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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."
You spelled torrent wrong
No, the MOV was the easter egg. It was a hidden file on a System CD.
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...
Here is a picture, from this site
On windows, it isn't recognized by windows media player, media player classic, or even Apple's quicktime media player. It's the suck.
it wasnt an easter egg, it appeared on the QT Developer release CD, IIRC QTv1.5
There was an unknown error in the submission.
I think you're wrong.
I've tried quicktime, windows media player, divx player and media player classic...no dice.
7.5.5 runs on the same hardware that 7.1 does and is just as stable. It doesn't use much more memory and doesn't take up much more space. The ability to connect to the internet with an old Mac (which you can only do with 7.1 through hacks) makes the negligible amount of extra resources used worth it.
What ticks me off is that 7.6 is not available for free from Apple. It's the last version that ran on 030 Macs and is a big improvement over 7.5.5. Well, at least Apple gives away some of their old system software for free. I don't see old versions of OS/2 or Windows 3.1x online.
Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.
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.
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!
It was, among other things, hidden in an invisible folder deep inside the Installer disk, where nobody who wasn't looking for it would ever be looking.
In addition, the news is that it's available online (specifically as a Torrent) now, not that somebody found it for the first time. I remember reading this on the (long defunct) appleeastereggs.com site about 7 years ago.
Some of the early versions of the Mac Plus had this case as well. I guess they were trying to use up the old 128/512 cases. I don't know how rare the plus version is. Hopefully very rare as I have one collecting dust in the closet.
Had to add extensions to the filename to make it play in WinXP.
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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).
download the recompressed version, mpeg4, 10mb:
http://www.pitt.edu/~clh23/our_gang.mov
MiniDisc is very popular. Just not in the US. In Europe and Asia it's extremely strong.
Memory Stick hasn't been taken up by third parties, but I don't see users complaining. Seems relatively popular.
UMD is just one of those things that's a new technology that fills a niche. There isn't really a non-proprietary alternative. Whether it'll succeed or not has to do with whether it's actually necessary, not whether it's an example of Sony's NIH syndrome.
Sony is also the inventor of the 3.5" floppy. Just thought I'd mention it.
The first I remember works only on the Mac SE.
1. Push the interrupt button to enter the mini-debugger.
2. Type "g 41d89a"
3. Enjoy the slideshow pictures of the Mac SE team.
4. ???
5. Profit!
The easter egg you describe is described here in detail. (It works on any 1st generation PCI-PowerMac)
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. ;)
Hmm... I doubted this statement, but I was wrong:
In 1980, the 3.5 inch floppy drive and diskette was introduced by Sony.
I always thought he was missing too, but on closer inspection he's down in bottom left.
NewAge was the floppy disk controller. Prior to the AV Macs the floppy drive was pretty much bit-banged by the CPU, NewAge was Apple's first hardware floppy controller for thier propritary disk format. (The name of that format I have longe since forgotten.)
Interesting Factoid: NewAge had terrible noise problems in the PLL section, and there was talk about dropping floppies from the AV machines because newage was unreliable. I eventually found a set of filter components (Not reccomended by the chip manufacturer) which reliably worked - except if you used cheap crappy memory.
There were several major ASIC efforts in the AV
models, since each IO device had to opperate without as much CPU babysitting.
* MUNI - NuBus controller
* CIVIC - Graphics System (+Video Interface)
* SEBASTIAN - Graphics Formatter
* MCA - Memory Controller
* PSC - IO DMA interface
* NEWAGE - Floppy Controller
* VDC - Video-In formatter
* CURIO - Super IO (Serial, SCSI, Ethernet)
* CUDA - RTC & ADB
* ENDEVOR - Graphics PLL
The Video and sound IO were originally on a separate PCB both for noise isolation and to match the product design of the moment.
That design changed, and we were able to make the audio work on the main PCB by careful design. It was called Karma becasue the guy who was responsable called it that. Everything had a codename at Apple - I named the 660AV the "Tempest" because we had to have something to call it in the months before marketing came up with "660AV"