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Apple Easter Egg 327

Posted by Zonk 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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  • Nice... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Tuxedo Jack ( 648130 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:01PM (#12057568) Homepage
    But not as good as cracking open a Mac 128K and finding the signatures of the design team in raised lettering on it.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:02PM (#12057572)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Slow news day? (Score:4, Funny)

    by DraconPern ( 521756 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:02PM (#12057573) Homepage
    You know the PSP launch is a failure when you need year old news to fill the Slashdot front page.

  • That's one big ass easter egg (Score:3, Interesting)

    by wootest ( 694923 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:02PM (#12057576)
    91MB. I wonder if the team had permission to get it in there or if it "mysteriously appeared" all of a sudden. ;)

  • seeders! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Moester ( 794964 )
    man, with this on slashdot, there will be hundreds of seeds. It is 52 Mb.

  • omg pirate flag... (Score:5, Funny)

    by omicronish ( 750174 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:07PM (#12057603)
    !! Notify the MPAA!

  • GANGBANG! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    1 chick, 9 guys?

    There are some days I wished these damned machines were never invented.

  • Don't mean to be a dick... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Lisandro ( 799651 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:08PM (#12057607)
    ... because i usually love this stuff, but how exactly does a 91MB video file on an CD counts as "easter egg"? And how came no one noticed it before - sheeze, it cant't be that easy to miss.

    PS, the video is cool, and the recompressed version is most welcome!

  • Slow Speeds (Score:5, Funny)

    by rickst13 ( 723165 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:11PM (#12057620)
    Is it really right to submit a story to slashdot, just because you are getting slow speeds on a download?

  • Lizard flag in early PPC machines (Score:5, Interesting)

    by G4from128k ( 686170 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:12PM (#12057626)
    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.

  • Champagne in Dixie Cups (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Ohreally_factor ( 593551 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:14PM (#12057640) Journal
    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.)

  • *Shudders* (Score:5, Funny)

    by CypherXero ( 798440 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:15PM (#12057647) Homepage
    Early 1990's....*shudders*
    • The early 1990s only sucked if you were forced to use a 486 with a 14" VGA monitor.

      1992 was a great year for computing!
      Apple's Quadra 840av was a multimedia powerhouse, Silicon Graphics had both the Indigo2 and Onyx for those who needed more power, Adobe Photoshop 2.0 and 2.5 with the new one-pass color flatbed scanners made color desktop publishing a lot easier and a lot cheaper. You could even buy a good graphics card and 20" monitor bundle for less than $2500! Almost half of what that would have cost ju

  • System 7.1 cd?? (Score:4, Funny)

    by lilricky ( 632829 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:18PM (#12057663)
    "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." Cool, where is the System 7.1 CD then? :)

  • RTFA (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    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...
  • Anyone have the hidden easter egg file of the QuickTime guys photos morphing to "Black or White"? I remember a friend of mine (who worked on Quicktime back in the late '80s) showed this to me as a hidden easter egg.

  • So the BitTorrent is..uh...pirating a pirate flag movie?

    That's almost as bad as Pirates_of_the_Carribean.torrent.

  • Velcro! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Wysz ( 835578 ) <wysz@mac.com> on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:41PM (#12057789) Homepage
    I love the guy who has the Velcro shoes. So much more convenient than laces, I wonder why they're not popular anymore.

    • Re:Velcro! (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Thing 1 ( 178996 )
      At first I read this as "Velcro soles" and thought, "Cool! He can walk on carpeted ceilings!"

      Me, I have shoes (Reebok) that have both laces and velcro. Very nice, because you tie the laces, then strap them down with the velcro so they don't come untied.

  • I was rather excited about the Macintosh System 7.1 CD finally becoming available online, and similarly disappointed that the only bit now available is the easter-egg movie.

    As nice as that is, that's not what the title of the link says.

    Although Macintosh System 6.0.x [apple.com], System 7.0.1 [apple.com], and System 7.5.3 [apple.com] are both available for download for free from Apple (in "convenient" floppy-disk-sized pieces for those systems that have no CD-drive), System 7.1 remains unavailable (except via eBay, of course) due to, I believe, some liscencing issues with PowerTalk, or something. It's vaguely rediculous that software that is useful only for computers that are basically free/garbage at this point should still be subject to that kind of restriction when the newer 7.5.3 isn't.

    There's a high probability that issues like that in Apple's history is what leads their management to either aquire technologies outright (like NeXT) or develop an equivilant in-house (like Dashboard instead of Confabulator) instead of liscencing them (like Be wanted Apple to do with BeOS.)

    It means that the only force to consult in the future when deciding what happens to a given bit of code is Apple itself. MUCH simpler.

    • It's vaguely rediculous that software that is useful only for computers that are basically free/garbage at this point should still be subject to that kind of restriction when the newer 7.5.3 isn't.

      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 tic

      • yeah but I hear that the linux people are ging out 2.2 for free these days.
      • Remember all Mac's had some version of a Apple OS installed when they were purchased. PC's on the other hand could have DOS, DOS and Windows, OS/2, and other OSes installed instead.

        Apple wouldn't lose money posting those images because, to use them, you had to buy their hardware. On the other hand for OS/2, Windows and DOS you usually didn't have to buy anything else from Microsoft or IBM (and you could of bought the system with no OS).
    • Just one little correction, it is konfabulator, http://www.konfabulator.com/

      And I think it will still be better then Dashboard. :)

      -S

  • POS: format isn't recognized. (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    On windows, it isn't recognized by windows media player, media player classic, or even Apple's quicktime media player. It's the suck.

  • Apple II egg (Score:2, Interesting)

    by MiKM ( 752717 )
    I still like the egg on the old Apple II (I forget which kind) that played back the devteam saying "Apple II".
    • I believe that was the Apple IIGS. Here's how to do it:

      1. Remove all disks from the drives
      2. Restart the computer
      3. When you see the Open-Apple move back and forth, Press Control-OpenApple-Option-N
      4. Sit back and enjoy!

  • Original file may ONLY play on Macs... (Score:5, Informative)

    by Billy_D_Goat ( 589293 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @11:16PM (#12057967)
    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.

  • Do you want MORE? (Score:3, Informative)

    by Jugalator ( 259273 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @11:19PM (#12057978) Journal
    www.eeggs.com seems to be a good site for more easter eggs, not only computer related ones.
    In case you're into that sort of thing.

    They even have RSS feeds for daily updates.
    rofl, who subscribes to those? :-p

  • My only easter egg (Score:5, Funny)

    by fm6 ( 162816 ) on Saturday March 26, 2005 @11:39PM (#12058048) Homepage Journal
    If you can find the easter egg in Delphi 7, I'm the guy holding the giant plastic rat.
    • It's late and I can't figure out how 3 mods found a Delphi comment so funny. I can't even imagine 3 mods even knowing what Delphi is. So, where's the egg? I happen to have D7 on my machine right now. Please say that the easter egg has something to do with some way to completely shut off that damn Delphi Direct thing!!!

      • Re:My only easter egg (Score:3, Interesting)

        by fm6 ( 162816 )
        I left Borland a couple years ago, and anything relating to the company is subject to traumatic amnesia. So I can't tell your how to shut off Delphi Direct. Or find the Easter Egg. But both are possible. GIYF.

        You're right, it is suprising that 3 people even know what Delphi is. But then Delphi has always had the pervase, but poorly publicized following in the developer community.

  • Bah (Score:4, Interesting)

    by nmb3000 ( 741169 ) on Sunday March 27, 2005 @12:29AM (#12058232) Journal
    C'mon, Apple has got to have something better than this "easter egg". It's nothing compared to previous Excel eggs [j-walk.com].

    Say what you will about Microsoft, but they (did) have some cool people working on Office :)
  • After all, why wave around a pirate flag when you do not support piracy?

    Arrrhhhh, pirates of ye world, unite, Apple be hoisting the pirate colors. Party at One Infinte Loop, Captain Steve is buying the rum! Thar be booty fer all!

  • The point here... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by eltirado ( 589195 )
    I think the point here is to encourage dialogue about Easter Eggs, not bash Slashdot. Anyone got any cool MacOS X Easter Eggs???

  • Math is Hard (Score:2, Informative)

    by not_hylas( ) ( 703994 )
    David K.Every had the best collection, hands down.

    http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/index.html

    ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/info-mac/info/apple-easte r -e ggs-14.hqx

    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:/ /w ww.spies.com/~greg/eastereggs.html

    http://web.archive.org/web/20040212093750/http:/ /w ww.spies.com/~greg/a12nonparade.html

    Dig around and append the links in Greg's story on the Wayback

  • Commodore 128 (Score:3, Interesting)

    by selfabuse ( 681350 ) on Sunday March 27, 2005 @01:08PM (#12060377)
    My boss was one of the guys who worked on the Commodore 128 - there's a key sequence you can press (I don't recall what it is off the top of my head - I'm sure a quick googling will turn it up) that will bring up all the engineers names, and an anti-war message. I never had a 128, but I found someone on IRC a couple years back that had one right next to him. I googled up the key sequence, and relayed it back to him, and he read back everything it said to me. It was pretty neat that I work in a pretty small (under 20 employees) company, and my bosses name pops up on a C128.

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