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By: David K. Every
& Daniel Fanton
(C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved.
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History of Easter Eggs - where do they come from and why?
About
- Introduction - getting started
- Helping - get involved and get credit.
- Awards - this section has won many awards on it's own.
- Egging - going on your own egg-hunt.
System Eggs
- The Valley - The
earliest and best known of the easter eggs.
System 6 - MultiFinder - early
multifinder eggs
System 7 - Blue Meanies Messages - hidden message in many Systems' 7
- System 7 - lots of eggs
- System 7.5 Mood Swings
- System 7.5 Break-out Game
- System 7.5.5 Iguana
Flag
System 8 - 8.0, 8.1 - lots of eggs
- 8.5b (Allegro) - A beta egg, documented for posterity
- 8.5 Release - The "big" release egg for 8.5
- 8.5 Application Menu - secret about box
Control Panel Eggs
- Apple Data Detectors -hidden icon
- AutoRemounter - credit screen
- Cache Switch - credit
- CapsLock - code names
- Close View - balloon game
- Color - credit
- Control Strip - credit
- Date & Time -
- Desktop Pictures - hidden picture
- Editor Setup - very hidden picture
- Energy Saver - hidden credits
- Extension Manager - hidden credits
- File Synchronization - hidden scrolling credits
- Keyboard - hidden credits
- Labels - bug?
- Launcher - hidden credits
- Location Manager - hidden dialog and scrolling credits
- Mac Easy Open - hidden messages
- Map - lots of eggs
- Memory - hidden menu with credits
- Monitors - hidden menu with scrambled credits
- Monitor and Sound - hidden credits
- PC Setup - hidden DOS functionality
- Portable - credit screen
- PowerBook Assistant - credit screen
- PowerBook Display - credit screen
- PowerBook Setup - credit screen
- PowerPC - hidden image, balloons and functionality
- PPP - hidden credits
- QuickTake Image Access - hidden credits
- Remote Access - hidden boring credits
- Screen - hidden credits
- Sound - hidden credits
- Things - hidden image, text and balloons
- TV Setup - hidden credits
- Users & Groups - scrolling credits
- Web Sharing - balloon credits
- Window Shade - credits
Extension Eggs
- AppleScript - hidden string and code name
- AppleVision - really hidden pictures
- AV Monitor Software - hidden pictures
- Assistant Toolbox - bug or not?
- Color Picker -
- MacsBug - lots of eggs
- Memory Manager - burried string
- Modem Tools - burried dialogs
- QuickDraw3D - hidden dialog
- QuickDrawGX - Hidden credits and features
- Sound Manager - hidden sound
- Startup Tuner - file type
- SystemAV - hidden head (icon)
- ThreadsLib - hidden text
Additions
Think of these as things that add functionality to the system, and have parts in many places (they include control panels, extensions, applications).
- Adobe Type Manager -hidden picture
- After Dark -hidden credits
- Apple Vision - lots of stuff.
- Communications - Explanation and links to their eggs.
- FileSharing - Monty Python Humor
- Help - Apple Guide and Help Guide stuff
- OpenDoc - hidden text
- QuickDraw3D - Hidden Dialogs and Pictures
- QuickDrawGX - Hidden credits and features
- QuickKeys -
- QuickTime - lots of hidden stuff
- Speech - Casper and the Easter Bunny
Programming / Toolbox Eggs
- CopyrightTrap - PowerPC Copyright Trap has a surprise
- Gestalt - everything all inclusive
- InsideMac - some Docuementation Eggs
- Mickey - Disney Connections?
- MPW - Apple's Mac Programmers Workshop's humorous errors.
- ResEdit - PigMode and Dialog
- Script.h - the Mac supports many languages, including Klingon
- Traps.h - Leftover Toolbox traps are defined
Utility Eggs
- Apple File Exchange - Hidden credits
- AppleScript Applets - Hidden dialog reminds who was first
- AppleScript Editor - Code names in hidden dialogs and balloons
- Apple System Profiler - Hidden Balloons
- Applet Runner (MRJ) - Hidden Dialog
- eWorld - Apple's online service. <- FIX ME!
- PowerBook File Assistant - shifting credits (interesting)
- Graphing Calculator - Balloons and features
- Simple Sound - Rant and Hidden Dialog
- Stickies - all versions from System 7.5 on.
- Sword - anti-Egg messages
- TeachText - Hidden Dialog
Computer Hardware Eggs
- Lowest Levels - Really hidden stuff! Like a sword etched into the G3!
- Stolen from Apple - where's waldo (the icon) - Mac Plus, MacSE, MacSE/30, MacIIx, MacIIcx,
- Sounds - Startup
Sounds and Death Chimes
- Mac128k / 512k / 512ke / Plus / SE - case etching
- Mac Portable (Luggable) - case etching
- MacIIcx & IIci -
case etching?
- Pre-MacPlus ROMs - Nicknames
- Early ROMs - Initials & Date
- PowerMac ROMs -
Hidden Credits
- Drive Info - even the
disk drive characters have hidden meanings
- SE/30 - "What are you staring at?", and other small gems.
- IIci - product team, What are you staring at?
- IIsi - What are you staring at?
- IIfx - product team
- Classic - Command-X-O ROM Disk Boot
- LCIII - Hidden ROM messages
- LC520 - Hidden ROM message
- Performa 630 - Hidden ROM messages
- Performa 6115 - Unusual hidden ROM messages
- Quadras (700, 900, 950, more?) - Hidden images
- 840AV (660AV?) - Secret
images and messages
- PowerMac 7100 - images and CUDA chip
- PowerMac 7500 - hidden message in lowmem?
- PowerMac 9500 - hidden message in lowmem?
- PowerMac (PCI) - Secret
ROM Image (7.5.2)
- Powerbook 170 - Hidden ROM messages
- Powerbook 190, 1400, 2300, 5300, PPC Upgraded PB500 - really hidden images
- Powerbook 500 - Hidden images
- Duos (Docks) - Hidden
images
- AppleII's - all the
Apple][ easter eggs
- Newton - all the eggs for the defunct but premier PDA.
- eMate - list of which Newton Eggs work
Peripheral Eggs
CD Eggs
- AppleLink CD - Spinning Cat-Head
- 7200 System CD - Hidden Movie
- MacAdvocate CD - Hidden Carnage Sound
- System 7.0 CD - Parade, Not a Parade
- System 7.1 AV CD - Hidden Movies and Pictures
- System 7.5 - Hidden movie
- System 7.5 Performa - Hidden Numbers
- System 7.5 Group Upgrade CD - Hidden Movie
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