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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. Ohhhh =) by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pirate flag + bit torrent = hidden message?

    Tin foil hat goes ON

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  2. omg pirate flag... by omicronish · · Score: 5, Funny

    !! Notify the MPAA!

  3. Slow Speeds by rickst13 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it really right to submit a story to slashdot, just because you are getting slow speeds on a download?

  4. *Shudders* by CypherXero · · Score: 5, Funny

    Early 1990's....*shudders*

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

    Here is a picture, from this site

  6. Re:Don't mean to be a dick... by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it WAS noticed before.

    YEARS AGO..

    when 7.1 was fresh.

    you know, maybe someone thought that because such 'hidden' stuff in software is called easter eggs that it would be a proper thing to post during easter. well it's not.

    slashdot: add a "DUST FROM THE ARCHIVES" section to put this kind of stuff under...

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  7. 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.