***** E A S T E R E G G H U N T R E S U L T S ***** Collected from various sources; the names in each entry show where I got the info, which may or may not be where the egg was first discovered. As usual, should you be caught or captured ... oops, wrong tape. No warranties, express or implied; your milage may vary, and there may be weather tomorrow. Contributions of additional Easter Eggs gleefully accepted and will be posted on a totally random basis; please send them to jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Note 3/30/92: I've tried to sort the rather jumbled text here, getting rid of duplicate entries and imposing a somewhat consistent layout. Since it's been many months since the last posting, there are probably some new Easter eggs not here; Excel 4 is probably a good source of an egg which should be included here but isn't.) Last update: 3/30/92 -------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Product: Windows 3.0 --------------------------------------------------- Source: unknown Press and hold F3 Type the four characters WIN3 Release F3 Hit the backspace key The display can be cleared by pressing the left mouse button. --------------------------------------------------- Product: Windows 3.1 --------------------------------------------------- Source: Tom Tanida (tanida@esosun.css.gov) 1. Hold down Cntl and Shift simultaneously (keep holding them down for all of the following steps). 2. Select Program Manager's Help menu option, and select "About Program Manager". 3. When the box pops up, double click inside one of the four panes in the Windows 3.1 logo. 4. Click OK. 5. Repeat steps 2-4 to see a flag waving. 6. Repeat steps 2-4 again to see the credits. (Is that a picture of Bill Gates there? :-) ) (Note: my tests indicate that if you try this a third time you'll get nothing; try it a fourth time and you're back at the waving flag. jcm) The display terminates immediately when the OK button is pressed (step 4). --------------------------------------------------- Product: Excel 3.0 for the PC --------------------------------------------------- Source: Aaron Wallace (aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU) who credits Computer Currents for the info Formula Goto the *last* cell: IV16384 Scroll until this is the only cell visible, in the upper left corner of the screen. Set its row height and column width to 0 Double click on the little button in the upper left corner. --------------------------------------------------- Product: Excel 3.0 for the Mac --------------------------------------------------- Source: Arthur Evans (ae@sei.cmu.edu) Under Excel 3.0: Open a new worksheet and select a cell. Using STYLE in the FORMAT menu, give it style EXCEL. Open the About... menu from the Apple menu click in the Excel symbol. Keep waiting -- there are two screens. -------------------------------------------------- Product: Word for Windows, v1.1 -------------------------------------------------- Source: Todd Lutz (tlutz@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com) Here is a hidden feature of Word for Windows: 1. Turn CAPS LOCK on. 2. Choose Format, Define Styles, Options. 3. In the Based On field, select Normal. 4. You will get an error message, select OK. 5. Select Cancel. 6. Select Help, About. 7. Make sure your mouse cursor is inside the help box, then press the following four keys all at the same time: OPUS You should get some fireworks with the authors names scrolling on the screen. -------------------------------------------------- Product: Word for Windows, v2.0 -------------------------------------------------- Source: nancyb@ryko.enet.dec.com (nancy b.) To see some cute animation, a not-so-subtle jab at WordPerfect, and a list of those responsible for "wizardry", "quality", etc... on the Word for Windows 2.0 project: 1) Start WfW 2.0. 2) In the Tools menu, click on Macro. 3) For the Macro Name, type spiff 4) Click on Edit. 5) Delete the lines Sub MAIN and End Sub 6) In the File menu, choose Close. 7) You will be asked if you want to save the changes. Click on Yes. 8) In the Help menu, click on About. 9) Click on the Word icon in the upper left, and enjoy ;-). If you have high resolution drivers, you might not see that awful green WordPerfect monster or the little people jumping up and down in glee after they make it go away. If all you see is the fireworks with the credits rolling in the foreground, then this is the case. Change to a lower resolution (800x600 or 640x480) driver to see the first part also. --------------------------------------------------- Product: Other Windows applications on a PC --------------------------------------------------- Source: Joe Robison (joero@microsoft.com) From: pfeil@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Hank Pfeil-Alumnus) > >Here's a neat trick you can play on your computer: Start "Solitaire" >... Now, if the card game only had a cheat mode.... There is. If you're playing "Draw Three" you can hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click on the deck to draw single cards (just don't hit the Del key!) --------------------------------------------------- Product: Macintosh hardware and OS --------------------------------------------------- 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: Amiga hardware and software --------------------------------------------------- Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu) On the Amiga (NB), perss and hold the following keys: LeftShift, LeftAlt, RightShift, RightAlt Now press one of the 10 function keys. (Keep those four keys down!) Each function key produces a different message. To get the rude message, insert a disk into the internal drive. (Still holding down all those keys?) Now eject it. The rude message has been deleted from newer versions of KickStart. Get 1.2/33.166 or earlier. --------------------------------------------------- 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!" --------------------------------------------------- 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) Here's what my private archives have to say on the subject of Amiga Easter Eggs. Like Mr. Morris, I have a collection of these. -------------------- ~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: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us) I wrote: >> Version 1.0 of the Amiga OS Workbench had credits for the hardware >>and software team hidden tucked into some unused bytes. They were accessed >>by holding down 6 keys and pressing a 7th. By holding down the same six >>keys _and_ ejecting the internal floppy disk you could get: > >> "We built the Amiga..." > >> and when you pushed the floppy back in: > >> "...and Commodore f**ked it up!" > >> Sour grapes. and Joe Morris replied: >I keep a small summary of the triggers for Easter eggs which people report >on the net and occasionally repost them in response to a query. (Not >*every* query or I would be reposting on almost a daily basis...) > >So...do you know (or does anyone on the net know) the exact sequence of >keystrokes needed to generate this egg? Is it *any* six keys, or is there >some specific set or sequence of keys? If possible it would be nice to >have someone actually try them (I don't have an Amiga to test) since >memory isn't always reliable as I repeatedly discover... Well, it's been a long time since I did this and I probably have it wrong, and I no longer have a copy of that version, etc., etc. But...I think that one held down both shift keys, both alt keys and both "Amiga" keys, and pressed the function keys in order, to get the ten credits. The delete key was held down and the disk was ejected to get the first part of the last message, and pushed back in to get the second part. This is fairly well known in the Amiga community, and the fun stopped when the biggest Amiga magazine published this little gem. Unfortunetly I had to get rid of all my old copies of "Amiga World" so I cannot check. P.S. Yes, I typed this on an old Amiga 1000, but don't worry; I'm not dangerous. --------------------------------------------------- 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 In article <1992Jan2.122451.18215@news.stolaf.edu>, seebs@asgaard.acc .stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet) writes: > A quick search through KS2.04 reveals only two things that I noticed: > > 1] something like "what secret message?". (don't remember - I checked this > a few months back.) > 2] in hex, FE ED C0 ED BA BE. :) > The hidden Amiga messages were on the Amiga 1000, and then only on earlier units. One of the messages, accessed by holding down both "Amiga" keys and two other keys WHILE inserting a disk into the floppy drive, was rather explicit in its opinion of Commodore after they acquired the Amiga company. Once word of that message got out, a purge was ordered of all hidden messages. BTW, the inside top cover of the Amiga is autographed by the machine developers (and somebody's dog). --------------------------------------------------- Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com) In article <1992Jan23.082612.29135@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun .cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes: >Has any diabolical usage occurred where the screen depicts a mouse, and you >drag the *real* mouse around for the purpose of pressing the button(s) on the >mouse on the screen? An undocumented feature of the Amiga 1.2 O/S. If you brought up the mouse preferences and clicked all four mouse buttons in the picture, then clicked an invisible gadget next to the date, the window title changed to a cute message about the programmer's SO. --------------------------------------------------- Product: None Of The Above (TM) --------------------------------------------------- Source: Zebee Johnstone (zebee@ucs.adelaide.edu.au) The Data General AOS/VS 16 bit OS responds to XYZZY with "nothing happens". The new 32 bit AOS/VS II responds with "twice as much happens" ------------------------------- 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 VAXcluster data structures -------------------------- --- SCS Listening Process Directory --- Entry Address Connection ID Process Name Information ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------- 80308800 071D0000 SCS$DIRECTORY What city, plez? 803087A0 071D0001 MSCP$TAPE NOT PRESENT HERE 80308740 071D0002 MSCP$DISK NOT PRESENT HERE --------------------------------------------------- Product: Hewlett-Packard products --------------------------------------------------- Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us) In a prior article Norman Soley writes: >In a prior article Steve VanDevender writes... >>The weirdest thing I found in my HP 150 is that the phrase "My >>mind is going..." is burned in one of the ROMs. I have no idea >>why it's there or if it would ever appear on the screen. My pet >>theory is that it's a diagnostic that appears if some of the ROMs >>are missing (a la the HAL dismantling scene in 2001). >More likely someone noticed there were a few unused bytes at the end of the >ROM and slid that in as a joke. There is the well know story of the "resist >the draft" message that's stored in some user inaccesable (usually) part of >someone's LOGO and one or more of the VAX chips has "VAX, for those who care >enough to steal the best" in Russian on an unused part of the mask.... >In all cases the companies involved claimed no knowledge of these when >discovered. --------------------------------------------------- Source: Mik Butler (mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com) >If I remember correctly there was an easter egg in the 150 that would >cause it to respond to XYZZY in the right circumstances. >The 'My mind is going' may well have been the response. > >Rodney Brown, Co-Cam Computer Group, ACSNet: rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind is going..." message, send or type the sequence &a? --------------------------------------------------- Source: Steve VanDevender (stevev@grayback.uoregon.edu) In article <44880008@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Mik Butler) writes: > > To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind > is going..." message, send or type the sequence &a? Thank you thank you thank you. I discovered the "My mind is going..." message when I was in larval stage not long after I got my 150 and wrote a memory scanner. Only now, almost eight years later, do I know how to get the message. It indeed works on my HP 150 with Rev B roms. ============================================================ * * * End of File * * *