Talk:Xyzzy (computing)

message: I removed this text (bold):
 This feature is present in all versions, but under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0
 (and most recently Vista) the pixel is only visible if the standard
 Explorer desktop is not running (not true with XP - definately works on
 a plain black background).
Perhaps anyone can check if this cheat in minesweeper works in the newer versions of Windows?
I'm 100% sure that this worked on my old Compaq 366 with Windows 98 while running the standard Explorer desktop. I wasn't allowed to change things like that on our machine back then, and I remember using this cheat quite frequently. Maybe there were some different versions that had different requirements (OEM vs. Retail, a vs. b, or Upgrade vs. Install)? x82hammer28x 22:27, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newer versions of [[Minesweeper (computer game)|Windows Minesweeper]] 

message: I think it would be appropriate to add this topic as a "see also" link. 85.227.226.235 (talk) 23:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there any actual connection to anything on the Zzyzx disambiguation page, or is this just a word with similar letters? --McGeddon (talk) 23:41, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: From looking at the links on the Zzyzx page, it doesn't appear to be related. I've never seen any use of zzyzx in connection with text adventures, either, so I doubt there's a connection. Alinnisawest (talk) 01:51, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you are referring to the all consonant word's meaning stretched back to dates in time before it was practical or even possible to have more than solely those within walking distance concurrence, when such words were not included on the list of publicly available standards, they are not only related, but one and the same noun, just not the noun  now known in these dates of time, as often variant spellings of thoughts are given distinctions which they are not. As the distinctions have more to do with situational occurrences, but not the actual meaning in thoughtDirtclustit (talk) 12:41, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zzyzx 

message: Prod tag had been added for invalid reasons ("nn") even though article is well-sourced. This is just the latest in a string of invalid deletion nominations from editor SuperSuperBoi. - Dravecky (talk) 04:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  prod tag removed 

message: Unless a source has considered it notable enough to write about, WP:GAMEGUIDE discourages how-to instructions for video games. As I see it, this only leaves us with Zork and the "several OSes". We could maybe mention that it's occasionally used as a cheat code as well, but we shouldn't bother detailing examples. --McGeddon (talk) 17:42, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nuked the whole lot and tagged the article for notability. This is even less notable than foo, which is a pretty awful article as-is. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:06, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  You went far beyond deleting game cheats, and hit several items of interest in computer history.  I undid your mass deletion, please try again, more carefully. BillMcGonigle (talk) 03:41, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  None of those appeared to be notable in any way beyond I-Spy trivialism either; they can be entirely summed up by the statement "xyzzy was occasionally used as a keyword in early games and operating systems which returned a statement such as 'nothing happens'". Even then, there's no secondary source which backs that up. They should be removed again. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cheat modes and Easter eggs 

message: I've only ever seen the word as "XYZZY" in the context of "Magic word XYZZY" and "MAGIC WORD XYZZY". Is there any reason the article is in lowercase? 69.29.71.112 (talk) 21:54, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: The HP 9836A computer had HPL 2.0 installed from the start and in order to use anything you needed to load the program from the disk drive, tape drive, or whatever else you had connected to the machine.  The computer also was a base for the HPIB and you could control many devices through the bus.  The computer was intended to be only a driving point of the test equipment creating automated testing of circuits in the telecommunications sector in the times before completely automated testing.  The manual didn't have the xyzzy command in it nor did it appear in any official documents but when I did a scan of all memory from 0000 to ffff i came back with the list of commands and one of them in the middle was "xyzzy".  I rushed to try it out and got the no cave response.  Oddly enough the same memory dump had "Help, I'm being held captive in a computer software factory."
Robert Dell (talk) 15:00, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  added hp 9836a computer 

message: I'm almost certain the key sequence for the Minesweeper cheat mode was xyzzy followed by Enter then Shift, not the other way around as stated in the article. A web search doesn't confirm either way, as both sequences seem to be commonly cited, but I'm pretty sure Enter followed by Shift was what I always used, and it always worked. 86.131.182.201 (talk) 22:19, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minesweeper Cheat Mode Key Sequence 

message: I'm uncomfortable with the assertion that xyzzy provides access to U-Boot on (some) Sun computers, since it's not documented as supporting SPARC. Clarification would be appreciated. 20:32, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sun and U-Boot