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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. Nice... by Tuxedo+Jack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But not as good as cracking open a Mac 128K and finding the signatures of the design team in raised lettering on it.

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    1. Re:Nice... by tim_mathews · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Check out Folklore. The story Signing Party is about the signatures. The last paragraph talks about how they slowly disappeared throughout the Mac versions.

  2. That's one big ass easter egg by wootest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    91MB. I wonder if the team had permission to get it in there or if it "mysteriously appeared" all of a sudden. ;)

  3. Lizard flag in early PPC machines by G4from128k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  4. Champagne in Dixie Cups by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.)

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  5. Bah by nmb3000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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 :)

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