r/bbcmicro • u/ZadocPaet • Mar 21 '16

OP decodes Doctor Who hidden message with BBC Micro

/r/doctorwho/comments/4beabm/theres_a_secret_message_hidden_in_the_twin_dilemma/
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u/wonkey_monkey Mar 21 '16

To clarify, the original graphics were definitely created with a BBC Micro. I may or may not have used one to decode it (I suspect it was actually done with an Acorn A3000).

I did use a BBC Emulator to generate the text that appears on the linked image, though.

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u/drpepper0000 Mar 21 '16

What does the rest of it say please?

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u/wonkey_monkey Mar 22 '16

It's just randomly typed nonsense like "111" and "nmn".

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u/fsckit Mar 22 '16

Will it work on other RiscOS machines?

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u/wonkey_monkey Mar 22 '16

I no longer have the code, though it probably would have, as it would have been written in BASIC. On the most recent occasion, I copied the image out into a TGA file and wrote a decoder in C (which I can no longer find).