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Apple Easter Egg
AnamanFan writes "Many years ago an easter egg was uncovered on the MacOS System 7.1 CD included with the Quadra 660av and 840av machines. A 91mb MOV file shows the Cyclone/Tempest team celebrating with a nice pirate flag in the background. Don't have your old System 7.1 CD from your Quadra? It's now available online, or if you'd like to you're welcome to use the Torrent."
But not as good as cracking open a Mac 128K and finding the signatures of the design team in raised lettering on it.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
I still have my 660av and 840av. :)
Pirate flag + bit torrent = hidden message?
Tin foil hat goes ON
Life is not for the lazy.
You know the PSP launch is a failure when you need year old news to fill the Slashdot front page.
91MB. I wonder if the team had permission to get it in there or if it "mysteriously appeared" all of a sudden. ;)
man, with this on slashdot, there will be hundreds of seeds. It is 52 Mb.
I've never heard of it before, but I'm surprised it took so long to find such a large file...
Is this really new?
You spelled torrent wrong
!! Notify the MPAA!
There are some days I wished these damned machines were never invented.
PS, the video is cool, and the recompressed version is most welcome!
Is it really right to submit a story to slashdot, just because you are getting slow speeds on a download?
my old 7500 was only 500 MB, so im guessing the HD they shipped was 250 MB? whatever the size was, if they had a easter egg that was that large that was irresponsible and flagrant abuse and waste of their customers hardware resources and dollars
My favorite was a real-time rendered flag with a lizard that was shown against the backdrop of the Apple campus. It came on the Powermac 8500 and OS 7.5, IIRC. It was meant to be a fun little demo of the machine's power. The mouse location controlled the angle and strength of the wind and the flag would flutter and move appropriately. If you were aggressive enough with changing the direction of the wind, the flag would break off the pole and flutter to the ground.
The earliest Mac easter egg that I remember was one that got the dog-cow to say Moof on the Page Setup dialogs circa early system 7 and a hidden break-out game that also dates from the early system 7 era.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
It is a hidden file, sure, it doesn't involve a weird random keystroke or a full version of a flight sim, but it's still a hidden "treat."
PS, i think this video is kinda lame. The coolest thing is maybe seeing the awesome fashion sense of those days.
It's kind of cool seeing how even during some of the dark days under shitty management, creative people were doing cool things at Apple, and pretty much keeping it alive.
I do video on the Mac, and I've done it, off and on, since 1992. The AV models were a big step forward in terms of making the technology available at a cheap price. (I still have a Nubus TruVista+ card that I can't bear to part with because it cost so much back in the day. Probably worthless now.)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Early 1990's....*shudders*
Poor Bram, a direct link to a torrent is posted to the front page of Slashdot right after a new version of BitTorrent is released.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
"Don't have your old System 7.1 CD from your Quadra? It's now available online, or if you'd like to you're welcome to use the Torrent." Cool, where is the System 7.1 CD then? :)
It IS the MPAA!
You had both? Nice. I had a 660AV. It packed a whopping 25Mhz processor (840AV was 33Mhz I believe). At the time- it was the coolest thing ever- with reasonable VR capabilities- built in modem- and a Video input. In college- it was great cause it was nearly the only computer that had the video in. I had my Ninento (not even Nintendo 64) and a VCR (no DVD) so I could use it as a TV as well- saved alot of room. I bought the overclocking set but never was able to get the machine to run stable with it. Again- Apple was the first to market with an idea- but never fully capitalized on it.
Idiots! Read the submission! It says "Many years ago, the egg was uncovered." Meaning it's NOT NEW. The availability of this video is what is new.
Dumbshits...
Maybe it has to do with tomorrow being Easter?
While knowledge of the easter egg has been around for a while, it was never made widely available. There are older websites documenting where and how to get to these types of things. However, the Quadra AV machines were relatively unpopular and by the time the internet took off as a viable mainstream way of sharing, most Mac users had lost or forgotten their older machines. That seems to me to make it news worthy. This is the first time everyone had a chance to see it. Plus it has a pirate flag and the team, which makes it a cool piece of Apple history!
Anyone have the hidden easter egg file of the QuickTime guys photos morphing to "Black or White"? I remember a friend of mine (who worked on Quicktime back in the late '80s) showed this to me as a hidden easter egg.
The PC Weenies: 11 Years of Online Tech 'Too
its a Sony, what did you expect ?
BetaMax
MiniDisc
Memory Stick
UMD
you would think they would of got the hint by now
840AV had a 40MHz 68040 and a 66MHz AT+T 3210 DSP.
If this Easter Egg was discovered so many years ago, then how come the news is only appearing on Slashdot now?
You must be new here.
If this Easter Egg was discovered so many years ago, then how come the news is only appearing on Slashdot now?
Maybe because there was no Slashdot in 1993?
I think that if you read the story post again you'll get some interesting information.
.mov file into less than an 80th of a byte. I would like to fit my entire music collection on my Atari 800, or my TI-82 graphing calculator.
You say 91 Mb, the GP says 91 MB, but the story says 91 mb. I am very interested in the compression algorithm that fits any
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
So the BitTorrent is..uh...pirating a pirate flag movie?
That's almost as bad as Pirates_of_the_Carribean.torrent.
I love the guy who has the Velcro shoes. So much more convenient than laces, I wonder why they're not popular anymore.
As nice as that is, that's not what the title of the link says.
Although Macintosh System 6.0.x, System 7.0.1, and System 7.5.3 are both available for download for free from Apple (in "convenient" floppy-disk-sized pieces for those systems that have no CD-drive), System 7.1 remains unavailable (except via eBay, of course) due to, I believe, some liscencing issues with PowerTalk, or something. It's vaguely rediculous that software that is useful only for computers that are basically free/garbage at this point should still be subject to that kind of restriction when the newer 7.5.3 isn't.
There's a high probability that issues like that in Apple's history is what leads their management to either aquire technologies outright (like NeXT) or develop an equivilant in-house (like Dashboard instead of Confabulator) instead of liscencing them (like Be wanted Apple to do with BeOS.)
It means that the only force to consult in the future when deciding what happens to a given bit of code is Apple itself. MUCH simpler.
What is the difference between a small revolutionary change and a large evolutionary change?
On windows, it isn't recognized by windows media player, media player classic, or even Apple's quicktime media player. It's the suck.
My 660 is a 'Centris' model, which IIRC meant it was only 20Mhz from the factory instead of 25Mhz. This too was easily fixed, in fact I believe mine has a 33Mhz clock in it.
My 840av currently stands as a dedicated webcam.
Danamania in 3... 2... 1...
I think you're wrong.
I still like the egg on the old Apple II (I forget which kind) that played back the devteam saying "Apple II".
If while booting the computer you press the NMI button (the little button on the front that isn't the reset or the power button), instead of the standard sad mac sound, you get a sampled screeching breaks and car crashing sound!
I've tried quicktime, windows media player, divx player and media player classic...no dice.
Wasn't that "modem" a geoport? Ack!
I wonder when LK will wade in to tell us what he thinks about Geoports. =)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I'm having the same problem.
It compresses both frequency and time, so you hear it all at once in a one second burst.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
The file was probably made using QT 1 or 2. It uses the old Video compression. I'm not sure what effect this would have on other platforms. Does the Window QT API support the Video compression? I have a Mac running X and it plays fine in the most recent version of QT player.
My Centris 660AV is still in my parents house. I should check on it tommorrow on Easter. I had an external 1 Gig SCSI drive. Today- I carry a 1 Gig USB key fob. Makes me wonder if in ten to fifteen years if we will all be carrying around terabyte usb sticks.
I mean you spend 10 minutes downloading the dam thing via bittorrent and it won't play in any media player. WTF? That and the quicktime version seems to have flaky audio. Great find!
btw the file is called Our Gang! with no file extension.
Now you know how mac users feel when we can't play WMV 9 files that use some new windows only codec.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
... should totally be "I work for the Department of Redundancy Dept. is where I work."
I noticed some people complaining about being unable to play the bittorrent original movie file. I suspect this is because of the age of the file. It was probably made using QT 1 or 2 and is in the ancient "Video" compression. Also, the file uses the classic mac resource identifiers and lacks a file extension. Anyone having trouble might try adding .MOV to the end of the Our Gang! file. The file DOES work on Macs though using QT.
I'm sorry -- it's Saturday night. We're bored. The answer then is: NO
14" AV monitor, 32MB RAM, 230MB HD, 2xCDROM, Geoport Modem, KBD, Mouse
www.eeggs.com seems to be a good site for more easter eggs, not only computer related ones.
:-p
In case you're into that sort of thing.
They even have RSS feeds for daily updates.
rofl, who subscribes to those?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Butt_pirates_of_the_pound_you_in_the_ass_prison.to rrent.
This post has to be good for at least three pieces of flair considering all the underscores I had to type.
>> If this Easter Egg was discovered so many years ago, then how come the news is only appearing on Slashdot now?
Don't worry, It'll get posted twice to make up for the delay...
http://request-header.info
I believe it was the fastest desktop on the planet at the time. Mine only died a year ago.
I was conned by an old man in a cloak. It turns out those *were* the droids I was looking for.
yeah metric can be difficult to new-commers.....
quicktime alternative is not working either
If you can find the easter egg in Delphi 7, I'm the guy holding the giant plastic rat.
"Maybe it has to do with tomorrow being Easter?"
This.
END
T-He.
Had to add extensions to the filename to make it play in WinXP.
...
Added ".mp4" to the filename, and it plays in WMP, but sound was missing.
Added ".mov" to the filename, and it plays OK in Quicktime (and sound works).
On a somewhat unrelated note, I remember a Packard Bell 486 I got around 1994 or so. This was supposed to be a multimedia PC, and Packard Bell decided Windows 3.1 wasn't flashy enough. So they had their own "Navigator" GUI that ran on top of Windows 3.1 that automatically started whenever the computer started up. And part of Navigator was this amusing and very cheesy video of a mime showing you how to use the computer. The video was over 40MB (if I remember right), and the computer had a 420MB harddrive, so this was a huge waste of space. Not to mention all the other space that the Navigator program took up. So after playing around with it for a bit, it got deleted.
If anyone has that video though, I would love to see it again. It's probably even funnier now than it was then.
Anyhoo the guy was going to get sacked for putting the easter egg in the program but when sales took off all was forgiven....
Around the year 2000, I'd been walking home from school one day and some guy had a 660AV on his doorstep so I rang his bell and he gave it to me. He said it was broken but all it needed was a battery. I played around with it, oooh ahhh retro mac with video, I said. Ultimately, it left my hands along with a IIci, a IIfx, a 610, and a couple 6100s for a couple cases of beer.
download the recompressed version, mpeg4, 10mb:
http://www.pitt.edu/~clh23/our_gang.mov
ooh I remember the System 7 days well.. dragging the text clipping "secret about box" to the desktop activated a hidden brickout game, or an interactive flag blowing in the wind in front of the Cupertino HQ..
are there any such hidden eggs in OS X?
The Centris 660AV had two major differences from the Quadra 660AV. The Centris (budget 68040 machines) were rolled into the Quadra nameplate in October, 1993.
-Tray loading, rather than caddy loading 2X CD-ROM drive.
-The first manual-inject floppies from Apple.
The Centris and Quadra 660av both had a 25MHz 68040 on a 32-bit bus and a 55MHz AT&T 3210 DSP.
The "av" machines introduced some Apple-first and Apple only features, including:
-Directional microphone with speech recognition (This was a pain in the ass to demo in the student unions I was charged with!)
-Compsite video input and output; direct to hard disk recording from any analog or s-video source.
-Direct PowerPC upgradability via a logic board swap - rather than the PDS slot upgrade available for previous Quadra/Centris 6xx/700/9xx machines.
The serial ports did indeed get strange at overclocking frequencies above 48MHz - due to the logic board's reliance on a half-multiple of the CPU speed, the serial controllers would die pretty ealy on.
The Quadra 800 (33MHz 68040) was actually more overclockable than the 840av in terms of percentage, but the 840 was, and remains, the fastest 68040 Apple machine ever, coming as it did at the sunset of the 68000 series. The PowerPC 6100, 7100, and 8100 were released March 14, 1994 and even the $2000.00 6100/60 (60 MHz PowerPC 601) easily eclipsed even the 840av in raw computational performance.
not torent.
geeze, hit that 'r' another time, please?
or edit!
Check journal for info on Anti-TextBook, an idea by me.
Like all Quadras, the AV's also had onboard ethernet.
The text-to-speech and voice recognition were also pretty impressive for 1992, they made good use of the AT&T DSP that was soldered to the mobo.
My only complaint about the 660av and 840av was the lack of realtime video compression, you could capture video but you either needed a load of ram or a load of disk space as compression was done after capture. Thankfully Radius made a nice add-on board that did realtime MJPEG compression making the AV macs some very nice editing machines if you added VideoFusion, Avid VideoShop, or Adobe Premiere.
C'mon, Apple has got to have something better than this "easter egg". It's nothing compared to previous Excel eggs.
:)
Say what you will about Microsoft, but they (did) have some cool people working on Office
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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The early 1990s only sucked if you were forced to use a 486 with a 14" VGA monitor.
1992 was a great year for computing!
Apple's Quadra 840av was a multimedia powerhouse, Silicon Graphics had both the Indigo2 and Onyx for those who needed more power, Adobe Photoshop 2.0 and 2.5 with the new one-pass color flatbed scanners made color desktop publishing a lot easier and a lot cheaper. You could even buy a good graphics card and 20" monitor bundle for less than $2500! Almost half of what that would have cost just 2 years earlier!!
1992 rocked, for me at least.
IIRC, ISO 8601 allows a whole bunch of optional syntax that can confuse things. Also, the text of ISO 8601 isn't freely available. Why not campaign for RFC 3339 full-date format dates instead?
Very true, I hardly consider something an easter egg if it's as easy as pressing down on the remote a couple times and...ooh looky there I guess I can select the person's eyeball...ooh a hidden menu? If you remember those old easter eggs in old versions of excel (where you could fly around), the way to get to those easter eggs wasn't very easy and IMO would be basically impossible to discover without looking it up on the web. So I can't say that they've made this specific egg way too hard to find.
After all, why wave around a pirate flag when you do not support piracy?
Arrrhhhh, pirates of ye world, unite, Apple be hoisting the pirate colors. Party at One Infinte Loop, Captain Steve is buying the rum! Thar be booty fer all!
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
I know alot of people found the Geoports to be total nightmares. I believe they ended up discovering that the units had bad internal grounding. I must have had one of the few good ones. My biggest disappointment was that they discontinued support for them when 14.4K was dying off. I never heard finally whether a lack of horsepower in the DSP was the reason for the lack of 28.8K or not. Pity, as that was supposed to be the advantage of a software modem. When a new standard arrives, you simply upgrade the software.
I think the point here is to encourage dialogue about Easter Eggs, not bash Slashdot. Anyone got any cool MacOS X Easter Eggs???
This is the MPAA. We have come to know that you are sharing the file OurGang.zip which is a digital version of this . We advice you to stop sharing the movie immediately and delete all other movies in your computer. We are going to sue you ass off for this till you end up liquidating all your assets. We are sending a subponea your way!
Thanks,
Your friendly MPAA agent.
P.S: How did you manage to compress the movie to such a small size? If you let us know who the author of the compression program (or algorithm) is, we would make a deal with you to sue you just to the level of you selling your car and sue the other guy ass off.
I'd have taken that trade. I was never fond of the 6100, or the G3 machines. I used to work at this small town newspaper that was mostly a Mac shop. There were only four reporters, but we all had these SEs and SE/30s for typing stories using WriteNow!. Sold little machines. I clocked an SE using the Distributed.net client and it cranked out keys at 800 keys/sec. The fastest machine they had at the time was one of the first gen G3 machine that hit around 800,000 keys/sec. But they all interoperated nicely via the ghettofabulous localtalk.
I get a OurGang! file, and it doesn't play. Tried renaming the file to ourgang.mov, and it still didn't work.
And when he had opened the fifth seal, i saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the next guy, but i just remebered how much more lopsided the numbers were in 1995-2000 when linux was the founder of the majority.
Was the computer called Legend 2000?
My WMP for OS X plays pretty much every WMP9 file I can find... And in the rare case that it doesn't, you can always try VLC.
thanks! the renaming trick didnt work for me.
HD Trailers
I usually find that I try VLC first and end up having to resort to the crapastic WMP 9 for OS X when it does not play in the former. i have found some files that refuse to play in both however.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Yeah, and apparently, all the porn sites now use the newest version of WMV, so half my bittorrent downloads end up being worthless. *ugh* :D
Blake
7.5.5 runs on the same hardware that 7.1 does and is just as stable.
Stability claims I'll leave up to others, but 7.1 is faster and much smaller. If not in the actual install, at least in the installer. I don't remember the exact number, but 7.1 comes on about 6 or 7 discs. 7.5.3 comes as 30+ floppies (or on CD.) On top of that, if you download it from Apple's site, the 30+ files form a single disc image. Not very usable if you were handed an old Mac and don't have another machine to do the install from.
The ability to connect to the internet with an old Mac (which you can only do with 7.1 through hacks)
Hacks? When my old Mac died a few months back and I was waiting for my new one, I used a System 7.1 machine and don't recall ever having to do any kind of hacks to get it online.
-gko
Voided your warrenty on that box real quick, didn't you.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
David K.Every had the best collection, hands down.
r -e ggs-14.hqx
/ /w ww.spies.com/~greg/eastereggs.html
/ /w ww.spies.com/~greg/a12nonparade.html
;-)
http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/index.html
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/info-mac/info/apple-easte
There is a Apple Easter Eggs 1.5 and I believe a 1.6 version but I can't find it right now.
A Blue Meanie's Story:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040212041626/http:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040212093750/http:
Dig around and append the links in Greg's story on the Wayback Machine and you'll get the whole story.
He knows where all the bodies are buried.
System 7.5's Breakout game was one of the best.
http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/Breakout.html
MacsBug has a lot of secret stuff still.
CanOpener v4.0
http://www.abbottsystems.com/co.html
~hylas
Make that 797 when I'm done - I'll let this run for a day or two. ;)
I still have a clone (which I still use regularly), an 840AV, and another model that's sitting behind my desk. I think the 840AV purchase was about the time that Apple started losing favor with me. I know it had some cool features, but for the price (and all the hype we heard from local reps), I was disappointed with the overall performance. I bought the clone after that because it was available at a good price (compared to Apple's prices). So far, that has been my last Apple purchase- afterward, I began acquainting myself with PCs so I could run Linux.
thanks man!
There was a recent entry on The Unofficial Apple Weblog asking about this. So far no eggs posted by anyone, at least none in the OS itself. Those noted are either for specific apps, or stuff carried over from OSX's UNIX roots (LOTR dates in the calendar files, games in emacs.)
I recall reading somewhere that Easter Eggs in the Mac OS were so prevalent at one time that Apple actually had a group overseeing them! But at some point (I'm guessing Jobs' return,) a no-egg policy began.
Even the trusty old, option-selecting "About Finder" egg is gone.
-gko
...but the harddrive is hosed and don't have any boot discs, you can still start up the machine. Hold down command-option-x-o after you power it up.
There was enough leftover space in the ROMs that they put a System(6) Folder in there, accessed by the above key combination.
The StyleWriter II printer also has names inside the case. I stumbled upon those when repairing one once. Don't know if any other hardware has such.
How is this news people!? Half the Apple news items that are posted are compleatly useless... if theres no apple news dont make bullshit into news!
I know I can't really complain given my GP comment, but at least I recognised that what I said made me sound like a twat.
I've tried Quicktime, WMP10, VLC and Real - none of them can play this even after renaming to different extensions. 50 Karma points to the first person who figures out how to play it :-)
I know a guy who spent big money (coughcough**LK) on an ISDN that hooked up thru the Geoport. Boy was he pissed when Apple dropped it. He still hates Apple.
(Hey, LK, if you read this, I tease because I love. Just not in that way*. =)
*Not suggesting that's how you like it either. Not that there's anything wrong with it.)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
You could take off the side panel on a Sun 386i and find signatures from the design team all over it.
I think their next product should be called the iPatch. Available in white or ship-grade aluminium. After all, two eyes are superfluous.
Note: Parrot available separately. Do not taunt iPatch.
... and then they built the supercollider.
... and thanks!
...afterward, I began acquainting myself with PCs so I could run Linux.
Rather than running linux on the machines you already had?
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
hey guys! I made a screenshot of it. http://www.albert-feller.de/temp/screenshot_of_Our _Gang.png
Yeah, but you'd think that at least Quicktime would be able to play it, considering it *is* a Quicktime movie...
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Please get over it.
They are a corporation with corporation lawyers running their corporation money mongering and brainwashing schemes.
They are shameless in their marketting, ruthless, and their products are just rerolled FREE BSD.
Big deal I say.
They are just as bad a Microsuck
Stupid video.
No wonder Apple almost folded around this time.
Your text is neither new nor yours in any sense of the word.s itting+here+at+my+freelance+gig%22&btnG=Google-Suc he&meta=/
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%22I've+been+
And it is old too.
http://www.kottke.org/98/11/my-mac-sucks/
mfg. Julian
Hi:
I had a Mac SE--and the motherboard is still on the wall as a piece of art.
That motherboard had a photo built into the ROM. Hit the interrupt button on the programmer's switch brought up a prompt.
You typed in an alpha numeric string like G 41D89A and blammo, afew scanned-in photos of the entire Mac Plus crew right there on you screen in glorious one bit black and white.
Another interrupt and G Finder restarted the finder. Or Multi-finder. (God, I'm old.)
Last thing, I took some snaps of that motherboard and it's appearing as background art on my boss's website. Yep, twenty years later and my old SE lives on. The case is a buddy's fishtank now.
can anyhone translate what they're geeking out about when showing off the board? there's some gushing about components on both sides of the board, which is understandably new back then, but then they go on about "new age" - is that the ROM? i thought the new age macs were much more recent than the quadras, more in the PPC realm?
and civic-1?
PS1?
and the leftover port for "when all our video-in stuff was out on separate boards" did they ship with that still on? did they call it karma?
anyhow, i find it interesting that, despite the fact that they could probably have all been fired for being part of the egg, or at least whoever put the 91 meg video on the master could have been sacked, they were still a little coy about putting things on the video itself. the sound cuts out as they're talking, i presume about something on the board that they shouldn't have said, and there's one guy on the team wearing a badge he didn't want on camera, "what do you mean we can't show that? what are they going to do"
"to you?"
interesting glimpse into those days. i used to fight to get one of the quadras in the labs at school. the alternative was a centris.
- Entertaining Bits from the Ancient Kernel Tree
i have a lot of macs at home. a LOT. but i don't have a mac classic. color classic, 512k, SE, SE/30... yes. but not a classic. or a 128... but that's another rant.
a chine_the_january_1991.html for more.
apparently the classic had an undocumented feature in the ROM that allowed it to boot without a floppy. if one held down Command + Option + X + O whilst turning on the computer, it would boot into a very limited system 6.0.3 shoehorned into the ROM.
considering how much room this took up in the precious ROM, and how bloody useful it would be to boot without spinning media, it's amazing it was hidden away.
http://www.savetz.com/ku/ku/byard_system_in_the_m
- Entertaining Bits from the Ancient Kernel Tree
Here is a magic way to clear disk space on any XT class machine.
do the following
debug
g=c800:5
just select most any option like change the HD interleave or low level format = instant drive space.
Fuck you and the mods. He summed this story up perfectly.
The 660s and 840s had different PPLs for the main CPU, In the lab, we got a 660 to run to 60MHz, the 840 (Bigger board, longer traces) ran to 45MHz.
I still have the only 40 Mhz 660AV.
with PearPC.
My boss was one of the guys who worked on the Commodore 128 - there's a key sequence you can press (I don't recall what it is off the top of my head - I'm sure a quick googling will turn it up) that will bring up all the engineers names, and an anti-war message. I never had a 128, but I found someone on IRC a couple years back that had one right next to him. I googled up the key sequence, and relayed it back to him, and he read back everything it said to me. It was pretty neat that I work in a pretty small (under 20 employees) company, and my bosses name pops up on a C128.
You make my (Easter) day!
Not that I can prove this easily but I posted the comment on Folklore.org (in the Pirate Flag story) where I mentionned the flag found in the 660av/840av movie easter egg. The guy that did make the movie available found about it while reading my comment.
Now I'm happy to find that the movie is at last available on the net and that there is a Slashdot thread about it!!
In the days my friend had a brand new Centris 660av I found about the trick in a magazine.
So yes info has been published before, even on the web, but it's the first time the movie is downloadable by the public.
At the time I only watched the movie once or twice because you had to copy the preference folder to the hd to be able to make visible the movie file inside, and that took most of the remaining space on the 230megs HD.
The original file would need to be "Flatten" to play on windows since it is an old Quicktime 2 file that was not saved in the cross-platform format. These kind of problem are long gone since Quicktime now save every file as cross-platform by default.
Antoine
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Metroid Cubed ideator
http://pages.infinit.net/voxel/
"Not that I'm going to be able to prove this easily, but I came up with the invocation mechanism, and wrote the patch to the Drag Manager that enabled the "secret about box" mechanism. We had the breakout game ready to go, but nobody could come up with a good way to invoke it. We had a number of code reviews until everyone was satisified it wouldn't break anything. Fun times...
:-)"
;-)
That was my first significant addition to the OS.
Greg, is that you?
If you are Greg, please put your "spies" info on folklore with the "not a parade" stuff and tell us all the gory details of MacsBug.
Tell us why "Math is Hard" - so funny.
If you're not Greg, you are at least BLUE - spill the beans Buddy
We need an easteregg section.
Personally, I want to know about the emulation egg(?) that is so spooky in 7.5.5 (nuKernal - Quadra-Centris/68k).
(I found it and it's weird)
Star Trek?
Bodies please.
http://www.folklore.org/index.py
~hylas
I was aware of a distro called PPC Linux, but those I was working with at the time were using Redhat. Not only that, but I didn't want to ditch all my software. I suppose I could have dual-booted, but it's not an option I'd considered at the time.
And you'd think all WMV files would play in Windows Media Player, since they are Windows Media files....
I'll have a think about it.
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Wow,
That file was from right around when I started doing compression, and it's an amazing testament to how much things have gotten better.
Video is Apple Video, codenamed "Road Pizza" pre-Cinepak. No data rate control. 5-bit per channel RGB.
Audio is uncompressed 8-bit. Pre IMA, and well pre MP3 for computer playback. Computers of that era weren't fast enough play back MP3 in real-time, let alone with video along with it!
File totals 300 KBytes/Sec, or 2400 Kbps. One could easily provide better quality at 100 Kbps today. 24x improvement in a little over a decade - not Moore's Law, but not bad!
My video compression blog
It was Easter years ago too, an old video from the 1990's is not news.
Not really a secret either, but:
* Cranberries video, on the Mac OS 7.6 CD
* Barenaked Ladies video on the Mac OS 8.5 CD
* Static X "Push It" video on the 9.x CD
I don't remember if they changed between 8.0 -> 8.1 (likewise with 9.x) but the videos are usually found in the Quicktime folder as a way to showcase the Quicktime software.
This bit of news is from System *7.1*. Way more than a year ago....
Download the Easter Egg:
:)
Torrent of original (53 meg in Quicktime) (torrent fixed, again, now zipped)
Recompressed version (10.3 meg in Quicktime MPEG4)
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In FA
Mine version is near lossless with 3ivx+purevoice, 28.9 mb.
This thing is plain fun to watch and also you can see what compression levels are up since that time.
Not to be completely outdone, I launched a few eggs myself this past week: http://www.newpath4.com/formulaeperpetual_perpetua ltimeperpetualspaceperpetualpowerperpetualmomentum perpetualmotion_3plus4equals5.gif or http://tinyurl.com/4sjmu . Then I posted 2 more eggs: http://tinyurl.com/44h5p and http://tinyurl.com/4faag . Point of fact, I've been LAYING EGGS SO LONG I FEEL LIKE THE GHOST OF GIANT CHICKEN. All these links and more are on my website. Where we tackle any deals. hehehehehe
You mean 1/80th of a bit. Lower case is bit, upper case is byte. It's not that hard.
Yeah, I second that.
As a Mac user, I get incredibly frustrated after driving to Starbucks in my Volkswagen and being unable to show my friends from graphic design school the new Postal Service music video.
No, 1/80th of a byte.
91 millibits is less than 1/10th bit, thus less than 1/80th byte.
The trick is to understand the math too, not just the difference in case.
This hard disk utility was in the HD controller ROM, with different values for different manufacturers following the colon. To call it and easter egg is a really big stretch.
It gave you no more "instant drive space" than an unconditional format.
"You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs"
Yes it will play on macs, but not if you just add an extension to the decompressed file. The Metadata is somehow not where it should be. If however you decompress the file using Stuffit-Expander 9 you will get the correct resource-fork an you will have a pirate-flag-icon that yopu can simply double click.
Apple Easter Egg? Which is it, an apple or an egg? Or did they crossbreed apples with fish to lay eggs?
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RTFA? Hell, I don't even read the