferred_Executable_Format\">Preferred Executable Format<\/a>, the way Mac OS applications stored PowerPC code).<\/p>\n<p>Today, you can still play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bungie.net\/News\/content.aspx?type=topnews&#038;cid=12664\"><cite>Marathon 2: Durandal<\/cite> on XBox Live<\/a> for a price, or <a href=\"http:\/\/source.bungie.org\/get\/\">play any of the trilogy for free on a computer<\/a>. Sadly though, I don&#8217;t think the game has aged as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambrosiasw.com\/games\/evn\/\">Escape Velocity<\/a>, which is still a blast today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in my early teens, I played a lot of Marathon &#8212; the classic Macintosh first-person shooter by Bungie. There&#8217;s a detail about Marathon &infin; that I haven&#8217;t seen documented anywhere, but I thought was very cool. If you tried to use MacsBug on a PowerPC machine to inspect (disassemble) M&infin;, none of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,1],"tags":[455,457,456,454,453,22],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reverse-engineering","category-uncategorized","tag-games","tag-joypeffpwpc","tag-macsbug","tag-marathon","tag-memories","tag-powerpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}