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- **** E A S T E R E G G H U N T R E S U L T S *****
Collected from various sources; the names in each entry show where
I got the info, which may or may not be where the egg was first
discovered. As usual, should you be killed or captured ... oops,
wrong tape. No warranties, express or implied; your milage may
vary, and there may be weather tomorrow. Contributions of additional
Easter Eggs gleefully accepted and will be posted on a totally random
basis; please send them to jcmorris@mitre.org
Last update: 6/8/92
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Product: Windows 3.0
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Source: unknown
Press and hold F3
Type the four characters WIN3
Release F3
Hit the backspace key
The display can be cleared by pressing the left mouse button.
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Product: Windows 3.1
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Source: Tom Tanida (tanida@esosun.css.gov)
1. Hold down Cntl and Shift simultaneously (keep holding them down for all
of the following steps).
2. Select Program Manager's Help menu option, and select "About Program
Manager".
3. When the box pops up, double click inside one of the four panes in the
Windows 3.1 logo.
4. Click OK.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 to see a flag waving.
6. Repeat steps 2-4 again to see the credits. (Is that a picture
of Bill Gates there? :-) )
(Note: my tests indicate that if you try this a third time you'll
get nothing; try it a fourth time and you're back at the waving
flag. jcm)
The display terminates immediately when the OK button is pressed (step 4).
Some followup to the Windows 3.1 egg, from contributions by:
Mark Scase (coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk)
Jill Patterson (bytor@milton.u.washington.edu)
JT Anderson (jta@locus.com)
Andrew Turner (act@softserver.canberra.edu.au)
You don't have to be in Program Manager to do this. It seems to
work in any "About" box of an application provided with Windows
3.1 (eg file manager, write, paintbrush, clock etc).
The character appearing in the graphic with the name scroll changes each
time you see it; there are four distinct figures:
a bald man (Steve Ballmer)
a man with a beard and dark hair,
a man with glasses and fair hair (Bill Gates), and
a Teddy bear...apparently the logo of bugs@microsoft
The Bear is a Microsoft euphemism for someone who comes along and bonks
programmers for introducing bugs into test code(as in Smokey the Bear, who
crushes your butts). The concept of the Bear is so much a part of debugging
at Microsoft that certain, undcoumented functions used for testing Windows
components such as USER.EXE are named things like Bear351."
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Product: Excel 3.0 for the PC
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Source: Aaron Wallace (aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU) who credits Computer
Currents for the info
Formula Goto the *last* cell: IV16384
Scroll until this is the only cell visible, in the upper left corner of the
screen.
Set its row height and column width to 0
Double click on the little button in the upper left corner.
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Product: Excel 3.0 for the Mac
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Source: Arthur Evans (ae@sei.cmu.edu)
Under Excel 3.0: Open a new worksheet and select a cell. Using STYLE in
the FORMAT menu, give it style EXCEL. Open the About... menu from the
Apple menu click in the Excel symbol. Keep waiting -- there are two
screens.
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Product: Word for Windows, v1.1
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Source: Todd Lutz (tlutz@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com)
Here is a hidden feature of Word for Windows:
1. Turn CAPS LOCK on.
2. Choose Format, Define Styles, Options.
3. In the Based On field, select Normal.
4. You will get an error message, select OK.
5. Select Cancel.
6. Select Help, About.
7. Make sure your mouse cursor is inside the help box, then press the
following four keys all at the same time: OPUS
You should get some fireworks with the authors names scrolling on the
screen.
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Product: Word for Windows, v2.0
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Source: nancyb@ryko.enet.dec.com (nancy b.)
To see some cute animation, a not-so-subtle jab at WordPerfect,
and a list of those responsible for "wizardry", "quality",
etc... on the Word for Windows 2.0 project:
1) Start WfW 2.0.
2) In the Tools menu, click on Macro.
3) For the Macro Name, type spiff
4) Click on Edit.
5) Delete the lines Sub MAIN and End Sub
6) In the File menu, choose Close.
7) You will be asked if you want to save the changes.
Click on Yes.
8) In the Help menu, click on About.
9) Click on the Word icon in the upper left, and enjoy ;-).
If you have high resolution drivers, you might not see that awful
green WordPerfect monster or the little people jumping up and
down in glee after they make it go away. If all you see is the
fireworks with the credits rolling in the foreground, then this
is the case. Change to a lower resolution (800x600 or 640x480)
driver to see the first part also.
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Product: Other Windows applications on a PC
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Application: Solitaire game distributed with Windows
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Source: Joe Robison (joero@microsoft.com)
From: pfeil@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Hank Pfeil-Alumnus)
>
>Here's a neat trick you can play on your computer: Start "Solitaire"
>... Now, if the card game only had a cheat mode....
There is. If you're playing "Draw Three" you can hold down
Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click on the deck to draw single cards
(just don't hit the Del key!)
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Application: Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0
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Source: Rich Santalesa and David Harvey's column in 6/92 _Computer_Shopper_
With NDW 2.0 in the foreground, hold down the N, D, and W keys, then click
HELP -> ABOUT, then double-click on the Symantec icon in the upper left
corner. The response is a group of photos of the NDW development team,
plus a scrolling title bar with quotes from Shakespeare.
[I haven't tested this. Can anyone confirm that it works? jcm]
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Product: Macintosh hardware and OS
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Source: Louis Koziarz (lnk10562@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
Product: Mac SE
Get into the debugger
Set PC to 41D789A (i.e., >G 41D89A at the prompt)
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Source: Luke Mewburn (s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au)
Product: Macintosh II models (exact types uncertain); Mac SE/30 (hardware)
Set the system clock to the American release of the machine [what are
the valid values? jcm]
Reboot, holding down command-option-model name characters (e.g., on
an FX you hold down cmnd-opt-f-x)
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Source: Louis Koziarz (lnk10562@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
(and many, many others)
Product: Mac SE, Mac II ci
On a Macintosh SE, hit the programmer's switch, then type G 41D89A
On a Macintosh IIci, first set the date to 09/20/89, then restart
the machine and hold down Command+Opt+c+i during the reboot.
And if you're lucky enough to have an original copy of MultiFinder,
the About box has a simple tremendous list of credits. But all
is not lost in the newer versions. Leave the `About MultiFinder'
box open for about an hour. It will turn into the message [rot13]
V jnag zl, V jnag zl, V jnag zl ybbx naq srry.
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Source: Arthur Evans (ae@sei.cmu.edu)
Product: System 7
Under System 7 with the Finder running, select "About Finder" on the
Apple menu with the OPTION key to see a list of all developers. Be
patient, it takes a while. Using OPTION-COMMAND does that and also
turns the cursor into a smiley.
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Product: WORD 4 for the Mac
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Source: Louis Koziarz (lnk10562@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
Call up the "About Word..." dialog box
Press and hold the command key
Click on the flying W logo
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Product: Commodore 128
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Source: Norman St. John Polevaulter (MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu)
And of course, going WAY back, there is the credits and anti-war message
you could coax out of a Commodore 128 by typing:
SYS 32800,123,45,6
in BASIC.
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Product: Amiga hardware and software
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Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu)
On the Amiga (NB), perss and hold the following keys:
LeftShift, LeftAlt, RightShift, RightAlt
Now press one of the 10 function keys. (Keep those four keys down!)
Each function key produces a different message.
To get the rude message, insert a disk into the internal drive.
(Still holding down all those keys?) Now eject it.
The rude message has been deleted from newer versions of KickStart.
Get 1.2/33.166 or earlier.
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Source: Joe Smith (jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM)
With an Amiga running AmigaDOS-1.2, hold down the left-shift + left-alt +
right-shift + right-alt and then press and release F1, then F2, etc.
This will display in the title bar the nicknames of the designers.
Here's a description from 2 years ago:
:Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
:Subject: Re: silly messages
:Message-ID: <5153@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
:Date: 10 Apr 89 18:07:32 GMT
:
:In article <1720@wpi.wpi.edu> pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) writes:
:>Were those silly little messages in workbench taken out in v1.3 OS?
:>The ones I am refering to can be seen when one hits LS-LA-RS-RA-Fx
:>while looking at the wkbnch screen...
:>
:>just wondering...
:
:Coincidentally, I forgot to metion in my last posting on this subject that
:it is not just on the workbench screen -- workbench must be loaded, i.e.,
:somewhere the line loadwb had to have been executed before any of this
:happens. Sadly, the messages are not still there, or if they are, they are
:brought up in some other way in V1.3.
:
:I retraced my steps so to speak, and have come up with the last 2 messages
:mentioned in that last post. Both shifts, both Alt's, F10, pop out df0:
:disk for one message. Then, WHILE STILL HOLDING ALL OF THAT (important!!),
:position the pointer in the screen drag bar (at the top), hold down the
:left mouse button (or simulate it by also catching the left A key next
:to left Alt) and reinsert the disk.
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Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us)
Version 1.0 of the Amiga OS Workbench had credits for the hardware
and software team hidden tucked into some unused bytes. They were accessed
by holding down 6 keys and pressing a 7th. By holding down the same six
keys _and_ ejecting the internal floppy disk you could get:
"We built the Amiga..."
and when you pushed the floppy back in:
"...and Commodore f**ked it up!"
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Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com)
katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago) writes:
> Version 1.0 of the Amiga OS Workbench had credits for the hardware
^^^--- 1.2
> and software team hidden tucked into some unused bytes.
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Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu)
Here's what my private archives have to say on the subject of Amiga
Easter Eggs. Like Mr. Morris, I have a collection of these.
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~From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
You have to be running KickStart 1.2 (33.166 I think, I can't remember if
they were all there in the 33.180 release).
Now, press the following all at the same time,
Left-Shift Left-Alt Right-Alt Right-Shift
and then press one of the 10 functions keys (while still holding down
the above four) and you get one of 10 different messages in the menu
bar.
Now for the fun bit.
Do the above, and then while holding down all 5 keys, insert a disk in the
internal drive, and you get *another* message, and for the classic conclusion
after all this (still holding down all 5 keys?) eject the disk, and the
message:
We made Amiga, they fucked it up
appears in the menu bar.
Now another Amiga hidden message (also in KS1.2).
Go into preferences, on the first screen, there are pictures of two mice,
one to set the double-click speed and one to set the mouse speed. Click
on each of the buttons on the mice 5 time in the following order.
1234 1234 1234 1234 1234
/------\ /------\
| 1 2 | | 3 4 |
| | | |
| | | |
+------+ +------+
Now select printer setup, scroll all the way up the list of possible
printers, and then all the way down.
Then the title bar of the preferences window changes to something like
(it been a *long* time since I tried this):
Congratulations =RJ=
Appearantly just as the guys finished the preferences tool, RJ Michel, one
of the Amiga designers became a father (everybody say aaahh!).
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Source: Jim Shaffer (jms@vanth.UUCP)
Dale Luck, formerly of the Amiga development team, tells a story about
hacking the system software when the custom chips were still on
breadboards. To prevent blowing out the hardware, he put an anti-static
mat on the floor and convinced everyone to go barefoot.
They would also dance during late-night compiler runs to prevent falling
asleep. One of the hidden messages in version 1.2 credits "Moral Support:
Joe Pillow and the Dancing Fools."
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Source: Jim Shaffer (jms@vanth.UUCP)
Incidentally, I just re-checked my version of KickStart 1.2. The "We made
the Amiga, they..." sequence is replaced by "The Amiga - Born a Champion,
Still a Champion." I couldn't find anything at all in KickStart 1.3.
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Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us)
I wrote:
>> Version 1.0 of the Amiga OS Workbench had credits for the hardware
>>and software team hidden tucked into some unused bytes. They were accessed
>>by holding down 6 keys and pressing a 7th. By holding down the same six
>>keys _and_ ejecting the internal floppy disk you could get:
>
>> "We built the Amiga..."
>
>> and when you pushed the floppy back in:
>
>> "...and Commodore f**ked it up!"
>
>> Sour grapes.
and Joe Morris replied:
>I keep a small summary of the triggers for Easter eggs which people report
>on the net and occasionally repost them in response to a query. (Not
>*every* query or I would be reposting on almost a daily basis...)
>
>So...do you know (or does anyone on the net know) the exact sequence of
>keystrokes needed to generate this egg? Is it *any* six keys, or is there
>some specific set or sequence of keys? If possible it would be nice to
>have someone actually try them (I don't have an Amiga to test) since
>memory isn't always reliable as I repeatedly discover...
Well, it's been a long time since I did this and I probably have it
wrong, and I no longer have a copy of that version, etc., etc.
But...I think that one held down both shift keys, both alt keys and
both "Amiga" keys, and pressed the function keys in order, to get the
ten credits. The delete key was held down and the disk was ejected to
get the first part of the last message, and pushed back in to get the
second part.
This is fairly well known in the Amiga community, and the fun stopped
when the biggest Amiga magazine published this little gem. Unfortunetly
I had to get rid of all my old copies of "Amiga World" so I cannot check.
P.S. Yes, I typed this on an old Amiga 1000, but don't worry; I'm not
dangerous.
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Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com)
katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago) writes:
> But...I think that one held down both shift keys, both alt keys and
> both "Amiga" keys, and pressed the function keys in order, to get the
> ten credits. The delete key was held down and the disk was ejected to
^^^^^^^^^^--- mouse button.
> get the first part of the last message, and pushed back in to get the
> second part.
It also only works with rev 1.2 of the OS. There was also another egg
hidden in the printer preferences. It was a lot less obvious. :->
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Source: rivero@vxd.mdcbbs.com
In article <1992Jan2.122451.18215@news.stolaf.edu>, seebs@asgaard.acc
.stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet) writes:
> A quick search through KS2.04 reveals only two things that I noticed:
>
> 1] something like "what secret message?". (don't remember - I checked this
> a few months back.)
> 2] in hex, FE ED C0 ED BA BE. :)
>
The hidden Amiga messages were on the Amiga 1000, and then only on earlier
units. One of the messages, accessed by holding down both "Amiga" keys and
two other keys WHILE inserting a disk into the floppy drive, was rather
explicit in its opinion of Commodore after they acquired the Amiga company.
Once word of that message got out, a purge was ordered of all hidden messages.
BTW, the inside top cover of the Amiga is autographed by the machine
developers (and somebody's dog).
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Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com)
In article <1992Jan23.082612.29135@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun
.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>Has any diabolical usage occurred where the screen depicts a mouse, and you
>drag the *real* mouse around for the purpose of pressing the button(s) on the
>mouse on the screen?
An undocumented feature of the Amiga 1.2 O/S. If you brought up the mouse
preferences and clicked all four mouse buttons in the picture, then clicked
an invisible gadget next to the date, the window title changed to a cute
message about the programmer's SO.
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Source: Norman St. John Polevaulter (MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu)
While we're at it, the new OS2.04 has its own set of secret messages.
When workbench is running, hold down control, alt, and shift, and start
selecting items from the leftmost Workbench menu. It may take a few
tries to get them, but they're in there.
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Product: Tandy ColorComputer II
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Source: Jyri J. Virkki (j_virkki@upr2.clu.net)
1) If you hold down <Alt>+<Control> and press the Reset button, you get
a digitized image of the three guys who wrote the echancements to the ROM's.
As an additional bonus, this trick served the purpose of performing a
cold-boot of the computer, allowing you to break out of those annoying
programs (mostly games) that required you to turn the machine off to
get out of them.
2) In the built-in BASIC, you could specify CLS n (0<=n<=8) to clear the
screen with various colors. If you specified numbers out of range, but
<100, you would get an error message as expected, but the first time
you did CLS n with n>=100, you would get a short message, again with
the names of these individuals. Subsequent attempts would just give
you the standard error message.
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Product: Acorn Archimedes
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~From: Andrew Brooks (arb@computing.lancaster.ac.uk), who credits
them to Julian Wright, wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
On RISC-OS 2.00: SYS 68,59243844
On RISC-OS 3.00: SYS 68,60816742
(no indication of what you get from these triggers)
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Product: None Of The Above (TM)
---------------------------------------------------
Source: Zebee Johnstone (zebee@ucs.adelaide.edu.au)
The Data General AOS/VS 16 bit OS responds to XYZZY with "nothing happens".
The new 32 bit AOS/VS II responds with "twice as much happens"
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Source: Tim Shoppa (shoppa@erin.caltech.edu)
Typing "SHOW USERS" at the RT11 prompt (a single-user system) gives
a response of "NOBODY BUT YOU!".
-------------------------------
Source: Denis Fortin (fortin@zap.uucp)
Also in RT-11:
Typing HELP FOO
produced NO HELP IS AVAILABLE FOR FOO
But typing HELP ME
produced NO HELP IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU
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Source: Joe Newcomer and many others:
under TECO, originally under TOPS-10 and subsequently ported to other
platforms (including this Easter egg):
Type the command:
MAKE LOVE
which is supposed to create a new file named LOVE using TECO. The
command executes as intended, but only after responding with a message:
Not war?
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Source: Barry Ferris (ferris@netcom.COM)
of course, this wasn't the only TECO egg...type in:
$ make war
to get
not love?
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Source: Earle Ake (ake@dayton.saic.com)
VMS Easter Eggs:
$ anal/system
VAX/VMS System analyzer
SDA> show cluster/scs
VAXcluster data structures
--------------------------
--- SCS Listening Process Directory ---
Entry Address Connection ID Process Name Information
------------- ------------- ------------ -----------
80308800 071D0000 SCS$DIRECTORY What city, plez?
803087A0 071D0001 MSCP$TAPE NOT PRESENT HERE
80308740 071D0002 MSCP$DISK NOT PRESENT HERE
---------------------------------------------------
Product: Hewlett-Packard products
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Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us)
In a prior article Norman Soley writes:
>In a prior article Steve VanDevender writes...
>>The weirdest thing I found in my HP 150 is that the phrase "My
>>mind is going..." is burned in one of the ROMs. I have no idea
>>why it's there or if it would ever appear on the screen. My pet
>>theory is that it's a diagnostic that appears if some of the ROMs
>>are missing (a la the HAL dismantling scene in 2001).
>More likely someone noticed there were a few unused bytes at the end of the
>ROM and slid that in as a joke. There is the well know story of the "resist
>the draft" message that's stored in some user inaccesable (usually) part of
>someone's LOGO and one or more of the VAX chips has "VAX, for those who care
>enough to steal the best" in Russian on an unused part of the mask....
>In all cases the companies involved claimed no knowledge of these when
>discovered.
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Source: Mik Butler (mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com)
>If I remember correctly there was an easter egg in the 150 that would
>cause it to respond to XYZZY in the right circumstances.
>The 'My mind is going' may well have been the response.
>
>Rodney Brown, Co-Cam Computer Group, ACSNet: rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind
is going..." message, send or type the sequence <esc>&a?
---------------------------------------------------
Source: Steve VanDevender (stevev@grayback.uoregon.edu)
In article <44880008@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Mik
Butler) writes:
>
> To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind
> is going..." message, send or type the sequence <esc>&a?
Thank you thank you thank you. I discovered the "My mind is
going..." message when I was in larval stage not long after I got
my 150 and wrote a memory scanner. Only now, almost eight years
later, do I know how to get the message. It indeed works on my
HP 150 with Rev B roms.
============================================================
The following is a massive summary of Macintosh Easter Eggs compiled
by Bryan Kendig of Princeton, and forwarded to me by Kees Huyser.
Please send any comments or updates to this FAQ list directly to
Bryan at bskendig@phpenix.Princeton.edu.
----------------------------------------------------------------
The Macintosh Secret Trick List
compiled by Brian Kendig (bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
Fifth revision.
Please report corrections to me, no matter how insignificant!
You may (of course!) distribute information about these tricks freely,
but please keep my name on this list if you pass it around whole.
New info about tricks will be attributed and very much appreciated.
The information below includes what to do to make a trick happen, then
what the trick really is. If you don't want the trick spoiled (you
don't want to know what it does until you try it yourself), you can
display only the instructions for making it happen (the lines that
begin with an equals-sign) with the Unix command
grep '^=' tricks
where "tricks" is the name of this file.
Here's a not-a-trick that every Tom, Dick, and Harriet out there has
been reporting to me: Press Command-Option-Escape to kill the process
currently in the foreground. This is useful if your machine is taking
way too long to finish something and is ignoring you, or if your
machine has crashed -- sometimes you can use this trick to regain
control of your machine long enough to save your work and restart your
Mac. (After you use this trick, you should generally restart as soon
as possible.)
A lot of people have been telling me about this, but it's not a trick!
It's a documented feature of System 7. However, since lots of people
never saw it in the manuals, I might as well have it here too.
= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=
= Hardware
=
= Macintosh Plus
= From the debugger, enter "G 40E118".
=
This gives you a "Stolen from Apple Computer" message.
= Macintosh SE
= Hit the interrupt switch (the button with the broken circle on it, on
= the left side of your machine closer to the back) to go into the
= built-in debugger, and enter "G 41D89A".
=
Four bitmap pictures of the Macintosh development team appear as a
slideshow. Reboot (hit the button closer to the front, with the
triangle on it) to get out of the endless cycle.
= Macintosh Classic
= Hold down Command-Option-x-o right after you turn on or reboot the
= machine.
=
The Classic starts up from a minimal ROM-disk which contains
System 6.0.3, Finder 6.1x, and AppleShare. (This version of the
System is not recommended to run the Classic under.) If you look at
the ROM-disk with a program able to see invisible files (like ResEdit
or MacTools), you'll find folders hidden there bearing the names of
the Classic designers.
= Macintosh IIci
= Set the system date to 9/20/89 (the release date of the IIci), and set
= your monitor to 8-bit color. Restart while holding Command-Option-c-i.
=
You'll see a color picture of the IIci design team. Click the mouse
to continue.
= Macintosh IIfx
= Set the system date to 3/19/90 (the release date of the IIfx), and
= restart while holding down Command-Option-f-x.
=
You'll see a color picture of the IIfx design team. Click the mouse
to continue.
= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=
= System
= ("7.0" means "7.0.0" or "7.0.1".)
=
= Multifinder 1.0 (distributed with System Software prior to 6.0)
= Hold down Command and Option while selecting "About Multifinder"
= from the bottom of the Apple menu.
=
A scrolling list of credits appears.
(Contributed by Seth Theriault)
= Multifinder 6.0
= Search the STR# resources with ResEdit.
=
One STR# resource contains three strings:
"I want my"
"I want my"
"I want my l--k and f--l"
(Anybody know how to get this message to come up without having to
snoop around in ResEdit?)
(Contributed by Tony Cooper)
= System 6.0.7 or 7.0
= Take a look through the data fork of the System File (with MacSnoop
= or MacTools, or open it with MS Word). (It's short.)
=
The string "Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system
software factory!" is at the end of the data fork.
(Contributed by Kevin Bolduan)
= System 6.0.7J (Kanjitalk)
= Set the clock to January 1, 1992, and restart.
=
The startup screen says "Happy new year" in Japanese.
(Contributed by Junio Hamano)
= Finder 7.0
= Hold down Option while choosing "About This Macintosh".
=
(The menu option changes to "About the Finder".) The original picture
of the mountains from System 1.0 appears. If the creation date of the
invisible "Desktop Folder" is May 13, 1991, or later, the names of all
the Finder developers through Mac and Lisa history also scroll by.
Hold down Command-Option while choosing "About" to get a goofy-face
cursor.
= Caches 7.0.1
= Option-click on the version number in the upper right-hand corner.
=
The "040" icon will whoosh over, revealing the name of the programmer.
= Caps Lock 7.0.1 (on a PowerBook)
= Turn on balloon help, press Caps Lock, and point to the up-arrow icon
= in the menu bar.
=
The balloon help reads: "This file allows your Macintosh TIM or
Derringer to display an icon..." (These were the working names of the
PowerBooks; Apple forgot to change the extension before System 7.0.1
was released!)
= Color Control Panel 7.0
= Option-click on the Sample Text a few times.
=
The strings "by Dean Yu" "& Vincent Lo" alternate.
= Labels Control Panel 7.0
= Delete all the label names in the Labels control panel, and reboot.
=
The labels are now "None," "a", "l", "a", "n", "j", "e", "f".
= Map Control Panel 1.x (released with System 6) and 7.0
= Type MID as the city name, and click Find. Also try: clicking on the
= version number, option-clicking on Find, opening the control panel
= while you hold down shift and/or option, clicking somewhere in the Map
= and dragging off the edge of it, or copying the map from the Scrapbook
= and pasting it while the Map control panel is open.
=
The stored point MID is actually "Middle of Nowhere", an insignificant
location in the middle of the South Atlantic. (This one was added
in version 7.0.)
Clicking on the "7.0" puts "v7.0, by Mark Davis" into the city name
field until you release the mouse button.
Option-clicking on Find repeatedly will take you alphabetically to
every city the Map knows.
Opening the control panel while you hold down the shift key will
display a magnified map (the resolution is the same, so it's very jagged).
Opening it with option held down magnifies it more, and shift-option
magnifies it even more to the point of being really blocky.
Dragging off the edge of the map will scroll around the world.
You can paste a new picture into the control panel; the Scrapbook that
comes with System 7 includes a particularly good color map.
(Contributed by Takeshi Miyazaki and Doc O'Leary)
= Memory Control Panel 7.0 (on a machine capable of virtual memory)
= Turn on virtual memory and hold down Option while clicking on the
= pop-up menu used to choose a hard drive for your swapfile.
=
This brings up a hierarchical pop-up menu with the names of the
programmers; each name points to a submenu with a few comments.
(Contributed by Povl Hessellund Pedersen)
= Monitors Control Panel 7.0
= Click the version number (7.0) in the control panel window. While you
= hold down the mouse button, tap Option several times.
=
When you click, a box pops up with the names of the people who wrote
Monitors. Pressing Option makes the smiley face stick out its tongue.
After tapping Option several times, the names begin to get rearranged
and some first and last names get replaced with "Blue" or "Meanies".
= Puzzle Desk Accessory 7.0
= You can copy the picture of two linked squares from the Scrapbook
= and paste it into the Puzzle.
=
In fact, you can paste any picture into the Puzzle, and it will be
sized to fit. You can also copy the picture from the Puzzle and
look at the clipboard to see what it will look like solved.
(Contributed by Povl H. Pedersen)
= Finder 7.0 and MacsBug
= Turn on Balloon Help and point to the MacsBug file.
=
The balloon reads: "This file provides programmers with information
proving that it really was a hardware problem..."
= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=
= Other Software
=
= Adobe Photoshop
= Hold down the Option key and select "About Photoshop".
=
A dialog crediting "Knoll Software" as the original designers appears.
(Contributed by Karl-Koenig Koenigsson)
= Claris CAD
= Hold down the Option key and select "About Claris CAD".
=
A system configuration summary appears.
(Contributed by Karl-Koenig Koenigsson)
= Disinfectant
= Select "About Disinfectant."
=
A bitmap photo of John Norstad appears in one half of the dialog,
while in the other half an animated sequence of virus names march out
while the Monty Python theme song plays, until they get stomped by
a huge foot.
(Contributed by Dave Claytor)
= FlashWrite II
= Hold down Option as you select "About FlashWrite II" under the "star" logo.
=
A Mr. Mojo Risin' quotation appears.
(Contributed by Dave Claytor)
= HyperCard 2.x
= Hold down Option as you select "About Hypercard...".
=
You get (in 2.1 only) a dialog describing your system setup, and (in
either 2.0 or 2.1) the chooser name, if you've entered one, appears
in the "HyperCard by" title. (That is, if you entered "Joe Cool" as
your name in the Chooser (6.0) or Sharing Setup (7.0), the top of the
window will read "HyperCard by Joe Cool".
Also, on a Quadra, you will be told your system is a "Macintosh Macintosh".
(Thanks to Seth Theriault for more info.)
= Installer 3.x (this only seems to work under System 6, or am I wrong?)
= After dismissing the initial welcome dialog, type "ski".
=
A humorous list of the developers will appear, and you will be able
to choose from five wait-cursors: the hand with the moving fingers
(standard), a spinning globe, the familiar spinning disc, the even
more familiar wristwatch, and dots that move.
(Contributed by John DeRosa)
= Jam Session
= Choose "About Jam Session".
=
The credits are displayed on the label of a record, and you can hear
it click (as an old record does after it's played to the end). When
you click the mouse to dismiss the dialog, you hear the scratching
noise of the needle being lifted off the record.
(Contributed by Joe Campbell)
= KiwiEnvelopes! 3.1
= Choose "About KiwiEnvelopes!".
=
A letter is deposited into a mail truck which then rolls off the screen.
After it leaves, a marquee shows the names of the development team.
(Contributed by Dave Claytor)
= MacDraw Pro
= Hold down Option while selecting "About MacDraw Pro".
=
The dialog shows your system setup.
(Contributed by Dave Claytor)
= MacPaint 2.0 (only the first few copies, before Claris caught it)
= Hold down Tab and Space while choosing "About MacPaint".
=
A bitmap of a well-known painting of a nude zebra-striped woman atop a
white zebra appears.
= Microsoft Excel 3.0
= Open a new spreadsheet, then go to cell IV16384. (Press Cmd-Right
= then Cmd-Down to jump there.) Use the scroll bars to scroll down and
= right more until only that cell is showing, then set that cell's width
= and height both to 0. All that will remain in your window will be the
= little square in the upper-left-hand corner that you normally click on
= to select the entire spreadsheet; click on it.
The contents of the window will be replaced by a little Lotus-stomping
then a list of Excel's programmers and beta-testers. When your normal
Excel window comes back, scroll away to keep the show from repeating.
(Contributed by Evan Torrie)
= Here's another: set the style of any cell to "excel" (by selecting
= "Format Styles..." and typing "excel" without the quotes). Then choose
= "About Excel..." from the Apple menu and click on the big Excel icon.
=
A brief animation ("So good, it hurts.") alternates with the names of
the developers ("Recalc or Die!").
(Contributed by Rob Griffiths)
= Microsoft Word 3.01 and 4.x
= Spellcheck the word "childcare".
=
The spell-checker will suggest one word: "kidnaper" (sic).
(Contributed by Adam Shostack)
= Microsoft Word 4.0
= Select "About Microsoft Word" and command-click on the Word icon.
=
The resulting dialog gives the names of beta-testers.
= Norton Utilities 1.1
= Command-click the little rhomboid just in front of the string
= "Version 1.1" in the About box.
=
A list of the developers appears.
(Contributed by Karl-Koenig Koenigsson)
= QuicKeys 2
= Open the macro definition window, and click on the logo to bring
= up a credits window. Wait for about half a minute.
=
A bunny walks across the window beating a drum. After it crosses,
the message "QuicKeys keeps on going!" is displayed.
(Contributed by Kenny Wong)
= ResEdit 2.1
= Turn on Balloon Help and point to the ResEdit file.
=
The balloon reads: "... Apple recommends that you use ResEdit only
on expendable copies of your files."
(Contributed by Takeshi Miyazaki.)
= ResEdit 2.x
= Hold down Shift, Option, and Command as you choose "About ResEdit."
=
You get the chance to enter "pig mode" (oink oink oink).
When you put ResEdit into pig mode, resources will be compacted and
purged each time ResEdit goes through its event loop (several times a
second). (However, since this makes ResEdit slower, it's not of much
use outside Apple.)
(Contributed by Ian Neath.
(Info about "pig mode" from Chris Webster and Russell Street.)
Mr. Street adds that if you turn on pig mode while running ResEdit
from a floppy disk the disk will "oink" a few times each second (most
easily heard on an old Plus in a quiet room), but when I tried this
my machine crashed. ;)
= Simple Player (for QuickTime) 1.0
= Hold down Option as you select "About Simple Player..."
=
The two movie frames now have greyscaled cats in them.
(Contributed by Scott Ryder)
= SoundEdit
= Choose "About SoundEdit".
=
A burning fuse bomb "system error" blows up.
= Speed Disk (from Norton Utilities 1.1)
= Command-click the little rhomboid just in front of the string
= "Version 1.1".
=
The large letters that make up the name "SPEED DISK" swap themselves
pair-by-pair until the name eventually unjumbles itself again.
(Contributed by Andy Calder)
= WriteNow 2.2
= Select "About WriteNow", then option-click on the About dialog.
=
Little men run out and change all the letters one-by-one.
= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
=
= And now, for something completely different!
= Masatsugu Nagata has reported a really nifty trick to me that I
= don't have the resources to confirm, but I'd be muchly appreciative
= of any hacker with time on his hands who'd like to pin this one down.
=
= The ingredients:
= One Macintosh SE/30
= System 7.0 or 7.0.1
= Kerry Clendinning's "Easy Keys 1.5" Control Panel
= QUED/M 2.09 (The text editor from Paragon; little brother of NISUS)
=
= Assign some key combinations in Easy Keys Control Panel.
= Launch QUED/M, and press the key combination.
= Then, an "address error" bomb alert comes up, but you can click on
= "Continue" to keep going -- go ahead and click "Continue".
=
= Everything is normal again until you quit QUED/M, at which time
= the screen blanks to all white except for the figure of a Mac and
= a "Mac SE/30 Engineering Hall of Fame" list.
= The only way out is to press the reset button.
=
= Perhaps the address error hit the address for the "Hall of Fame"
= accidentally. Hence my request: can anyone pinpoint what this
= address is to run the credits?
=
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