From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Easter Egg FAQ list
Date: 1 Apr 92 15:48:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: mwunix.jcmorris.702143336
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

It's been a while since this has been posted; in the meantime I've
cleaned up the listing and added the Easter eggs I've seen floating
by on the net.  As usual, contributions are welcome, especially with
the slew of recent Mac and PC program announcements.

Joe Morris

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***** E A S T E R   E G G   H U N T   R E S U L T S *****
 
Collected from various sources; the names in each entry show where
I got the info, which may or may not be where the egg was first
discovered.  As usual, should you be caught or captured ... oops,
wrong tape.  No warranties, express or implied; your milage may
vary, and there may be weather tomorrow.  Contributions of additional
Easter Eggs gleefully accepted and will be posted on a totally random
basis; please send them to jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org
 
(Note 3/30/92: I've tried to sort the rather jumbled text here, getting
rid of duplicate entries and imposing a somewhat consistent layout.
Since it's been many months since the last posting, there are probably
some new Easter eggs not here; Excel 4 is probably a good source of
an egg which should be included here but isn't.)
 
Last update: 3/30/92
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Product: Windows 3.0
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Source: unknown
 
Press and hold F3
Type the four characters WIN3
Release F3
Hit the backspace key
 
The display can be cleared by pressing the left mouse button.
 
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Product: Windows 3.1
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Source: Tom Tanida (tanida@esosun.css.gov)
 
 
1. Hold down Cntl and Shift simultaneously (keep holding them down for all
     of the following steps).
2. Select Program Manager's Help menu option, and select "About Program
     Manager".
3. When the box pops up, double click inside one of the four panes in the
     Windows 3.1 logo.
4. Click OK.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 to see a flag waving.
6. Repeat steps 2-4 again to see the credits.  (Is that a picture
     of Bill Gates there? :-) )
 
   (Note: my tests indicate that if you try this a third time you'll
   get nothing; try it a fourth time and you're back at the waving
   flag.  jcm)
 
The display terminates immediately when the OK button is pressed (step 4).
 
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Product: Excel 3.0 for the PC
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Source: Aaron Wallace (aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU) who credits Computer
        Currents for the info
 
Formula Goto the *last* cell: IV16384
Scroll until this is the only cell visible, in the upper left corner of the
    screen.
Set its row height and column width to 0
Double click on the little button in the upper left corner.
 
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Product: Excel 3.0 for the Mac
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Source: Arthur Evans (ae@sei.cmu.edu)
 
Under Excel 3.0: Open a new worksheet and select a cell.  Using STYLE in
the FORMAT menu, give it style EXCEL.  Open the About... menu from the
Apple menu click in the Excel symbol.  Keep waiting -- there are two
screens.
 
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Product: Word for Windows, v1.1
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Source: Todd Lutz (tlutz@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com)
 
Here is a hidden feature of Word for Windows:
  1. Turn CAPS LOCK on.
  2. Choose Format, Define Styles, Options.
  3. In the Based On field, select Normal.
  4. You will get an error message, select OK.
  5. Select Cancel.
  6. Select Help, About.
  7. Make sure your mouse cursor is inside the help box, then press the
     following four keys all at the same time: OPUS
 
You should get some fireworks with the authors names scrolling on the
screen.
 
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Product: Word for Windows, v2.0
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Source: nancyb@ryko.enet.dec.com (nancy b.)
 
    To see some cute animation, a not-so-subtle jab at WordPerfect,
    and a list of those responsible for "wizardry", "quality",
    etc...  on the Word for Windows 2.0 project:
 
    1) Start WfW 2.0.
    2) In the Tools menu, click on Macro.
    3) For the Macro Name, type   spiff
    4) Click on Edit.
    5) Delete the lines    Sub MAIN   and  End Sub
    6) In the File menu, choose Close.
    7) You will be asked if you want to save the changes.
       Click on Yes.
    8) In the Help menu, click on About.
    9) Click on the Word icon in the upper left, and enjoy ;-).
 
    If you have high resolution drivers, you might not see that awful
    green WordPerfect monster or the little people jumping up and
    down in glee after they make it go away.  If all you see is the
    fireworks with the credits rolling in the foreground, then this
    is the case.  Change to a lower resolution (800x600 or 640x480)
    driver to see the first part also.
 
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Product: Other Windows applications on a PC
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Source: Joe Robison (joero@microsoft.com)
 
 From: pfeil@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Hank Pfeil-Alumnus)
>
>Here's a neat trick you can play on your computer:  Start "Solitaire"
>...  Now, if the card game only had a cheat mode....
 
There is.  If you're playing "Draw Three" you can hold down
Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click on the deck to draw single cards
(just don't hit the Del key!)
 
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Product: Macintosh hardware and OS
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Source: Louis Koziarz (lnk10562@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
 
Product: Mac SE
 
Get into the debugger
Set PC to 41D789A  (i.e., >G 41D89A at the prompt)
 
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Source: Luke Mewburn (s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au)
 
Product: Macintosh II models (exact types uncertain); Mac SE/30 (hardware)
 
Set the system clock to the American release of the machine [what are
        the valid values?  jcm]
Reboot, holding down command-option-model name characters (e.g., on
        an FX you hold down cmnd-opt-f-x)
 
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Source: Louis Koziarz (lnk10562@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
      (and many, many others)
 
Product: Mac SE, Mac II ci
 
On a Macintosh SE, hit the programmer's switch, then type G 41D89A
 
On a Macintosh IIci, first set the date to 09/20/89, then restart
the machine and hold down Command+Opt+c+i during the reboot.
 
And if you're lucky enough to have an original copy of MultiFinder,
the About box has a simple tremendous list of credits.  But all
is not lost in the newer versions.  Leave the `About MultiFinder'
box open for about an hour.  It will turn into the message [rot13]
 
    V jnag zl, V jnag zl, V jnag zl ybbx naq srry.
 
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Source: Arthur Evans (ae@sei.cmu.edu)
 
Product: System 7
 
Under System 7 with the Finder running, select "About Finder" on the
Apple menu with the OPTION key to see a list of all developers.  Be
patient, it takes a while.  Using OPTION-COMMAND does that and also
turns the cursor into a smiley.
 
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Product: WORD 4 for the Mac
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Source: Louis Koziarz (lnk10562@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
 
Call up the "About Word..." dialog box
Press and hold the command key
Click on the flying W logo
 
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Product: Amiga hardware and software
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Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu)
 
On the Amiga (NB), perss and hold the following keys:
  LeftShift, LeftAlt, RightShift, RightAlt
Now press one of the 10 function keys.  (Keep those four keys down!)
Each function key produces a different message.
 
To get the rude message, insert a disk into the internal drive.
(Still holding down all those keys?)  Now eject it.
 
The rude message has been deleted from newer versions of KickStart.
Get 1.2/33.166 or earlier.
 
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Source: Joe Smith (jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM)
 
With an Amiga running AmigaDOS-1.2, hold down the left-shift + left-alt +
right-shift + right-alt and then press and release F1, then F2, etc.
This will display in the title bar the nicknames of the designers.
Here's a description from 2 years ago:
 
:Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
:Subject: Re: silly messages
:Message-ID: <5153@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
:Date: 10 Apr 89 18:07:32 GMT
:
:In article <1720@wpi.wpi.edu> pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) writes:
:>Were those silly little messages in workbench taken out in v1.3 OS?
:>The ones I am refering to can be seen when one hits LS-LA-RS-RA-Fx
:>while looking at the wkbnch screen...
:>
:>just wondering...
:
:Coincidentally, I forgot to metion in my last posting on this subject that
:it is not just on the workbench screen -- workbench must be loaded, i.e.,
:somewhere the line loadwb had to have been executed before any of this
:happens.  Sadly, the messages are not still there, or if they are, they are
:brought up in some other way in V1.3.
:
:I retraced my steps so to speak, and have come up with the last 2 messages
:mentioned in that last post.  Both shifts, both Alt's, F10, pop out df0:
:disk for one message.  Then, WHILE STILL HOLDING ALL OF THAT (important!!),
:position the pointer in the screen drag bar (at the top), hold down the
:left mouse button (or simulate it by also catching the left A key next
:to left Alt) and reinsert the disk.
 
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Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us)
 
   Version 1.0 of the Amiga OS Workbench had credits for the hardware
and software team hidden tucked into some unused bytes. They were accessed
by holding down 6 keys and pressing a 7th. By holding down the same six
keys _and_ ejecting the internal floppy disk you could get:
 
    "We built the Amiga..."
 
   and when you pushed the floppy back in:
 
    "...and Commodore f**ked it up!"
 
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Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com)
 
katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago) writes:
>    Version 1.0 of the Amiga OS Workbench had credits for the hardware
             ^^^--- 1.2
> and software team hidden tucked into some unused bytes.
 
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Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu)
 
Here's what my private archives have to say on the subject of Amiga
Easter Eggs.  Like Mr. Morris, I have a collection of these.
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~From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
 
You have to be running KickStart 1.2 (33.166 I think, I can't remember if
they were all there in the 33.180 release).
 
Now, press the following all at the same time,
 
        Left-Shift Left-Alt Right-Alt Right-Shift
 
and then press one of the 10 functions keys (while still holding down
the above four) and you get one of 10 different messages in the menu
bar.
 
Now for the fun bit.
 
Do the above, and then while holding down all 5 keys, insert a disk in the
internal drive, and you get *another* message, and for the classic conclusion
after all this (still holding down all 5 keys?) eject the disk, and the
message:
 
        We made Amiga, they fucked it up
 
appears in the menu bar.
 
 
Now another Amiga hidden message (also in KS1.2).
 
Go into preferences, on the first screen, there are pictures of two mice,
one to set the double-click speed and one to set the mouse speed.  Click
on each of the buttons on the mice 5 time in the following order.
 
         1234 1234 1234 1234 1234
 
           /------\    /------\
           | 1  2 |    | 3  4 |
           |      |    |      |
           |      |    |      |
           +------+    +------+
 
Now select printer setup, scroll all the way up the list of possible
printers, and then all the way down.
 
Then the title bar of the preferences window changes to something like
(it been a *long* time since I tried this):
 
        Congratulations =RJ=
 
Appearantly just as the guys finished the preferences tool, RJ Michel, one
of the Amiga designers became a father (everybody say aaahh!).
 
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Source: Jim Shaffer (jms@vanth.UUCP)
 
Dale Luck, formerly of the Amiga development team, tells a story about
hacking the system software when the custom chips were still on
breadboards.  To prevent blowing out the hardware, he put an anti-static
mat on the floor and convinced everyone to go barefoot.
 
They would also dance during late-night compiler runs to prevent falling
asleep.  One of the hidden messages in version 1.2 credits "Moral Support:
Joe Pillow and the Dancing Fools."
 
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Source: Jim Shaffer (jms@vanth.UUCP)
 
Incidentally, I just re-checked my version of KickStart 1.2.  The "We made
the Amiga, they..." sequence is replaced by "The Amiga - Born a Champion,
Still a Champion."  I couldn't find anything at all in KickStart 1.3.
 
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Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us)
 
  I wrote:
>>   Version 1.0 of the Amiga OS Workbench had credits for the hardware
>>and software team hidden tucked into some unused bytes. They were accessed
>>by holding down 6 keys and pressing a 7th. By holding down the same six
>>keys _and_ ejecting the internal floppy disk you could get:
>
>>    "We built the Amiga..."
>
>>   and when you pushed the floppy back in:
>
>>    "...and Commodore f**ked it up!"
>
>>  Sour grapes.
 
and Joe Morris replied:
>I keep a small summary of the triggers for Easter eggs which people report
>on the net and occasionally repost them in response to a query.  (Not
>*every* query or I would be reposting on almost a daily basis...)
>
>So...do you know (or does anyone on the net know) the exact sequence of
>keystrokes needed to generate this egg?  Is it *any* six keys, or is there
>some specific set or sequence of keys?  If possible it would be nice to
>have someone actually try them (I don't have an Amiga to test) since
>memory isn't always reliable as I repeatedly discover...
 
   Well, it's been a long time since I did this and I probably have it
wrong, and I no longer have a copy of that version, etc., etc.
 
   But...I think that one held down both shift keys, both alt keys and
both "Amiga" keys, and pressed the function keys in order, to get the
ten credits. The delete key was held down and the disk was ejected to
get the first part of the last message, and pushed back in to get the
second part.
 
   This is fairly well known in the Amiga community, and the fun stopped
when the biggest Amiga magazine published this little gem. Unfortunetly
I had to get rid of all my old copies of "Amiga World" so I cannot check.
 
P.S. Yes, I typed this on an old Amiga 1000, but don't worry; I'm not
     dangerous.
 
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Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com)
 
katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago) writes:
>    But...I think that one held down both shift keys, both alt keys and
> both "Amiga" keys, and pressed the function keys in order, to get the
> ten credits. The delete key was held down and the disk was ejected to
                   ^^^^^^^^^^--- mouse button.
> get the first part of the last message, and pushed back in to get the
> second part.
 
It also only works with rev 1.2 of the OS. There was also another egg
hidden in the printer preferences. It was a lot less obvious. :->
 
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Source: rivero@vxd.mdcbbs.com
 
In article <1992Jan2.122451.18215@news.stolaf.edu>, seebs@asgaard.acc
           .stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet) writes:
> A quick search through KS2.04 reveals only two things that I noticed:
>
> 1] something like "what secret message?". (don't remember - I checked this
> a few months back.)
> 2] in hex, FE ED C0 ED BA BE. :)
>
 
  The hidden Amiga messages were on the Amiga 1000, and then only on earlier
units. One of the messages, accessed by holding down both "Amiga" keys and
two other keys WHILE inserting a disk into the floppy drive, was rather
explicit in its opinion of Commodore after they acquired the Amiga company.
Once word of that message got out, a purge was ordered of all hidden messages.
 
  BTW, the inside top cover of the Amiga is autographed by the machine
developers (and somebody's dog).
 
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Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com)
 
In article <1992Jan23.082612.29135@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun
           .cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>Has any diabolical usage occurred where the screen depicts a mouse, and you
>drag the *real* mouse around for the purpose of pressing the button(s) on the
>mouse on the screen?
 
An undocumented feature of the Amiga 1.2 O/S. If you brought up the mouse
preferences and clicked all four mouse buttons in the picture, then clicked
an invisible gadget next to the date, the window title changed to a cute
message about the programmer's SO.
 
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Product: None Of The Above (TM)
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Source: Zebee Johnstone (zebee@ucs.adelaide.edu.au)
 
The Data General AOS/VS 16 bit OS responds to XYZZY with "nothing happens".
 
The new 32 bit AOS/VS II responds with "twice as much happens"
 
-------------------------------
 
Source: Tim Shoppa (shoppa@erin.caltech.edu)
 
   Typing "SHOW USERS" at the RT11 prompt (a single-user system) gives
   a response of "NOBODY BUT YOU!".
 
-------------------------------
 
Source: Denis Fortin (fortin@zap.uucp)
 
Also in RT-11:
    Typing HELP FOO
    produced NO HELP IS AVAILABLE FOR FOO
 
    But typing HELP ME
    produced NO HELP IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU
 
-------------------------------
 
Source: Joe Newcomer and many others:
 
under TECO, originally under TOPS-10 and subsequently ported to other
platforms (including this Easter egg):
 
Type the command:
 
    MAKE LOVE
 
which is supposed to create a new file named LOVE using TECO.  The
command executes as intended, but only after responding with a message:
 
    Not war?
 
-------------------------------
 
Source: Barry Ferris (ferris@netcom.COM)
 
of course, this wasn't the only TECO egg...type in:
 
         $ make  war
to get
          not love?
 
-------------------------------
 
Source: Earle Ake (ake@dayton.saic.com)
 
  VMS Easter Eggs:
 
$ anal/system
 
VAX/VMS System analyzer
 
SDA> show cluster/scs
 
VAXcluster data structures
--------------------------
 
         --- SCS Listening Process Directory ---
 
Entry Address     Connection ID     Process Name    Information
-------------     -------------     ------------    -----------
 
  80308800          071D0000        SCS$DIRECTORY   What city, plez?
  803087A0          071D0001        MSCP$TAPE       NOT PRESENT HERE
  80308740          071D0002        MSCP$DISK       NOT PRESENT HERE
 
 
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Product: Hewlett-Packard products
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Source: Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us)
 
In a prior article Norman Soley writes:
 
>In a prior article Steve VanDevender writes...
 
>>The weirdest thing I found in my HP 150 is that the phrase "My
>>mind is going..." is burned in one of the ROMs.  I have no idea
>>why it's there or if it would ever appear on the screen.  My pet
>>theory is that it's a diagnostic that appears if some of the ROMs
>>are missing (a la the HAL dismantling scene in 2001).
 
>More likely someone noticed there were a few unused bytes at the end of the
>ROM and slid that in as a joke. There is the well know story of the "resist
>the draft" message that's stored in some user inaccesable (usually) part of
>someone's LOGO and one or more of the VAX chips has "VAX, for those who care
>enough to steal the best" in Russian on an unused part of the mask....
 
>In all cases the companies involved claimed no knowledge of these when
>discovered.
 
 
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Source: Mik Butler (mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com)
 
>If I remember correctly there was an easter egg in the 150 that would
>cause it to respond to XYZZY in the right circumstances.
>The 'My mind is going' may well have been the response.
>
>Rodney Brown,  Co-Cam Computer Group,  ACSNet: rdb@mel.cocam.oz.au
 
To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind
is going..." message, send or type the sequence <esc>&a?
 
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Source: Steve VanDevender (stevev@grayback.uoregon.edu)
 
   In article <44880008@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> mik@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Mik
   Butler) writes:
   >
   > To get an HP150 (or HP2625/HP2628 terminal) to produce the "my mind
   > is going..." message, send or type the sequence <esc>&a?
 
Thank you thank you thank you.  I discovered the "My mind is
going..." message when I was in larval stage not long after I got
my 150 and wrote a memory scanner.  Only now, almost eight years
later, do I know how to get the message.  It indeed works on my
HP 150 with Rev B roms.
 
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