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Apple Easter Eggs
Hardware: Macintosh SE/30


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

Macintosh SE/30

Macintosh SE/30 Code Name: Green Jade, Fanfair

What are you staring at?

  1. Press the interrupt switch to get into the debugger.
  2. Use the command DMA 4082E853 20 to display a few bytes of memory from location 4082E853 onwards.

The bytes spell out in ASCII, "WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?"

Mystery Egg

  1. Press the interrupt switch to get into the debugger
  2. Type G 04D98A 999.

There is supposed to be something in the RAM around there -- I don't know what. If you find out, let me know.

Hall of Fame

  1. Press the interrupt switch to get into the debugger
  2. Type G EB1000 into MacsBug or the interrupt debugger.

This displays the "Macintosh SE/30 Engineering Hall of Fame". The only way out is to press your computer's reset button and restart.

NOTE: Entering pc=E11000;G works too.

Long way to the Hall of Fame

This one needs an SE/30 running System 7.0 (or 7.0.1) and something that patches "_Launch" trap. The list includes; Kerry Clendinning's "Easy Keys 1.5" Control Panel, OutToLaunchFKEY or LaunchFinderFKEY QUED/M 2.09.

  1. Assign some key combinations in Easy Keys Control Panel.
  2. Launch a program (like QUED/M), and press the key combination.

The "address error" bomb alert comes up, but you can click on "Continue" to keep going -- go ahead and click "Continue". Everything is normal again until you quit, at which time the screen blanks to all white except for a Mac icon and a "Mac SE/30 Engineering Hall of Fame" list.

Oh, yeah, like that sequence is something the average Joe will run into by accident.


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


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