Ballaz

Ballaz
Developer: Eric Yeh Platform: Mac OS Classic Released internationally: June 1992 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused graphics.

Ballaz is an unusual shooter in which two ships co-operate to clear the screen of enemies by patrolling the perimeter and firing inward. (But it would also be a good name for a Bratz × NBA collab.)

Unused Sprites

The game's sprites are stored as ICON resources, with each batch followed by a corresponding set of masks. The last three icons (IDs 101–103) and their single accompanying mask (ID 104) do not seem to be used.

Hidden License Terms

In pre-8.5 operating systems, the first byte of the owner resource (0x42: decimal 66 or capital letter B) is misinterpreted as defining the length of the ensuing string, permitting only these 66 characters to appear in the Finder's Get Info box:

allaz by Eric Yeh Copyright 1992 This program may be distrubted fr

Post-8.5, the byte is correctly processed as a letter, but there still isn't enough room in the window to display the entire message.

Ballaz by Eric Yeh Copyright 1992 This program may be distrubted freely and may not

The actual text of bllz resource 0 reads:

Ballaz by Eric Yeh Copyright 1992 This program may be distrubted freely and may not be modified (and cannot be sold for any amount of stinking capitalistic profits or money)