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Apple Easter Eggs
Hardware: 840-AV


By: David K. Every
& Daniel Fanton
(C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved.

Quadra 840AV

Quadra 840AV: Quadra 1000, Cyclone

Secret Images

Apple has hidden two JPEG pictures in the ROM.

  1. To see them, run ROMmie.
  2. Then, open the dump file with CanOpener.

You will see the pictures. The JPEG code is marked with the text "AppleMark". You could probably find other ways to read the JPEG code by extracting it from ROMmie's dump file.

One Image is of people on the beach (and a dog):

The other image is of the team (on a boat? Patio?):

Secret Messages

  1. Drop into MacsBug and type DMA 40811FE8 999

In the ROM, you will see a large bunch of credits for the "The Super Romo Super Team", also known as the SuperMario ROM team. This includes the credits for Central, RISC, MSAD, Cyclone, and a special "thankzzz to all who contributed to past ROMs and system 7.x."

  1. In MacsBug type DMA F9A4D4 (in RAM)

It says "Barf, no more empty que elements-Leak Watching"

  1. In MacsBug type DMA E67E5E (in RAM)

The name "Caro Enricuccio" is repeated along with "Ah Que Couco".

  1. In MacsBug type DMA E5E83E (in RAM)

You will see a bunch of random and wierd words combined. This is what will be displayed:

"Peace, Cow Boys, Frogs, Sayonara, Krisprolls, No Maastricht, Vikings, Reindeer, Kurtoffein, Bowler Hats, Spaghetti, Dykes, Cead Mile Failte, Siesta, Kiwis, Bankers, Chocolate, Aussies, King Kong, Kim-Li-Sung, Sandokan, Equator, Made in, Sylvie Vartan, Praha, Tatra."

All three of the above eggs are in, I believe, the modem section of the hardware components -- and the person who found these had a Geoport Modem (which uses Express Modem software). So if you can't find them, let me know.


Created: 08/26/98
Updated: 11/09/02


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