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Actually, spreadsheets can be games too.

This was too easy. I think your comment was begging for this response, surely... :-)

Command & Conquer's Jurassic Park levels. I can't remember for the life of me now how you actually accessed these, but the original Command & Conquer had several hidden levels where you had to survive attacks by dinosaurs. I do, however, remember these being pretty hard in places.
According to this you just need to start the game with a parameter

27 pages of games easter eggs

Command & Conquer's Jurassic Park levels. I can't remember for the life of me now how you actually accessed these, but the original Command & Conquer had several hidden levels where you had to survive attacks by dinosaurs. I do, however, remember these being pretty hard in places.
According to this you just need to start the game with a parameter

27 pages of games easter eggs

The wooden computer burning in flames is derived from the 'printer on fire' message from linux 2.2?

http://www.eggheaven2000.com/detailed/212.html

Excuse me, but when smart-alec Redmond programmers think it's 'cute' to include a multi-megabyte Easter Egg in their code I believe people are being a bit generous with their use of my storage and processing.

Moreover, many of today's security flaws should never have happened in the first place (cough...Buffer overflows...cough...Race condition) and would have seen you fail a CompSci subject if submitted as such.

Nah, I think it was the Flight simulator easter egg.

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Absolutely. Any to anyone who cares to argue that proprietary companies are more strict in reviewing their own code, please explain the abundance of easter eggs in proprietary software.

like adding a flight simulator or car game ?

They actually have a quality control system

Someone wrote a flight simulator in Excel... ;)

But it is a flight simulator. There's probably an Emacs in there somewhere too -- but if you find it, the universe will implode.

I recently ran into a couple of users (well, women, none of them blonde) who asked me how to make name tags in Excel. I took me a while to figure out that they meant the sort of printed name tags that you put on when standing at a fair or convention. I never managed to understand exactly why they thought Excel would have been good for it...

> (IIRC, the original iMac moved certain things that used to load off disk at bootup to the ROMs...)
I'm pretty sure you've got that turned around. The iMac less on ROM (again, if I remember correctly; I could be wrong) than previous Macs. The Toolbox ROM was moved to a file called Mac OS ROM on the hard disk, in the System Folder.

> One very old Mac model even had a whole (albeit stripped-down) version of the Mac OS in its ROM, and could be booted from it, without a disk.

The Mac Classic. That ROM trick was a beautiful thing. Imagine if you could boot a modern PC into a basic GUI mode from the freaking ROM without any working boot disk or anything. That would be awesome.

1. Search the Deus Ex .ini files, especially user.ini, and find a key that is never mapped to anything. Remap all instances of it to "Talk."

2. Run DeusEx.exe with the command parameter -haxor. i.e., use the Run Program option in Windows to open it from its directory with the command: DeusEx.exe -haxor

3. When it is loaded, open the credits. A game does not need to be actually started at first.

4. On the credits screen, type thereisnospoon. Make sure that you get it right, as the only feedback is the sound of clicking keys. If you make a mistake, exit the screen and try again. If you get it right, you'll get the message "May Tricks Mode Enabled."

5. Load a game or play a new game. Everything will be made out of scrolling green numbers, like in The Matrix.

...described some features of Word as 'clunky.'"

I guess that's what happens when you bloat Office up with pinball games, flight simluators and 3D Doom clones.

...described some features of Word as 'clunky.'"

I guess that's what happens when you bloat Office up with pinball games, flight simluators and 3D Doom clones.

...described some features of Word as 'clunky.'"

I guess that's what happens when you bloat Office up with pinball games, flight simluators and 3D Doom clones.

Do you want to see the Pixar studios in glorious color and moving pictures? Pull out your Monsters, Inc. DVD and hit the following easter egg:

Paper airplane contest

Shows some good shots of the Pixar compound, their gigantic atrium, and the people in general. There are more, but I'll leave it to you to find them (or leave it to you to use google, more likely).

This means that except for public arcades the following are illegal:
4) Windows and most Linux distributions
5) MS Excel 97
6) MS Word 97
7) MS Excel 2000

While it will be very simple to come out with new Linux distro's that are game-free, MS will not be able to quickly patch all of the Easter Eggs in its products as likely most MS managers don't know where in the code the Easter eggs have been written. (of course we have to remember that in Greece, Easter Eggs appear a week later that every else).

This law could do wonders for OSS, maybe the community shouldn't fight it?

This means that except for public arcades the following are illegal:
4) Windows and most Linux distributions
5) MS Excel 97
6) MS Word 97
7) MS Excel 2000

While it will be very simple to come out with new Linux distro's that are game-free, MS will not be able to quickly patch all of the Easter Eggs in its products as likely most MS managers don't know where in the code the Easter eggs have been written. (of course we have to remember that in Greece, Easter Eggs appear a week later that every else).

This law could do wonders for OSS, maybe the community shouldn't fight it?

This means that except for public arcades the following are illegal:
4) Windows and most Linux distributions
5) MS Excel 97
6) MS Word 97
7) MS Excel 2000

While it will be very simple to come out with new Linux distro's that are game-free, MS will not be able to quickly patch all of the Easter Eggs in its products as likely most MS managers don't know where in the code the Easter eggs have been written. (of course we have to remember that in Greece, Easter Eggs appear a week later that every else).

This law could do wonders for OSS, maybe the community shouldn't fight it?

1. Eeggs.com is good site for Easter Eggs in general.

2. You'll find a few web sites with Easter Eggs here.