#Easter Egg Hunt
I am writing a book listing "Easter Eggs." I'd be sincerely grateful
for any contributions you might be able to make.
What are Easter Eggs? Easter Eggs are little undocumented "goodies"
that programmers hide in their programs. For example:
In a beta version of "HAL," a Lotus 1-2-3 add-in for the IBM, if you
typed in "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," the program would respond "I'm
sorry Dave, I can't do that."
In "Karateka," a martial arts game for the Apple, if you booted the
back side of the disk, the game would come up upside-down and mirror-image.
Likewise, in "Ultima V" for the Apple, yelling "flip-flop" would
invert the screen.
The Mac SE ROMs contain a digitized picture of the development team.
…and so on. Please send any other Easter Eggs of which you are
aware to me on Compuserve (76004,2654) or by mail to:
Easter Eggs
Cliff Dirgo
417 East County Road 66E
Fort Collins, CO 80524
Any system is fair game – IBM, Apple, Mac, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo,
whatever! Any neat undocumented feature is applicable. When in doubt,
send it off to me.
Please try to list the version of the software and what exactly it
takes to bring up the Easter Egg. If all you have is a rumor, though, that
will work, too.
Thank you! – Cliff