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Apple Easter Egg

Posted by Zonk on from the arrr-pirates dept.

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."

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  1. Re:That's one big ass easter egg by grahams · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, the MOV was the easter egg. It was a hidden file on a System CD.

  2. Re:Nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a picture, from this site

  3. Original file may ONLY play on Macs... by Billy_D_Goat · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Don't mean to be a dick... by dcclark · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  5. Re:Nice... by lost_tribe_of_fort_w · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:POS: format isn't recognized. by No+Panic · · Score: 3, Informative

    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). ...

  7. Re:oh come on, be fair by SewersOfRivendell · · Score: 4, Informative
    Sony is also the inventor of the 3.5" floppy. Just thought I'd mention it.

    Hmm... I doubted this statement, but I was wrong:

    In 1980, the 3.5 inch floppy drive and diskette was introduced by Sony.