Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game do anything?

Somebody in the answers already figured out that the code belonged to MS-DOS 3.30 COMMAND.COM as previously attested by Al Lowe. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;29580&#x2F;3986" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;29580&#x2F;3986</a>

No-one in the comments there seems to have twigged that OBEAh is simultaneously a hex address and a word for JuJu, magic. Which I suppose is appropriate in the context of a tribal initiation?

I love that games used to have jokes like this, and that someone was able to ask this question three decades later and get an answer from the author. I&#x27;m only sad I didn&#x27;t get this far in the game!

From Ralphs Interrupt List, INT 21H with AH=4D -&gt;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.delorie.com&#x2F;djgpp&#x2F;doc&#x2F;rbinter&#x2F;id&#x2F;88&#x2F;29.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.delorie.com&#x2F;djgpp&#x2F;doc&#x2F;rbinter&#x2F;id&#x2F;88&#x2F;29.html</a><p>INT 21 - DOS 2+ - GET RETURN CODE (ERRORLEVEL)<p>more in the link above. That took me like 30+ years ago back ;)

A bit like how Lorem Ipsum looks like Latin if you didn&#x27;t learn any in school.

While I don&#x27;t know if this is really true, but there was a time when chips like the 8080 ran at a speed that was close to AM frequencies. Programmers figured out that certain patterns produced sounds on their radio. So they would insert garbage code that accessed the address bus at the right speeds.<p>Perhaps this is something along those lines?

Was Eunuchs, an OS that runs only on 8088 CPUs, a joking reference to Linux?

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