• An analysis of the original Spinball cartridge and source code
  

Project Status

• Digital Archeology - An investigation of the Spinball cartridge

• After discovering the Easter Egg in Star Ship (programmer's name appearing on the screen, see here), it was a logical choice next to investigate one of other games written by Mark Indictor.

• I chose Spinball because, and please correct me if I am wrong, I did not find any cheats or Easter Eggs mentioned for that game anywhere on the web.
  

• As it turned out, Spinball also contains a hidden way to show the programmer's credentials.
  

• Spinball was coded by Mark Indictor, and he coded a nice and witty mechanism to reveal a bit about himself:

• If you finish the game and achieve a new high-score, and if the last five digits of your score happen to be 91755, then name MARK INDICTOR will appear at the bottom of the screen:
  

• Why a score of 91755? My personal guess is that Mark was born on September 17th, 1955 :-)

• I have not yet been able to check if this Easter Egg is also contained in Flipper / Pinball, as I do not have a file of its binary. If someone has such, please contact me.
  

• To be continued...
  

• Again, this analysis would not have been possible without Vide.
• Many thanks to Malban for once more adding tons of new features I suggested or asked for.