> Something about having Cyrillic where the lower-case character set should be, just tickles my hacker heart.
We did the same on the ZX Spectrum in Greece for our programs: replace the lowercase latin letters with the keyboard-matching greek letters.
I still remember the vulgar ΣΨΡΟΛΛ? when the screen filled up and the machine asked your permission to scroll!
Ah yes, that often amuses me too .. I've gotten the Orics "Ready" prompt burned into my eyeballs after all these years, to see the same thing in Cyrillic is kind of hilarious and triggers my inner hacker nerd every single time.