November 2nd, 1992
																																																													 3:30 AM
																																																			 Fair Oaks, California




Easter eggs for the Mac !!!


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This list has been compiled from several different sources, and as such some of the Easter eggs may not work properly with your configuration, if at all.  Use them at your own risk !!!


																								HARDWARE EASTER EGGS


Ñ MACINTOSH PLUS

From the debugger, enter ÒG 40E118Ó.  This gives you a ÒStolen from Apple ComputerÓ message.


Ñ 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 ÒG 41D89AÓ.  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.


Ñ 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.  (The keys ÔXÕ and ÔOÕ were chosen because the development code-name of the Classic was the ÒMac XOÓ.)


Ñ 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 the restart.


Ñ 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 the restart.


Ñ APPLE FAX MODEM

While holding down the button on the front panel, turn on the modem.  The modem will beep three times.  After the three beeps, press the button again timed exactly where a fourth beep would have come (that is, spaced exactly with the same ÒrhythmÓ).  If your timing is correct, the modem will speak the digitally-recorded voices of the three developers saying their names.



																					SYSTEM SOFTWARE EASTER EGGS
											(Ò7.XÓ refers to System Software version 7.0.0 or higher)


Ñ MULTIFINDER 1.0 (distributed with System Software prior to 6.0)

Hold down Command and Option while selecting ÒAbout MultiFinderÉÓ from the bottom of the Apple menu.  A scrolling list of credits appears.


Ñ MULTIFINDER 6.0

Select ÒAbout MultiFinderÉÓ and leave the dialog up for about an hour or more.  (Yes, this means you can't use your machine meanwhileÉ).  A message will appear:
    ÒI want myÓ
    ÒI want myÓ
    ÒI want my l--k and f--lÓ
You can also see this message if you snoop around in the 'STR#' resources of MultiFinder for a while with ResEdit.


Ñ SYSTEM 6.0.7 OR SYSTEM 7.x

Look through the data fork of the System File with a disk editing program (such as Norton Utilities, MacTools, or FEdit), or hold shift and ÒOpenÉÓ the System file with MS Word.  The string ÒHelp! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system software factory!Ó is at the end of the data fork.


Ñ SYSTEM 6.0.7J (Kanjitalk)

Set the clock to January 1, 1992, and restart.  The startup screen says ÒHappy new yearÓ in Japanese.


Ñ SYSTEM 7.x

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 an application has crashed -- sometimes you can use this trick to regain control of your machine long enough to save your work from other applications and restart your Mac (after you use this trick, you should generally restart as soon as possible, because memory may have been trashed).  This is actually a documented feature of System 7.  However, since lots of people never bother to read their manualsÉ


Ñ FINDER 7.x

Hold down Option while choosing ÒAbout This MacintoshÉÓ.  The menu option changes to ÒAbout the FinderÉÓ, and if balloon help is turned on, the balloon now reads ÒDisplays a dialog with the original Finder picture.Ó.  The original picture of the mountains from System 1.0 appears.  If the creation date of the invisible ÒDesktop FolderÓ 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 ÒAboutÓ to get a goofy-face cursor.


Ñ CACHES (Quadra Control Panel) 7.x

Option-click on the version number in the upper right-hand corner.  The Ò040Ó icon will whoosh over, revealing the name of the programmer.


Ñ CAPS LOCK (PowerBook Extension) 7.x

Turn on balloon help, press Caps Lock, and point to the up-arrow icon in the menu bar.  The balloon help reads: ÒThis file allows your Macintosh TIM or Derringer to display an iconÉÓ.  These were the working names of the PowerBooks; Apple forgot to change the extension before System 7.0.1 was released !


Ñ COLOR (Control Panel) 7.x

Click on the Sample Text a few times. The strings Òby Dean YuÓ Ò& Vincent LoÓ alternate.


Ñ LABELS (Control Panel) 7.x

Delete all the label names in the Labels control panel, and reboot.  The labels are now ÒNone,Ó ÒaÓ, ÒlÓ, ÒaÓ, ÒnÓ, ÒjÓ, ÒeÓ, ÒfÓ.


Ñ MAP (Control Panel) 6.0.x and 7.x

	1. Type MID as the city name, and click Find.  The location found is the ÒMiddle of
		  NowhereÓ, an insignificant location in the middle of the South Atlantic.  (System
      7.x only)

	2. Click on the version number Ò7.xÓ.  This will insert the string Òv.7.x, by Mark DavisÓ
      into the city name field.

	3. Press Option and click the Find button.  This will search alphabetically to every
			city stored in the control panel.

	4. In the Finder, if you select the Map Control Panel icon and open it from the File
			menu after pressing either Shift, Option, or Shift-Option, the map displayed will
			be at either 200% resolution, 400% resolution, or 800% resolution, respectively.

	5. Click anywhere in the image of the map and drag.  You'll strollÉerÉuhÉscroll
			around the world.

	6. Copy either the color map from the Scrapbook supplied with Apple's System Soft-
			ware version 7.x, or the color map from the ÒGlobeÓ module from After Dark by
			Berkeley Systems.  Open the Map Control Panel and choose Paste, and click
			ÒReplaceÓ when prompted to do so.  You'll replace the standard black and white map
			with the new color version.


Ñ MEMORY (Control Panel) 7.x (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.


Ñ MONITORS (Control Panel) 7.x

Click the version number (Ò7.xÓ) in the control panel window.  When you do this, a box pops up with the names of the people who wrote Monitors.  While you hold down the mouse button, tap Option.  When you press Option, the smiley face sticks out its tongue.  After tapping Option at least times (the more, the better), the names begin to get rearranged and some first and last names get replaced with ÒBlueÓ or ÒMeaniesÓ.


Ñ PUZZLE (Desk Accessory) 7.x

You can paste any graphic from the Clipboard into Puzzle's main window by using the standard Paste command in the Edit menu.  You can also create your own Puzzle graphic in any graphics program and again, copy to/paste from the Clipboard.  Ideally, any graphics you create will be 79 pixels wide by 79 pixels tall, or else Puzzle will automatically scale the graphic to fit those dimensions.  You can also copy the picture from the Puzzle and look at the Clipboard to see what it will look like when solved.  Finally, you can choose Clear from the Edit menu to rotate between the standard Apple logo graphic, an old-style number puzzle graphic, and whatever graphics you've currently pasted (however, once you've Cleared a pasted graphic you must re-paste it to use it again; only the Apple logo and number puzzle are permanently stored within Puzzle.)


Ñ MACSBUG (under Finder 7.x)

Turn on Balloon Help and point to the MacsBug file.  The balloon reads: ÒThis file provides programmers with information proving that it really was a hardware problemÉÓ.


Ñ QUICKTIME 1.x

	1. Turn on Balloon Help and point to the QuickTime file.  The balloon reads: Òtime n. A
			nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession
			from the past to the present to the future.Ó.

	2. You can make Startup Movies the same way you make StartUpScreens.  Just rename
			your favorite movie to ÒStartup MovieÓ, drop it in your System folder, and restart.

	3.  In Simple Player, hold down Option as you select ÒAbout Simple PlayerÉÓ.  The two
			movie frames now have greyscaled cats in them.



																				THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE EASTER EGGS


Ñ ADOBE PHOTOSHOP¨

Hold down the Option key and select ÒAbout PhotoshopÉÓ.  A dialog crediting ÒKnoll SoftwareÓ as the original designers appears.


Ñ CLARIS CAD

Hold down the Option key and select ÒAbout Claris CADÉÓ.  A system configuration summary appears.


Ñ DART (Apple's Disk Archiving and Retrieval)

Select ÒAbout DARTÉÓ, and click on the picture of the dartboard.  A credits animation will play; clicking on the text area while the credits are displaying will make them go by faster.


Ñ DISINFECTANT

Select ÒAbout DisinfectantÉÓ, and hold any menu down to pause the advancing virus names while the music plays.  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.  Holding down a menu pauses the viruses (but not the music), and if you hold the menu down long enough, the entire theme song (John Philip Sousa's ÒLiberty Bell MarchÓ) will play !  (You may have to release the mouse button every now and then if the music does stop).


Ñ FLASHWRITE II

Hold down Option as you select ÒAbout FlashWrite IIÉÓ under the ÒstarÓ logo.  A Mr. Mojo Risin' quotation appears.


Ñ HYPERCARD 2.x

Hold down Option as you select ÒAbout HypercardÉÓ.  You get (in 2.1 only) a dialog box describing your system setup, and (in either 2.0 or 2.1) the chooser name, if you've entered one, appears in the ÒHyperCard byÓ title.  (That is, if you entered ÒJoe CoolÓ as your name in the Chooser (6.0) or Sharing Setup (7.0), the top of the window will read ÒHyperCard by Joe CoolÓ.  Also, on a Quadra, you will be told your system is a ÒMacintosh MacintoshÓ.


Ñ INSTALLER 3.x

	1. After dismissing the initial welcome dialog, type ÒskiÓ.  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 (this works under
			System 6.0.x only).

	2. Hold down command and option while the Easy Install screen is up.  The Help button
			becomes ÒAboutÓ, and clicking on it brings up a few screens of credits.


Ñ JAM SESSION

Choose ÒAbout Jam SessionÉÓ.  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.


Ñ KIWIENVELOPES! 3.1

Choose ÒAbout KiwiEnvelopes!ÉÓ.  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.


Ñ MACDRAW PRO

Hold down Option while selecting ÒAbout MacDraw ProÉÓ.  The dialog shows your system setup.


Ñ MACPAINT 2.0 (only the first few copies, before Claris caught it)

Hold down Tab and Space while choosing ÒAbout MacPaintÉÓ.  A bitmap of a well-known painting of a nude zebra-striped woman atop a white zebra appears.


Ñ MICROSOFT EXCEL 3.0

	1. Open a new spreadsheet, then go to cell IV16384.  (Press Command-Right, then
			Command-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.

	2. Set the style of any cell to ÒexcelÓ (by selecting ÒFormat StylesÉÓ and typing
			ÒexcelÓ without the quotes).  Then choose ÒAbout ExcelÉÓ from the Apple menu and
			click on the big Excel icon.  A brief animation (ÒSo good, it hurts.Ó) alternates with
			the names of the developers (ÒRecalc or Die!Ó).


Ñ MICROSOFT WORD 3.x (and up)

	1. Spellcheck the word ÒchildcareÓ.  The spell-checker will suggest one word:
			ÒkidnaperÓ (sic). (checked with Word 3.01 and 4.0)

	2. Select ÒAbout Microsoft WordÉÓ and command-click on the Word icon.  The result-
			ing dialog box gives the names of beta-testers.


Ñ NORTON UTILITIES 1.1.x (and higher)

	1. Choose ÒAbout The Norton UtilitiesÉÓ.  Command-click the diamond just in front of
			the string ÒVersion x.xÓ in the About box.  When running 1.1.x, a list of the develop-
			ers appears.  When running version 2.0.x, a nifty caricature cartoon of the develop-
			ers appears.  In version 2.0.x, you can get the list of the developers by just clicking
			on the large icon of The Disk Doctor (click on the Doctor in his new position to
			make the list go away, or click OK).

	2. In Speed Disk (Norton Utilities 1.1), choose ÒAbout Speed DiskÉÓ.  Command-click
			the diamond just in front of the string ÒVersion 1.1Ó.  The large letters that make
			up the name ÒSPEED DISKÓ swap themselves pair-by-pair until the name eventually
			unjumbles itself again.

	3. In the Filesaver Control Panel (Norton Utilities 2.0.x), click and hold on the life
			preserver icon to see the names of the two main developers.

	4. In Wipe Info (Norton Utilities 2.0.x), choose ÒAbout Wipe InfoÉÓ.  Command-click on
			the diamond icon to change the cursor to the hand-with-eraser cursor.  Drag
			through the entire About window without clicking the mouse button, and zeroes
			will appear in the window.  When the window is about 99% full of zeroes, you'll
			hear a nice little sound, followed by a picture of the developers.

	5. In Norton Backup (Norton Utilities 2.0.x), choose ÒAbout Norton BackupÉÓ.  Click on
			the diamond next to the string ÒVersion 2.0.xÓ, and you'll hear a pretty sound before
      the About box goes away.


Ñ 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 ÒQuicKeys keeps on going!Ó is displayed.


Ñ RESEDIT 2.x

These Easter Eggs are documented in the book ÒResEditª Reference: For ResEdit version 2.1Ó, available from the Apple Programmers' & Developers' Association (APDA) at (800) 282-2732.  The book also includes many keyboard shortcuts and some special ResEdit features; however, here are a few of the best.

	1. Hold Command-Option and choose ÒAbout ResEditÉÓ.  You'll see a list of credits.

	2. There is a hidden Change Color command in the pixel (bit) editors.  If you hold down
			the Command key and pick a new color, all pixels of the current foreground (or
			background) color are changed to the new color.

	3. Hold down Shift, Option, and Command as you choose ÒAbout ResEditÉÓ.  You can
			now enter Òpig modeÓ, along with an oinking pig sound.  When you put ResEdit into
			pig mode, resources will be compacted and purged each time ResEdit goes through
			its event loop (several times a second).  However, since this makes ResEdit slower,
			it's not of much use outside Apple; in fact, it's usually only used to debug ResEdit
			itself !!!  If you're writing you're own editor, though, you can use pig mode to test
			your editor.  Finally, if you turn on pig mode while running ResEdit from a floppy
			disk, the disk will ÒoinkÓ a few times each second (be warned, on occasion this can
			cause a crashÉ).


Ñ SOUNDEDIT (not for Pro versions)

Choose ÒAbout SoundEditÉÓ.  A bomb alert box will come up, but after a second you'll see the fuse start to burn (along with appropriate sound effects).  Once it blows up, you'll see a list of credits along with a sad doggie and bomb debris.


Ñ TEACHTEXT 1.1 (and up)

Hold down the option key while you select ÒAbout TeachTextÉÓ.  An extra list of odd names appears (possibly developers ?).


Ñ TO DO! 3.1

Option-click on the copyright message at the bottom of the window.  A poem by the author appears.  (You may have to make the window a little bigger to see all of it).


Ñ WRITENOW 2.2

Select ÒAbout WriteNowÉÓ, then option-click on the About dialog.  Little men run out and change all the letters one-by-one.



				Many of these goodies came from a file called MacTricks that a friend of mine gave me.  Although it was a text document, apparently it had been set up to be used on the UNIX platform.  As such, I've edited out all of the unnecessary characters used by that system.  I've also gone through and corrected some minor spelling and grammar errors.  I've verified what Easter eggs I could out of this list, and I've added all of the ones that I know of.
				The original author of MacTricks is Brian S. Kendig, from Princeton University.  He requested on the original file that you address any new goodies to him, but I'm not sure as to how to get in touch with him.  If anyone knows how to do so, please contact me so that I can update this file with the proper information (after all, this was apparently his baby, and I don't want to take anything away from his work).  In the meantime, however, I'll continue to update this file with new Easter eggs if anyone wants to send them to me.  Leave me some E-mail on America Online, or send me a note if that's more to your liking.


Michael B. Johnson
P.O. Box 2503
Citrus Heights, CA  95610

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