An Easter (Egg) Holiday? 104
updog asks: "With Easter just around the corner, what better way for folks to celebrate than finding their own Easter Egg? While many people have seen the classic Excel Flight Simulator, there are over 10,000 other Easter Eggs found in DVD's, books, and music — for example, there are over 8 eggs on the Futurama DVD; and some hidden emoticons in Skype. What are some of your favorite Easter Eggs?"
Star Trek box sets (Score:2, Interesting)
I discovered these by accident, and then spent hours finding and watching them.
My Favorite hidden skype emoticon... (Score:1)
Sharky Snark (Score:2)
Spring Egg? (Score:2)
Rejoice in the fact that your holidays haven't been sponsored by a white rabbit who clucks like a chicken (apologies to insensitive clod joker whose god is a white rabbit that sounds like a chicken).
Most Recent Favorite (Score:3, Interesting)
C&C's dino level was kind of funny, though I don't remember if I've seen it or only heard of it anymore.
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talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
eloquent like `fuck'.
Karateka for the Apple II (Score:5, Funny)
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"Over 8 eggs"? (Score:4, Funny)
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The number of eggs is actually quite high (Score:4, Funny)
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My favorite thing (Score:3, Funny)
There was a number of ways to have it showing out. In Vista they have changed the colour.
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Homestar Runner (Score:4, Informative)
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I always look for the (expected) easter egg at the end of Strong Bad's e-mails.
The ones in the AmigaOS were interesting... (Score:2)
Easter egg run in Glasgow (Score:2, Interesting)
http://glasgoweggrun.mag-uk.org/ [mag-uk.org]
An Easter egg is the required participation fee.
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries (Score:3, Interesting)
In that game, the menu concept is based around graphic representations of rooms, in which you click on things like computers and doors to access things. In one of the rooms, you could click on a light and it brought up a big group photo of the dev team, and each member had a little blurb which you could access by clicking their photo.
Best of all, I first found it completely by accident rather than because of some howto on some website, making it all the more enjoyable.
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Today (Score:1, Funny)
*ducks*
Linux Easter eggs? (Score:3, Interesting)
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so -vv -vvv -vvv
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Slashdot will not allow me to display the ASCII art, its a rather crude drawing of 2 para
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It won't, I read the source :-)
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tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
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=GAMES("StarWars")
in a cell to play a little space invaders-like game. It works in in the windows version of Open Office, I haven't tried it in the Linux version.
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I thought OOo was supposed to be cross-platform.
Re:Linux Easter eggs? (Score:4, Informative)
=GAME("StarWars")
I thought it was GAMES, but I was mistaken. Does it work properly in FC or Ubuntu with the correct function? If it doesn't, I'm going to look like a troll, but I swear it works for me. =)
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on Gentoo has a cowsay ASCII art of a cow (the humorously named Larry the Cow, which is definitely female) asking "Have you mooed today?" Not as cool as the other ones above, but it's something. kdebase-3.y.z.tar.bz2 (I've seen it as far back as 3.1, and I just checked and it's still in 3.5.6)'s configure script makes the following superfluous check:
You can find other goodies in configure scripts around the software universe, but I d
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Rise of the Triad (Score:4, Informative)
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good old BeOS (Score:1)
Various Apple Easter Eggs (Score:1)
MacKido has a great big list [mackido.com].
The ones I remember off of the top of my head:
Iguana Flag [mackido.com]
Hidden Breakout Game [mackido.com]
Rosetta Rosetta Rosetta [mackido.com]
Adventure (Score:2)
Man I'm old....
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I hope Warren Robinett received the recognition he deserved from the developer community. He set a great precedent.
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In the more recent "TV Games" joystick releases, the author's name has been removed. Quite sad.
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I remember stumbling across that playing at a friend's house...still think of it whenever the topic of software Easter eggs comes up.
Doom 3 (Score:1)
John Carmack's Head (Score:1)
shrubbery (Score:3, Funny)
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Will rip the audio file from a vob. If the encoded music is part of a vob file, it can be ripped.
WC2 (Score:1)
Also, after scrolling through the tips of the day, you would occasionally come across some like
"Never pet a burning dog" or "Don't spit into the wind".
And let us never forget all the stuff you could get units to say in all the blizzard games by just clicking on them a bunch a of times.
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Ultima & other RPGs (Score:2)
This wasn't so much of an EE as it was the developer's testing and QA tool. I don't think I learned about it until it was made public, but it was fun to play around.
Also in U7, you'll find my character's
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Also, let's not forget that in Ultime 7 part 2 (serpent isle), you could add a command-line parameter that would alter the Guardian's opening speech, such that he would say "Avatar! Know that my face is most muppet like!"
Infocom (Score:2)
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It simply replys "Watch it"
Battlefield 1942 (Score:1)
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Dark Castle (Score:2)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Score:2)
almost an easter egg (Score:2)
Not really an easter egg (Score:1)
Photoshop (Score:2)
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Quark 4 had a key combo that would march a small alien out to zap your selected item to delete it, also with sound effect..
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pinball games (Score:2)
Maybe not an 'egg'... (Score:2)
Quake II (Score:1)
That game actually tells you how many secrets there are and how many you found!
UNIX (Score:1)
In older versions of UNIX you could type:
> make love
To which the system would reply:
Don't know how to make love, stop.
"Holy Shit" in Quake 3 Arena CTF (Score:1)
uTorrent (Score:1)
HELP SAM (Score:2)
HELP commandname
The help was pretty thorough and well-written, considering that CP-6 was a nearly new operating system. Every system command was there, with detailed syntax in
Macintosh System 7.1 - Simpletext (Score:2)
I've never seen this one published and I haven't been able to trigger it since.
I was learning how to use Simpletext (on a Mac IIsi), (a simple editing application distributed with the early Macintoshes) I think I was using the "Help" feature - I was (am) painfully slow at times
Fun diag/error messages? (Score:2)
For example, being root, and then losing authentication for the root user (some error reading
"You don't exist, go away!"
Others includ the "something wicked happened while X" network messages and various fun messages that occur in certain obscure/erroneous scenarios.
mIRC (Score:2)
The copy protection in Frac (Score:2)