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Xref: icaen alt.folklore.computers:47386 bit.listserv.win3-l:23927 comp.os.ms-windows.apps:15851 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:13030 comp.os.msdos.misc:15621
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.win3-l,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
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Path: icaen!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!linus!linus.mitre.org!jcmorris
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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
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Subject: Ye Olde Secrete Screene Cheete Sheete (long; 2000+ lines) (part 1/2)
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Message-ID: <jcmorris.742508699@mwunix>
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Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
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Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org
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Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 20:24:59 GMT
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Lines: 1594
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(( Split posting; part 1 of 2 ))
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Copies to: alt.folklore.computers
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bit.listserv.win3-l
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comp.os.ms-windows.apps
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comp.os.ms-windows.misc
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comp.os.msdos.misc
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Additionally, a copy will be sent to the cica archives where
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it will appear as 'pub/pc/win3/misc/secret*.zip' where the '*'
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will increment with new versions of this file.)
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I don't monitor the Mac, Amiga, or many of the other groups which support
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some of the non-PC products mentioned in this list. Readers are welcome to
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repost this document to those newsgroups (or anywhere else); if there's
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enough interest I can add other groups to the distribution list.
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Recipients are encouraged to redistribute this file to anyone who requests
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a copy, including BBS and archive sites. I cannot offer it by anonymous
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ftp and my employer would prefer that I not be inundated with requests
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to mail out copies.
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Joe Morris / MITRE
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= begin included text =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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***** E A S T E R E G G H U N T R E S U L T S *****
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Collected from various sources; the names in each entry show where
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I got the info, which may or may not be where the egg was first
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discovered. As usual, should you be killed or captured ... oops,
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wrong tape. No warranties, express or implied; your milage may
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vary, and there may be weather tomorrow. Contributions of additional
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Easter Eggs gleefully accepted and will be posted on a totally random
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basis; please send them to jcmorris@mitre.org
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If the submitter prefers to remain anonymous, contributions will be merged
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without the associated name. (Translation: vendor staff submissions are
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solicited...)
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Entries may be edited for clarity, consistency, and whatever I feel like
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on any given morning.
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This listing may be redistributed without limitation. No copyright is
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claimed on its contents, but suitable credit for both the individual
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entries and the compilation would be appropriate.
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Last update: 7/8/93 (available at cica as 'secreta.zip')
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Recent additions:
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Windows applications:
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Microsoft Access V1.0 and 1.1
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Corel Draw! V4
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Ami Pro
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Excel 4.0
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Mainframe systems and high-end boxes:
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XDS Fortran
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Apollo AEGIS
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H-P 110 portable "Nomad":
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Supplied configuration files
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Macintosh:
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Various "About" boxes
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IIGS Finder
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Miscellaneous:
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Coleco ADAM
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AT&T UNIX-PC
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"Xevious" game
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"Smurfs" game
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"Dalton's Disk Disintegrator"
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CoCo
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Additionally, for posting in plaintext on USENET the file has been
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split into two pieces. The second part contains only the composite
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list of Macintosh Easter Eggs compiled by Bryan Kendig; users who have
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already seen Bryan's collection don't need to download it because it
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hasn't changed since it was first included in this list.
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The .ZIP file on ftp.cica.indiana.edu contains all the entries in a
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single archived file.
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Product: Windows 3.0
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Source: unknown
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Press and hold F3
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Type the four characters WIN3
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Release F3
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Hit the backspace key
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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)
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1. Hold down Cntl and Shift simultaneously (keep holding them down for all
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of the following steps).
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2. Select Program Manager's Help menu option, and select "About Program
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Manager".
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3. When the box pops up, double click inside one of the four panes in the
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Windows 3.1 logo.
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4. Click OK.
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5. Repeat steps 2-4 to see a flag waving.
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6. Repeat steps 2-4 again to see the credits. (Is that a picture
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of Bill Gates there? :-) )
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(Note: my tests indicate that if you try this a third time you'll
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get nothing; try it a fourth time and you're back at the waving
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flag. jcm)
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The display terminates immediately when the OK button is pressed (step 4).
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Some followup to the Windows 3.1 egg, from contributions by:
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Mark Scase (coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk)
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Jill Patterson (bytor@milton.u.washington.edu)
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JT Anderson (jta@locus.com)
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Andrew Turner (act@softserver.canberra.edu.au)
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You don't have to be in Program Manager to do this. It seems to
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work in any "About" box of an application provided with Windows
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3.1 (eg file manager, write, paintbrush, clock etc).
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The character appearing in the graphic with the name scroll changes each
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time you see it; there are four distinct figures:
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a bald man (Steve Ballmer)
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a man with a beard and dark hair (Brad Silverberg),
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a man with glasses and fair hair (Bill Gates), and
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a Teddy bear...apparently the logo of bugs@microsoft
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The Bear is a Microsoft euphemism for someone who comes along and bonks
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programmers for introducing bugs into test code(as in Smokey the Bear, who
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crushes your butts). The concept of the Bear is so much a part of debugging
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at Microsoft that certain, undcoumented functions used for testing Windows
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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
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Currents for the info
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Formula Goto the *last* cell: IV16384
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Scroll until this is the only cell visible, in the upper left corner of the
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screen.
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Set its row height and column width to 0
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Double click on the little button in the upper left corner.
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Product: Excel 4.0 for the PC
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Source: Phil Wherry (psw@maestro.mitre.org)
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Go to the tool bar and right click.
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Choose customize
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Now choose custom in the dialog
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Drag the solitaire icon off to the excel desktop somewhere
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close the dialog box
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Now, with the control and shift down click the solitaire icon
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Keep the keys down to see names...
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[A slightly different Easter Egg is reported in the following entry]
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Reported by: Will Leland (hole@netcom.com), citing the LA Times 11/22/92
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Submitted by: The Cybard= (dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu)
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Excel 4.0: Blue and pink logo moves across screen leaving bugs and debris.
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Archrival logo swoops down, ejects competitor, and says "No Problemo."
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How: Call up a blank worksheet with a Standard Tool Bar on top. Use the
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right hand button on the mouse and click. From the Customize option, select
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Custom, drag the Solitaire icon to an empty spot on the Tool Bar. Under
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Assign to Tool, click OK, click Close, then hold the Ctrl Alt Shift keys
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while clicking on the Solitaire icon.
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Product: Excel 3.0 for the Mac
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Source: Arthur Evans (ae@sei.cmu.edu)
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Under Excel 3.0: Open a new worksheet and select a cell. Using STYLE in
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the FORMAT menu, give it style EXCEL. Open the About... menu from the
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Apple menu click in the Excel symbol. Keep waiting -- there are two
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screens.
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Product: Word for Windows, v1.1
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Source: Todd Lutz (tlutz@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com)
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Here is a hidden feature of Word for Windows:
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1. Turn CAPS LOCK on.
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2. Choose Format, Define Styles, Options.
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3. In the Based On field, select Normal.
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4. You will get an error message, select OK.
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5. Select Cancel.
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6. Select Help, About.
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7. Make sure your mouse cursor is inside the help box, then press the
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following four keys all at the same time: OPUS
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You should get some fireworks with the authors names scrolling on the
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screen.
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Product: Word for Windows, v2.0
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Source: nancyb@ryko.enet.dec.com (nancy b.)
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To see some cute animation, a not-so-subtle jab at WordPerfect,
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and a list of those responsible for "wizardry", "quality",
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etc... on the Word for Windows 2.0 project:
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1) Start WfW 2.0.
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2) In the Tools menu, click on Macro.
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3) For the Macro Name, type spiff [stop the macro recorder -- jcm]
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4) Click on Edit.
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5) Delete the lines Sub MAIN and End Sub
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6) In the File menu, choose Close.
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7) You will be asked if you want to save the changes.
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Click on Yes.
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8) In the Help menu, click on About.
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9) Click on the Word icon in the upper left, and enjoy ;-).
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If you have high resolution drivers, you might not see that awful
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green WordPerfect monster or the little people jumping up and
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down in glee after they make it go away. If all you see is the
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fireworks with the credits rolling in the foreground, then this
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is the case. Change to a lower resolution (800x600 or 640x480)
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driver to see the first part also.
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Product: Microsoft Access
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Reported by: Aaron Bregel (and in a slightly shorter form by William Luitje,
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who credits "Computer Reseller News", 4 January 93, Shadowram
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column as his source.)
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[reported as applicable to both version 1.0 and 1.1]
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Taken from Access Advisor/Premiere issues 1993 p. 41 without
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permission By Michael R. Irwin
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1. Open any Access database (the sample NWIND database will do.)
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2. Create a new table named "cirrus". Be sure you type the
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name in all lowercase letters, as I have here.
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3. Give this new table one field of any type, with no primary key.
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4. Save this new "cirrus" table.
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5. Highlight "cirrus" in the table container.
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6. Select Help, About Microsoft Access...from the database menu.
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Access opens a dialog titled "About Microsoft Access" that
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presents information about your version. This dialog also
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displays the Access logo at the top left corner. (The logo
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is a key and a table icon with the name Microsoft above
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them.)
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7. Position the mouse pointer on the Access logo. Hold down the
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Ctrl and Shift keys, and simultaneously double-click the right
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mouse button.
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A special dialog box appears. The first surprise is the cartoon
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it displays. Then you will see several minutes of acknowledgments.
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You can speed up the acknowledgments by pressing the Esc key, but
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don't miss the second surprise. Let the Special Thanks To dialog
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run its course. Look closely at the last name on the list of
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people being thanked.
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One final hint. The cartoon might be interpreted as a pair of
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____."
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The answer of course if pair of ducks. (Paradox)
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[William Luitje reports that the cartoon is animated: two lightning bolts
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come down, annihilating the pair of ducks]
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Product: Other Windows applications on a PC
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Application: PageMaker 4 for Windows
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Source: Peter Reece (REECE@camins.Camosun.BC.CA)
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There is an egg in Pagemaker 4 as follows:
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1. Depress and continue to hold shift-control
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2. Open 'Help', 'About PM4'
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A list of PageMaker authors and contributors will appear
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There is also an Egg in Aldus's Table Editor as follows:
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1. Depress and continue to hold shift-control
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2. Open 'Help", 'About TableEdit"
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A list of TableEditor authors and contributors will appear
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Application: Solitaire game distributed with Windows
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Source: Joe Robison (joero@microsoft.com)
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From: pfeil@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Hank Pfeil-Alumnus)
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>Here's a neat trick you can play on your computer: Start "Solitaire"
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>... Now, if the card game only had a cheat mode....
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There is. If you're playing "Draw Three" you can hold down
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Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click on the deck to draw single cards
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(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_
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With NDW 2.0 in the foreground, hold down the N, D, and W keys, then click
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HELP -> ABOUT, then double-click on the Symantec icon in the upper left
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corner. The response is a group of photos of the NDW development team,
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plus a scrolling title bar with quotes from Shakespeare.
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In a followup, Brian Downing (bdowning@fordmulc.bitnet) says:
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Just choose HELP|ABOUT and then double click on the icon to make
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symantec disappear, then press the N,D,&W keys.
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In another followup, Mark Scase (mos11@cus.cam.ac.uk) adds:
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Whilst in the desktop, click on help about. Press N, D and W at the
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same time and double click on the icon in the about box.
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A window pops up containing 15 black and white pictures of people with
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the status bar entitles NDW Development Team. This title scrolls to
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the left and is replaced with the following (it takes a time for it all
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to scroll past):
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VIPER TEAM: Yet another great truth I record in my verse, that some
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vipers are venomous, some the reverse (Hilaire Belloc)
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ENRIQUE & PETER: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
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(Emerson)
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MARK: An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose
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time has come (Victor Hugo)
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MICHAEL: You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one (John Lennon)
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DOUG: As you already knew, this is the wave of the future! (NDW)
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MANSHAN: Very ingenious/important product enhancement realized! (Anonymous)
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SUE: I want you all to stonewall it (Richard Nixon)
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RENEE: What you achieve depends on what you settle for (Anonymous)
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BILL: Fame, fame, fatal fame, it can play hideous tricks on the brain, but
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still I'd rather be famous than righteous or holy any day, any day, any
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day (Morrissey)
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Congratulations Bruce & Vickie!!!! (The Gang)
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Application: Procomm Plus for Windows
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Source: Joseph Malloy (jmalloy@ITSMAIL1.HAMILTON.EDU)
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1) From the Window menu, select Monitor
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2) Keep the focus on the monitor (i.e., make sure monitor is active, not
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the Procomm Plus terminal window)
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3) type GO DATASTORM! (case doesn't appear to matter, but the
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exclamation mark is necessary; you'll probably hear beeps as the system
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tells you this is an error)
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4) Choose Help/About/Credits: instead of the usual list of names, you
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should see a nice color picture of, I assume, the primary developers.
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Application: AMI Pro
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Source: AVINOAM SHMUELI (s8276758@phobos.ucc.umass.edu), quoting from
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8/92 issue of _PC_ Magazine
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Go to the About box under the Help menu and hold down the Shift, Ctrl, and
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Alt keys, Press F7, then type the letters S,P,A,M followed by the last number
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in the Available Memory display and the third from the last number in
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that display. [in my case, 9202k, it was "2" and "2".] Then release the
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Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys.
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Tiny photo images of the Ami Pro developers appear.
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[followup information:]
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Reported by: Paul Gronke (Paul.Gronke@bbs.oit.unc.edu)
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Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
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[After calling up the Ami Pro gang screen]
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Hey, if you then click on each face, they disappera. Except for one
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(appears to be randomly selected) which spins around and transforms into
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"D King" (i think) with a kind of alien looking forehead. Anyone know who
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it is?
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~From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
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>Anyone know who it is?
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It's elvis! Da' King! See, you can't kill him...
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Application: Minesweeper game
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Source: Jay Rosenbaum (jdr@pub2.bu.edu)
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Just start Minesweeper normally. When it has loaded, type
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"xyzzy <ENTER> <SHIFT-ENTER>". The upper left hand pixel on your
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screen will light up whenever your mouse is over a safe square.
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Application: Corel Draw! V3.0
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Source: jdmathew (faculty@mtu.edu)
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Hold down CTRL-SHIFT and select "help" and then "about", while still
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holding down CTRL-SHIFT, double click on the balloon on the left side of the
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help box. The box expands, and the text dissapears, and the balloon moves
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to the bottom of the box. Hold down the right mouse button to light the
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burner on the balloon. If you hold the mouse button down, you'll see the
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balloon move up, pulling a text banner listing authors and beta testers.
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[My tests show that the *left* button lights the burner. Also, if you
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release the burner button (whichever one it is) the balloon will slow
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its ascent and begin to sink...just like a real balloon. jcm]
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Application: Corel Draw! V4.0
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Reported by: goldsborough@news.brandonu.ca
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CorelDraw version 4 has an
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"easter egg" in it similar to the one in version 3. See it
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by opening the "About" dialog box (Help - About CorelDraw),
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and double click on the balloon icon in the upper left
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corner. The dialog grows larger, showing a Corel balloon
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with a waving Canadian flag (!). As before, press and hold
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the left mouse button to activate the burner on the balloon,
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causing it to rise, pulling up a credits screen. The nifty
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part comes when you click the right mouse button. A
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parachuting Elvis drops from the top of the dialog. Someone
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at Corel has evidently seen the movie, Honeymoon in Vegas.
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Product: OS/2
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Source: Janos Haide (jhaide.novell@sjfsmtp.novell.com),
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also Panagiotis Skagos (skagos@hercules.cs.uregina.ca)
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Make the desktop active (i.e., click on the desktop).
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Press alt-shift-ctrl-o simultaneously. You get a beach scene with
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a pink flamingo (and other nifty things) plus a list of the program
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authors.
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Press any other key returns you to your regularly scheduled Workplace Shell.
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A followup posting from Mike Levis (mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu) says:
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According to the FAQL, you also need to have the optional bitmaps
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installed as well. I think selecting the optional bitmaps unpacks
|
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two files called "AAAAA.EXE" and "AAAAA.MET" to the \OS2\BITMAP dir.
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|
|
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Source: Cjin Lee (cjin@snake3.cs.wisc.edu, cjin%bc@cs.wisc.edu)
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|
|
|
Click on the desktop with right mouse button. Select
|
|
Setting->Lockup. Go to Page 2/3 for Lockup settings. Select (none)
|
|
for the bmp to display for lockup. Now get out of the settings mode
|
|
and try lockup.
|
|
|
|
When "none" means something......
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---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: Macintosh hardware and OS
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Product: Apple IIgs finder
|
|
Reported by: Joel Sumner (q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
[Apple IIgs finder] If you hold down (I think) Shift-Option and select
|
|
the Apple menu and the 'About the Finder' option, it will turn the
|
|
ENTIRE SCREEN upside down and stay that way until you click the mouse.
|
|
(Interestingly enough, the mouse cursor inverts and moves in
|
|
the inverse direction).
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|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Product: ABOUT boxes in various Macintosh programs
|
|
Reported by: Matthias Urlichs (urlichs@smurf.sub.org)
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
The comment about XXXXXes, below, doesn't apply because the parts in question
|
|
have been diligently restored from beta copies. For best effects, switch to
|
|
soft scroll now and watch one line at a time scroll up slowly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The AboutBox - a Ringewald/Goldman production
|
|
Introducing The Juggler...
|
|
the 'True' Multitasking Extravaganza!!!
|
|
|
|
Please note: some extremely funny things have been
|
|
replaced by xxxxxxx at the insistence of Apple's Legal
|
|
Department. The producers hope this does not detract
|
|
from your enjoyment of the About Box.
|
|
|
|
Edited for television.
|
|
|
|
Produced by.........Charlie 'Chuckles' Bedard
|
|
Directed by.........Erich Ringewald
|
|
Written by..........Erich Ringewald and Phil Goldman
|
|
Not written by......Andy Hertzfeld or Sir Francis Bacon
|
|
Continuity..........Charlie Oppenheimer
|
|
Screenplay by.......Harry Greenwald
|
|
Context Switches...._BlockMove()
|
|
|
|
Yogurt by...........Frank Leahy
|
|
Breath by...........Altoid's of England
|
|
Fashion consultant and
|
|
Helicopter stunts...Charles Simonyi
|
|
Fashion insultant...Charlie 'Giorgio' Bedard
|
|
Encouragement by....Dr. Jerome 'at most one task!' Coonen
|
|
Technical Advisor...David 'No Command Keys!' Goldsmith
|
|
Interruptions.......George 'Geocomm' Norman
|
|
|
|
Mooses supplied by..The Berkowitzes
|
|
Crowd control.......Sheila 'Airhorn' Brady
|
|
Set Design by.......Annette Wagner
|
|
Best Boy............Jeff Hokit
|
|
Head finger pointer.Jim "TMON works fine for me" Friedlander
|
|
General Piracy......Terrie Sima
|
|
Stunts by...........Phil 'Scrappy' Goldman
|
|
Mascot..............Spot, the wonder half-pinata
|
|
Obscure bugs........Dr. Dan 'Einstein' Allen
|
|
Uncoordination......Michael 'Nesmith' Holm
|
|
Lighting by.........Judy York
|
|
Trap Monitor........Larry 'Time/Space Performance' Kenyon
|
|
Animal Trainer......Linda Curry
|
|
|
|
Buckets o' Blood....Maura 'Yes Boxer Shorts' McNamara
|
|
Scott Bongiorno by..Mr. and Mrs. Bongiorno
|
|
Spam and Buns by....Carol 'Yes Boxer Shorts' Crews
|
|
Deviance by.........Andrew Yarborough
|
|
DayGlo..............Julia 'No Boxer Shorts' Menapace
|
|
Underwear by........Cliff 'No Boxer Shorts' Deighan
|
|
Hair by.............Eli Cochran and Mary Jo Greene
|
|
Gaffer..............Debbie Brackeen
|
|
Artisto testing.....Paul Foraker
|
|
DGA Trainee.........Leona Guthrie
|
|
Harmonic Analysis...John Perry
|
|
Hawaiian vacations..Greg Henderson
|
|
Neck Rubs...........Ginny Reed
|
|
Spelling advizer....Mary Cadloni
|
|
Fitness consultant..Sandy 'No Boxer Shorts' Tompkins
|
|
Guerilla tactics....Steve 'No Boxer Shorts' Mayzels
|
|
3rd degree burns....Mike Ansnes
|
|
Steamy eruptions....Heinrich 'Old Faithful' Koenig
|
|
|
|
Introducing the
|
|
Princes of Background...Patrick Ross
|
|
Jay Patel
|
|
Bayles Holt
|
|
Scott Douglass
|
|
Gifford S. Calenda
|
|
Tom Shea
|
|
George Jarrett
|
|
Carl Brown
|
|
|
|
Public Relations.....The Lovely Carol Cochrane
|
|
Party planning.......Dan 'Ortega' Torres
|
|
Incompatibilites.....Our Developers
|
|
Special Effects......Microsoft
|
|
English translation..Scottie Zimmerman
|
|
Italian translation..Enrico Hardsalami
|
|
Hairstyles...........Marci & Charlton
|
|
Mr. Bedard's suits...K-Mart
|
|
Mr. Goldman's suits by accident
|
|
Philosophies by......Zippy the Pinhead
|
|
Low memory by........Brian "it doesn't exist and you
|
|
couldn't have it even if it did" McGhie
|
|
Music by.............John 'Mr. Sound' Worthington
|
|
Music also by........Irwin Griswold
|
|
|
|
Satanic incantations...Jim "The" Lord
|
|
Final touches..........Ed (Eee-Dee) Heyl
|
|
Lowest % Body Fat......Peter Potrebic
|
|
Salinas Unit...........Lynnea Johnson
|
|
Wanted his name here...Steve Horowitz
|
|
Vandalism..............Judy Marchant
|
|
|
|
Automobiles (sort of) by BMW
|
|
Otter Pops by John Meier.
|
|
Dental work by Mo Budak, D.D.S.
|
|
Bowling Lessons by Ed 'Kingpin' Birss.
|
|
|
|
All guests of MultiFinder stayed in Motel Schnell...
|
|
"Never more than an Appletalk bridge away..."
|
|
|
|
Promotional consideration (free food) provided by:
|
|
Kirk's Steakburgers
|
|
Vivi's Falafels
|
|
The Steve Capps' Memorial No-Name Burrito Joint
|
|
Chili's
|
|
The Steak and Seafood Sizzler, where the salad bar
|
|
has potato skins!!!!
|
|
|
|
Written and debugged on location in sunny Cupertino, Ca.
|
|
|
|
Thanks to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's department for
|
|
not prematurely arresting the authors of this programme.
|
|
|
|
Thanks to Satan for C Language brace style.
|
|
|
|
Thanks to Vice Rear Admiral Edward Colby, III, (ret.) for
|
|
keyboards and other flotation devices.
|
|
|
|
Extra special thanks to that all around great guy,
|
|
Fred Burst: the only man whose name is a complete sentence.
|
|
|
|
Executive producer...........Jean-Louis Gassee
|
|
Copyright (c) MCMLXXXVII.....Apple Computer, Inc.
|
|
Apple Computer by............John Sculley
|
|
|
|
Filmed in Juggler-vision(TM) and Twitch-R-Scope(TM)
|
|
|
|
This programme is rated R; application discretion advised.
|
|
|
|
Any resemblance to other multitasking systems, living,
|
|
dead, or both, is purely coincidental and unintentional.
|
|
|
|
Next summer, the adventure continues...Juggler/2!!!!!
|
|
"Just when you thought it was safe to launch again..."
|
|
|
|
|
|
[Followup from Jim Shaffer (uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms): ]
|
|
|
|
I've seen several programs [on the Macintosh] where an "About..." box would
|
|
have a little icon of the designer's head somewhere in it. Clicking on
|
|
this would yield the message "Please don't click on my head!"
|
|
|
|
Also I remember a program where holding some weird key combination while
|
|
selecting the "About..." menu would bring up the normal About... box with a
|
|
bizarre picture of a half-woman, half-zebra entity filling what was
|
|
normally an empty section. I think this was either MacPaint or MacDraw
|
|
shortly after it was taken over by Claris, and I also remember that it
|
|
disappeared from the next release.
|
|
|
|
[More followup from Michael Scott Forbes (forbes@sp11.csrd.uiuc.edu): ]
|
|
|
|
[The "Don't click on my head" message is in] the shareware communications
|
|
program Red Ryder, by Scott Watson. (Actually it said "Please don't click
|
|
on my head. Thank you." *before* you clicked on his head, and the icon
|
|
would stick out its tongue and say "ouch!" when you did.)
|
|
|
|
Early releases of MacPaint 2.0 would display [the half-woman half-zebra
|
|
entity] graphic if shift and tab (I think) were held down when
|
|
selecting the About... box.
|
|
|
|
In the Infocom game "Enchanter" by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling, the magic
|
|
spell for "summon a person" could be used to summon... Marc Blank and
|
|
Dave Lebling. They would appear, look confused, argue with each other
|
|
about bugs in the code, and vanish. (This only works once; apparently
|
|
they return to "real life" and fix the bug... :-)
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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)
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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)
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: WORD 4 for the Mac
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: Commodore PET
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Jan Schiefer (jan@nasobem.stgt.sub.org)
|
|
|
|
On the Commodore PET 2001, a "POKE 6502,n" where 0 <= n <= 255 resulted in
|
|
the machine printing the string MICROSOFT! on the screen n times.
|
|
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: Commodore 128
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: Commodore Business Machines 1581 Disk Drive
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Eric Pass (epass@nyx.cs.du.edu)
|
|
|
|
error = $ff3f
|
|
org $3000
|
|
lda #$79
|
|
jmp error
|
|
|
|
which gives you an author's credit. Substitute #$7a for #$79 to get a
|
|
dedication to one of the authors' wives.
|
|
|
|
The two messages are listed in the 1581 dos reference
|
|
guide as:
|
|
|
|
$79: Software by David Siracusa. Hardware by Greg Berlin
|
|
$7a: Dedicated to my wife Lisa
|
|
|
|
Here is a BASIC program written by Russell Prater to illustrate the
|
|
messages.
|
|
|
|
10 open15,9,15:n$="m-w":m$=n$
|
|
20 fori=1to8:reada:n$=n$+chr$(a):next
|
|
30 fori=1to8:reada:m$=m$+chr$(a):next
|
|
40 print#15,n$:print#15,"m-e"chr$(0)chr$(3)
|
|
50 fori=0to1:get#15,a$:i=st:printa$;:next
|
|
60 print#15,m$:print#15,"m-e"chr$(0)chr$(3)
|
|
70 fori=0to1:get#15,a$:i=st:printa$;:next
|
|
80 data 0,3,5,169,121,76,63,255
|
|
90 data 0,3,5,169,122,76,63,255
|
|
|
|
Information derived from messages on the C_B_M Echo
|
|
by Russell Prater and David Schmoll
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: Amiga hardware and software
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu)
|
|
|
|
On the Amiga (NB), press 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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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!"
|
|
|
|
[Following a query from Ye Editor of this FAQ list, the posting continues:]
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu)
|
|
(Forwarding 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!).
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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."
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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. :->
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: rivero@vxd.mdcbbs.com
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|
|
|
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. :)
|
|
>
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|
|
|
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)
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: Tandy ColorComputer III
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Product: Tandy CoCo
|
|
Reported by: SJS132@psuvm.psu.edu
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
[Tandy Color Computer III]
|
|
If you hold down the Control and Alternate Screens,
|
|
it brings up a picture of the designers (dubbed the 3 Mug-a-tears)...
|
|
It was burnt into ROM, and took up MUCH needed space,
|
|
that could have been loaded with good code!
|
|
|
|
If you go to the 40/80 Column mode, and do a CLS X
|
|
(With X being higher than 100 I think...) It prints the names of the
|
|
designers and all, after clearing the screen... another one that is sorta
|
|
simular to that, is to do a Control-A in OS9 Level II... (Software os system)
|
|
it gives you some names....
|
|
|
|
[Followup by carl@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu]
|
|
|
|
Not really... It only takes up aboutt 8k of space, and it wasn't
|
|
being used for anything. Doubtful that it would have been ever used either,
|
|
knowing Tandy.
|
|
|
|
[CLS X]
|
|
No. It prints "Microware Systems Corp." who are the people who designed the
|
|
hardware for the CoCo. It happens if you specify any value higher than 15. If
|
|
you enter any value higher than 9 for the CLS command in the 32 column window,
|
|
you'll see the word MICROSOFT. Of course, they are the ones who did the BASIC
|
|
ROMS.
|
|
|
|
[Ctrl-A in OS9 Level II]
|
|
Control-A is the last command recall function. I think that under some circum-
|
|
stances, hitting control-A after booting OS-9 Level II but before entering
|
|
any commands, it displays a programmers name...
|
|
|
|
OS-9 Level II is actually a pretty good Unix-like OS. I believe its IBM
|
|
brother is OS9000 or OS9K.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: OS9 level I for the Tandy ColorComputer I, II, and III
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Richard Hempsey (rich%knoware@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca)
|
|
|
|
Hitting CTRL-A, the "repeat previous command line" key at the
|
|
command line _immediately_ after boot displays
|
|
|
|
by K.Kaplan, L.Crane, R.Doggett
|
|
|
|
This also works for OS9 Level II for the Color Computer 3, at boot or
|
|
after the creation of any new immortal shell.
|
|
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: Acorn Archimedes
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
~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
|
|
|
|
Additional info from Andrew Brooks <arb@computing.lancaster.ac.uk>
|
|
|
|
The above two SYS calls print a list of the names of the developers.
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Simon Burrows (smb@cs.nott.ac.uk),
|
|
forwarded by Andrew Brooks (arb@computing.lancaster.ac.edu)
|
|
|
|
Following much investigation, disassembly etc, here is a summary of the
|
|
RISC OS 3 Credits which work on my machines:
|
|
|
|
RISC OS 3.00
|
|
============
|
|
|
|
When the RISC OS 3.00 title screen is displayed, quickly type the letters
|
|
'r-m-t-m-d', and if you get the timing right, photographs of the RISC OS 3
|
|
Development team will be displayed on screen.
|
|
|
|
Go to the RISC OS 3.00 Info Window (from the switcher icon). Click on the
|
|
letters 'r-m-t-m-d' from the words 'Acorn Computers Ltd' using the MENU
|
|
button, and a long list of credits will be flashed up.
|
|
|
|
|
|
RISC OS 3.10
|
|
============
|
|
|
|
The photograph facility appears to have been removed.
|
|
|
|
To access the info window credits, click on the letters 't-e-a-m' from
|
|
'Acorn Computers Ltd' using the MENU button, and a (different) long list
|
|
of credits will be displayed. (If you click in the wrong places, the
|
|
machine *may* crash).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Source: Nicko van Someren (nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk)
|
|
(also forwarded by Andrew Brooks)
|
|
|
|
~Subject: RISC OS 3.10 Secret message
|
|
|
|
The other day I was looking through the template files stored in ResourceFS
|
|
in the RISC OS 3.10 ROM. In the template file for the switcher there is
|
|
a dialogue box called power. It appears to contain a secret message left
|
|
by the RISC OS team. Take a look :-)
|
|
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: NeXT systems and software
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: schuetz@ectds.com, also Timothy Buck (timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu)
|
|
|
|
In Improv (version 1.0) for NeXTstep from Lotus, go to the Info Panel,
|
|
and in the space to the left of the Improv title, hold down shift,
|
|
alternate, and command, and click the mouse. A "little man" with big
|
|
bug-eyes shows up....
|
|
|
|
To clear it, you quit Improv.
|
|
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
Product: None Of The Above (TM)
|
|
---------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Product: FORTRAN compiler on XDS (previously SDS) Sigma computers
|
|
Reported by: JT Anderson (jta@prodnet.la.locus.com)
|
|
|
|
With the FORTRAN compiler under the CP-V operating system on Xerox
|
|
Sigma computers, the program:
|
|
|
|
10 assign 10 to jail
|
|
goto jail
|
|
|
|
Would elicit the diagnostic:
|
|
|
|
Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
|
|
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Product: AT&T UNIX-PC
|
|
Reported by: Donald Nichols (dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com)
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
In the AT&T UNIX-PC (aka 7300/3B1), the command ".!." will cause a
|
|
three-column window to scroll the authors' names. (At least in
|
|
release 3.51)
|
|
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Product: Coleco ADAM
|
|
Reported by: Richard F. Drushel (rfd@po.CWRU.edu)
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
I can provide a few examples of "hidden goodies" from
|
|
the Coleco ADAM world...
|
|
|
|
In the ADAM implementation of Digital Research's CP/M
|
|
2.2, there is a key sequence which, if typed while the system is
|
|
booting, displays a graphic of a woman entitled "Pam's Face."
|
|
|
|
In the unfinished (at the time of Coleco's demise) but
|
|
now public domain version of the "Jeopardy!" game, there is a
|
|
keyboard sequence which results in all the categories being
|
|
about the programmers--favorite foods, hobbies, etc.
|
|
|
|
In the ADAMcalc spreadsheet program, there is a key
|
|
sequence which, if followed by the word "SURFNAZI", displays a
|
|
screen listing the programmers' names.
|
|
|
|
In the SmartFiler database program, there is a hidden
|
|
database which contains programmers' favorite recipes, perhaps
|
|
left over from the earlier Recipe Filer program. I have not
|
|
discovered a way to access this from the actual program, but
|
|
the data is stored on the digital data pack if you look at the
|
|
absolute blocks. Viewed this way, there is also the remnants
|
|
of whatever real-time debugger the programmers were using--
|
|
there is a screen showing all the Z80 register contents and
|
|
the flags. There is also a block devoted to the programmers'
|
|
names and how the work was allocated among them.
|
|
|
|
In Coleco's unreleased Graphics Processor cartridge
|
|
(used to create, capture and/or edit high-resolution graphics
|
|
screens), there is a configuration menu for a prototyped but
|
|
never released serial/parallel interface board (setting
|
|
baud rates, parity, stop, flow control). Neatest of all is
|
|
the SmartKey which is labelled VAX...
|
|
|
|
The ADAM has a ROM word processor called SmartWriter.
|
|
While disassembling the code for this program, I discovered a
|
|
remarkable subroutine called right after the powerup routines
|
|
which bank-switch in this ROM and jump to the first byte of
|
|
initialization code. Coleco made a 300-baud internal modem
|
|
for the ADAM (ADAMlink); every time you turn on the computer
|
|
the modem is initialized, and then the modem port is read:
|
|
if a valid ROM signature AAh 55h is received, then it assumes
|
|
that a cartridge game program is being fed in through the
|
|
modem! The next 2 bytes are the load address, and the next 2
|
|
after that the length of the code; it is loaded in, the game
|
|
operating system ROM switched in, and it jumps to the start
|
|
of the game! Someone suggested that perhaps Coleco was
|
|
planning a company BBS whereby someone calling in with the
|
|
ADAMlink modem could try out game demos by pulling the reset
|
|
on the computer at the appropriate moment while on-line!
|
|
|
|
These may qualify more as programmer detritus than
|
|
actual hidden features...the SmartBASIC 1.0 interpreter has
|
|
an unused message string "Hi Cathy"; the SmartBASIC 2.0
|
|
interpreter has it too, but also fills up unused space in
|
|
the first page of RAM with "Hi Jan" over and over. (It has
|
|
been suggested that the persistently buggy quality of Coleco
|
|
software was due to the programmers being more interested in
|
|
Jan and Cathy than in tasks at hand...) The ADAMlink terminal
|
|
program (used with the ADAMlink modem) has whole sets of
|
|
unimplemented menus to select smart terminal emulations like
|
|
VT52 and VT100, a dialing directory with the numbers for Dow
|
|
Jones and The Source, and a 1K buffer initialized with
|
|
nonsensical quotes from some English grammar book.
|
|
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Product: Apollo AEGIS
|
|
Reported by: Rick Wagoner (wag@georwell.EBay.Sun.COM)
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
Apollo's AEGIS operating system was developed by several folks
|
|
who also did a lot of the PRIMOS development for Prime. The
|
|
single user environment of AEGIS (circa 1986) was called the "Phase
|
|
Two Boot Shell" and was similar in a lot of respects to
|
|
single user UNIX. But I digress. The "easter egg" was in the
|
|
form of a "delete line" command. In Promos this was the "?".
|
|
If you typed the ? at teh command line on the Apollo you got:
|
|
|
|
"You must be from Prime!" PLease use the cntrl-x to delete
|
|
lines.
|
|
|
|
Also from Apollo: The error code 220009 (tape drive) decoded as:
|
|
"Tape drive will not fit through 25 inch hatch."
|
|
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Product: "Xevious" game
|
|
Reported by: Dan Day (dcd@se.houston.geoquest.slb.com)
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
In the old "Xevious" video game, if you moved your ship to the
|
|
far right hand side of the screen and began firing madly as soon
|
|
as the game started, it would pause and display the names of the
|
|
programmers.
|
|
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Product: "The Smurfs" game
|
|
Reported by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
Activision (I believe) "The Smurfs" video game.
|
|
|
|
The object of the round is to reach Smurfette, who awaits you at the
|
|
top of the screen. Pass all the obstacles but don't make the final
|
|
jump to Smurfette's platform. Just wait there. Eventually, Smurfette
|
|
will throw off her clothes in an attempt to entice you onward.
|
|
|
|
[Alas, the only corroborating documentation I have is in New Jersey...]
|
|
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Product: Apple II game "Dalton's Disk Disintegrator"
|
|
Reported by: Jef DePolo (depolo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)
|
|
Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymondc@microsoft.com)
|
|
|
|
There was an Apple II program called "Dalton's Disk Disintegrator",
|
|
a favorite among hackers and pirates at the time. At its title screen,
|
|
if you typed D-A-L-T-O-N, it would play a song.
|
|
|
|
----------------
|
|
|
|
Source: "Peter the Bugman" (maxis@aol.com)
|
|
|
|
Various Maxis simulation games:
|
|
|
|
For SimCity: On any platform, hold down the shift key and type in "fund".
|
|
This gives you an instant 10,000$, but if you do it too often, you will get
|
|
earthquakes, regardless of how the disaster settings are set.
|
|
|
|
=-=-=-=
|
|
|
|
For SimEarth: On any platfiorm, hold down the shift key and type in joke,
|
|
then open the Gaia window.
|
|
|
|
=-=-=-=
|
|
|
|
For SimAnt: type in any of the following:
|
|
oops
|
|
rand
|
|
erad
|
|
FUND
|
|
joke
|
|
HOLE
|
|
hole
|
|
jeff
|
|
will
|
|
These all do various things that are easily recognizable.
|
|
|
|
=-=-=-=
|
|
|
|
For A-Train: hold down the control and alt keys, then type in "bellybutton".
|
|
|
|
Once the game is ended, watch very carefully. The ending screen shot is
|
|
not the same. (Our programmers have a bizzarre sense of humour.)
|
|
That is a picture of their, well, er ...uh.... bellybuttons.
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Steven R. Staton (sstaton@micrografx.com)
|
|
|
|
MVP rasterizer cards from Matrix Instruments/AFGA/Miles:
|
|
|
|
On the {Matrix Instruments|AGFA Matrix|Miles Division Matrix} MVP and
|
|
MVP*Star rasterizer boards for the IBM-pc (used to drive the QCR, PCR,
|
|
Forte, and other film recorders) there is a cookie in the foreground mode
|
|
of the MVP software. Enter foreground mode and press ALT-<2><5><5> (send
|
|
the ASCII character 255 via the keypad). The cookie (which is different
|
|
in MVP 3.5, 4.0, 4.1[grrr...] and 4.2) appears in the STATUS box where
|
|
normally there is hexadecimal numbers.
|
|
|
|
I don't remember the exact wording, but under MVP 3.5 it says
|
|
something like "despite rancid source code, inept management, and
|
|
poor tools, we proudly present MVP 3.5 with EGA and 24-bit overlays--
|
|
D Miller S Staton."
|
|
|
|
[The text is different in later releases of the program.]
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Dean Inada (dmi@peregrine.com)
|
|
|
|
Mattel Intellevision games:
|
|
|
|
Transcribed verbatim off an old photocopy,
|
|
we called them "Copyright Kludges" back then.
|
|
The date style marks this compilation as the work of
|
|
Chris Hawley
|
|
[Notation: hold down indicated keys during powerup.]
|
|
|
|
Kluge file for Games- Updated 8107.13
|
|
|
|
ROULETTE: left = 13 right = 123
|
|
SKIING: left = 57 right = 57
|
|
WORD FUN: press 43210 during word rockets mode
|
|
ARMOR BATTLE: left = 3 right = 9
|
|
HORSE RACING: left = 69 right = 69
|
|
BOXING: left = lower two action keys and wheel direction 7
|
|
SPACE ARMADA: left = 46 OR clear-enter
|
|
right = lower two action keys
|
|
AUTO RACE: pres 169 on any keypad to get real steering
|
|
STAR STRIKE: left = 19 OR 37
|
|
FRENCH CASSETTE: left = 19 right = 80
|
|
during introduction (menu #0); then exit to
|
|
monitor (menu #6)
|
|
DEMO CASSETTE: type "dei" (lower case) during space battle
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: John Hawkinson (jhawk@panix.com)
|
|
|
|
On a RSTS/E system, type:
|
|
|
|
$ HELP SPIKE
|
|
$ HELP ADVANCED SPIKE
|
|
|
|
Of course, these don't show up in the HELP topics listing...
|
|
|
|
They give info on Spike, the RSTS/E mascot (a bulldog, if
|
|
I'm not mistaken).
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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"
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
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?
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Barry Ferris (ferris@netcom.COM)
|
|
|
|
of course, this wasn't the only TECO egg...type in:
|
|
|
|
$ make war
|
|
to get
|
|
not love?
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Source: Earle Ake (ake@dayton.saic.com)
|
|
|
|
VMS Easter Eggs:
|
|
|
|
$ anal/system
|
|
|
|
VAX/VMS System analyzer
|
|
|
|
SDA> show cluster/scs
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VAXcluster data structures
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--------------------------
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--- SCS Listening Process Directory ---
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Entry Address Connection ID Process Name Information
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------------- ------------- ------------ -----------
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80308800 071D0000 SCS$DIRECTORY What city, plez?
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803087A0 071D0001 MSCP$TAPE NOT PRESENT HERE
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80308740 071D0002 MSCP$DISK NOT PRESENT HERE
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----------------------------
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Source: cac%sierra.com@mwunix.mitre.org
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The following exists on every VMS I have ever seen:
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% mcr sysgen
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SYSGEN> SHOW TIMEPROMPTWAIT
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Parameter Name Current Default Min. Max. Unit Dyna
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-------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- ----
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TIMEPROMPTWAIT 65535 -1 0 -1 uFortnight
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Also, I no longer have access to a VMS DBMS, but I recall that typing
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HELP WOMBAT inside the DBMS would give about three pages of interesting
|
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facts about Wombats, and that PLOT WOMBAT would draw a wombat on your
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terminal.
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-------------------------------
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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---------------------------------------------------
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Product: Hewlett-Packard products
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---------------------------------------------------
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Product: H-P 110 portable "Nomad"
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Reported by: Ed Schwalenberg (ed@odi.com)
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On the HP110 Portable "Nomad" computer, the developer's names are after the ^Z
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end-of-file character in either CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT, I forget which.
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=-=-=-=
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Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us)
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In a prior article Norman Soley writes:
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>In a prior article Steve VanDevender writes...
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>>The weirdest thing I found in my HP 150 is that the phrase "My
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>>mind is going..." is burned in one of the ROMs. I have no idea
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>>why it's there or if it would ever appear on the screen. My pet
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>>theory is that it's a diagnostic that appears if some of the ROMs
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>>are missing (a la the HAL dismantling scene in 2001).
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>More likely someone noticed there were a few unused bytes at the end of the
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>ROM and slid that in as a joke. There is the well know story of the "resist
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>the draft" message that's stored in some user inaccesable (usually) part of
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>someone's LOGO and one or more of the VAX chips has "VAX, for those who care
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>enough to steal the best" in Russian on an unused part of the mask....
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>In all cases the companies involved claimed no knowledge of these when
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>discovered.
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---------------------------------------------------
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Source: Mik Butler (mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com)
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>If I remember correctly there was an easter egg in the 150 that would
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>cause it to respond to XYZZY in the right circumstances.
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>The 'My mind is going' may well have been the response.
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>
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>Rodney Brown, Co-Cam Computer Group, ACSNet: rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
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To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind
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is going..." message, send or type the sequence <esc>&a?
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---------------------------------------------------
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Source: Steve VanDevender (stevev@grayback.uoregon.edu)
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In article <44880008@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Mik
|
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Butler) writes:
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>
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> To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind
|
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> is going..." message, send or type the sequence <esc>&a?
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Thank you thank you thank you. I discovered the "My mind is
|
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going..." message when I was in larval stage not long after I got
|
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my 150 and wrote a memory scanner. Only now, almost eight years
|
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later, do I know how to get the message. It indeed works on my
|
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HP 150 with Rev B roms.
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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
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Subject: Ye Olde Secrete Screene Cheete Sheete (long; 2000+ lines) (part 2/2)
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Message-ID: <jcmorris.742508968@mwunix>
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Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
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============================================================
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The following is a massive summary of Macintosh Easter Eggs compiled
|
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by Bryan Kendig of Princeton, and forwarded to me by Kees Huyser.
|
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Please send any comments or updates to this FAQ list directly to
|
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Bryan at bskendig@phpenix.Princeton.edu.
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----------------------------------------------------------------
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The Macintosh Secret Trick List
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compiled by Brian Kendig (bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
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Fifth revision.
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|
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Please report corrections to me, no matter how insignificant!
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You may (of course!) distribute information about these tricks freely,
|
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but please keep my name on this list if you pass it around whole.
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|
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
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= Hold down Shift, Option, and Command as you choose "About ResEdit."
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=
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You get the chance to enter "pig mode" (oink oink oink).
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When you put ResEdit into pig mode, resources will be compacted and
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purged each time ResEdit goes through its event loop (several times a
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second). (However, since this makes ResEdit slower, it's not of much
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use outside Apple.)
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(Contributed by Ian Neath.
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(Info about "pig mode" from Chris Webster and Russell Street.)
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Mr. Street adds that if you turn on pig mode while running ResEdit
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from a floppy disk the disk will "oink" a few times each second (most
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easily heard on an old Plus in a quiet room), but when I tried this
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my machine crashed. ;)
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= Simple Player (for QuickTime) 1.0
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= Hold down Option as you select "About Simple Player..."
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=
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The two movie frames now have greyscaled cats in them.
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(Contributed by Scott Ryder)
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= SoundEdit
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= Choose "About SoundEdit".
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=
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A burning fuse bomb "system error" blows up.
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= Speed Disk (from Norton Utilities 1.1)
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= Command-click the little rhomboid just in front of the string
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= "Version 1.1".
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=
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The large letters that make up the name "SPEED DISK" swap themselves
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pair-by-pair until the name eventually unjumbles itself again.
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(Contributed by Andy Calder)
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= WriteNow 2.2
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= Select "About WriteNow", then option-click on the About dialog.
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=
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Little men run out and change all the letters one-by-one.
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= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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=
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= And now, for something completely different!
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= Masatsugu Nagata has reported a really nifty trick to me that I
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= don't have the resources to confirm, but I'd be muchly appreciative
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= of any hacker with time on his hands who'd like to pin this one down.
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=
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= The ingredients:
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= One Macintosh SE/30
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= System 7.0 or 7.0.1
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= Kerry Clendinning's "Easy Keys 1.5" Control Panel
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= QUED/M 2.09 (The text editor from Paragon; little brother of NISUS)
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=
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= Assign some key combinations in Easy Keys Control Panel.
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= Launch QUED/M, and press the key combination.
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= Then, an "address error" bomb alert comes up, but you can click on
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= "Continue" to keep going -- go ahead and click "Continue".
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=
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= Everything is normal again until you quit QUED/M, at which time
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= the screen blanks to all white except for the figure of a Mac and
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= a "Mac SE/30 Engineering Hall of Fame" list.
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= The only way out is to press the reset button.
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=
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= Perhaps the address error hit the address for the "Hall of Fame"
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= accidentally. Hence my request: can anyone pinpoint what this
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= address is to run the credits?
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=
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