pepper@ncuug.UUCP (Angeli Wahlstedt) (07/08/90)
I am posting this on basis of my friend....he is writing a book on
"easter eggs" (which will be explained below), and if anyone knows about
one, he would like to hear about it. You can send e-mail to me, and I will
forward them to him, or leave your replies here on the net -- I'll keep
monitoring the groups.
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I am writing a book listing "Easter Eggs." I'd be sincerely
grateful for any contributions you might be able to make.
What are Easter Eggs? Easter Eggs are little undocumented
"goodies" that programmers hide in their programs. For
example:
In a beta version of "HAL," a Lotus 1-2-3 add-in for the IBM,
if you typed in "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," the program
would respond "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."
In "Karateka," a martial arts game for the Apple, if you
booted the back side of the disk, the game would come up
-down and mirror-image.
Likewise, in "Ultima V" for the Apple, yelling "flip-flop"
would invert the screen.
The Mac SE ROMs contain a digitized picture of the
development team.
...and so on. Please send any other Easter Eggs of which you
are aware to me on Compuserve (76004,2654) or by mail to:
Easter Eggs
Cliff Dirgo
417 East County Road 66E
Fort Collins, CO 80524
Any system is fair game - IBM, Apple, Mac, Atari,
Commodore, Nintendo, whatever! Any neat undocumented
feature is applicable. When in doubt, send it off to me.
Please try to list the version of the software and what
exactly it takes to bring up the Easter Egg. If all you have is a
rumor, though, that will work, too.
P.S. I think this would also make an excellent thread
somewhere.
Thank you!!!
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Angeli "Ms. Pepper" Wahlstedt
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