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Apple Easter Eggs Hardware By: David K. Every & Daniel Fanton (C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved. All PowerMac ROMs Or at least all PowerMac ROMs before the iMac and Blue & White G3s (which moved most of the ROM into RAM). Even then, this stuff is probably still in there -- you just gotta find it. Secret Messages There is a testimonial to Gary Davidian, the Apple software guru who wrote the 680x0 emulator code that lurks inside every PowerMac. Sometimes this is at location DMA 40B2E280 999. Bill Woody ([email protected]) set up a mission for himself: to find the testimonial to Gary Davidian in the ROM. Wanting to find the homage to Gary Davidian which supposedly lies in the PowerPC ROMs, he wrote a simple program to look for ASCII strings larger than 10 characters and display them. And viola -- in all the symbols, code and other random garbage, he found the following in the ROMs of a 7500/100: FFF6E7C0: 680x0 Emulation written by Gary Davidian And that wasn't all that he found. FFF7735C: Dynamic Recompilation by Eric Traut FFCCD942: v2.1 Rules! Long Live M. Appleman, S. Williams, A. Ludtke FFCD00B5: Software by Casey King, Hardware by James Lundblad and Mohammed Sritip FFCFC6A2: SO...WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT? FFD63A48: Eric Traut & Sean Parent FFEC5B47: Hey, put this in ROM for real! The locations (and sometimes the contents) of these strings may move from ROM version to ROM version -- but this should be in all PowerMacs. According to the copyright information his ROM was built on : FFEFFF16: Thursday, May 18, 1995 Created: 09/17/98 Updated: 11/09/02 Top of page Top of Section Home