I read through some facts and puzzling things about Marathon, and I saw that a few people had tried to convert the binary string in the #101111011110111100001# is is a '7' line of a terminal on some level... I felt I had to correct them a bit; they used the decimal ASCII codes when converting, but the common binary letter codes are in hexadecimal code...(before converting to binary)
Here are the hexadecimal ASCII codes:
a-z: 61-7A
A-Z: 41-5A
0-9: 30-39
So the binary code for 'a' is 01100001 and is not in the terminal string. However, you can still split the binary string into 2 8-bit parts and a 5-bit part, like this:
10111101 11101111 00001
Converted to hexadecimal this is:
BD EF 1
Of course I can't accept the fact that there seems to be no hidden message here, so: you can also divide the string into these parts (and this is where the secret messages are):
1011110 1111011 1100001
It just happens, that if you divide it into THREE parts, you get parts with SEVEN bits. Coincidence? Yeah, right.
However, converting this to hexadecimal still shows nothing.
