Mac Secret Trick List

Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 19:55:32 -0800 
From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
Subject: The Macintosh Secret Trick List 

Here is my New and Improved Macintosh Secret Tricks List.
Enjoy, and I'll see you at MacWorld in San Francisco!

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  |  The Macintosh Secret Trick List                 | .  | Hardware       |
  |  compiled by Brian Kendig (bskendig@netcom.com)  | .  | System         |
  |                                          ____    | .  | Other software |
  |  All-new for 1993!  January edition.    | OK |   | .  | Useful tips .  |
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      .................................................    (c)1993 bsk    \


Welcome to the Macintosh Secret Trick List!  A "trick", also known as
a "cookie" or an "easter egg", is something amusing or otherwise
nonproductive (like a poem, a picture, or a song) hidden in a program.
It won't appear unless you do some action you wouldn't normally do, so
you can't find it unless you know what you're looking for.

Some really clever About boxes are mentioned in this list too, and
I've also included a few interesting, useful, and little-known tips
further down that are really handy to know.

Please report corrections to me, no matter how insignificant!  
New info about tricks will be attributed and very much appreciated.

You may (of course!) distribute information about these tricks freely,
but please keep my name on this list if you pass it around whole.
It's okay to distribute this list in electronic format (on disks or
CD-ROMs, over Usenet or BBS's, &c.), but if you'd like to use this
material in a book or newsletter, please contact me first for
permission, and you'll get it.  :-)  It would also be nice to let me
know if you're including this list in a users' group collection, or on
a CD-ROM, or so forth.  So far, this list has been printed in the BMUG
newsletter, translated into Japanese and printed in the Japanese
users' group "MuON" newsletter, used in the upcoming book "Maximizing
your Mac", and distributed on Nautilus and Pacific Hitech CD-ROMs.

Thanks to the people who have written similar lists, from which I've
gotten plenty of ideas: J. D. Sterling Babcock and Mike Kimura, among
others.  For corrections to stuff I had wrong here, thanks go to Paul
Franklin and Seth Pettie.

The list has grown to such a size that I can't personally verify every
trick here, so if you just can't get something to work, please tell me!


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The information below tells what to do to make a trick happen, then
gives away what the trick really is.  If you don't want the trick
spoiled (that is, you don't want to know what it does until you try it
yourself), you can display only the instructions for making it happen
(the lines that begin with an equals sign) with the Unix command

        grep '^=' tricks

where "tricks" is the name of this file.  (Or, have your favorite Mac
text editor remove all lines that don't begin with an equals sign.)

If you want to skip forward to the "Useful Tips" section, have your
software search for three asterisks ('***') now.


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=                              Hardware
=
= Macintosh Plus
= From the debugger, enter "G 40E118" (that's a zero, not an oh).
= (To get into the debugger, press the button on the left side of your
= machine closer to the back.  If you're running System 7, just Shut
= Down your machine, then while the "you may turn off your Macintosh
= safely" dialog is displayed, press the button.)
=
  This gives you a tiny "Stolen from Apple Computer" message in the
  upper left-hand corner of your screen.

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= Macintosh SE
= From the debugger, enter "G 41D89A".
= (See the trick above for info on how to get into the debugger.)

  Four bitmap pictures of the Macintosh development team appear as a
  slideshow.  Reboot (hit the button on the left side of the machine
  closer to the front, with the triangle on it) to get out of the
  endless cycle.

= Also, try entering "G 4188A4" into the debugger.
=
  This gives you a tiny "Stolen from Apple Computer" message in the
  upper left-hand corner of your screen.
  (Contributed by J. D. Sterling Babcock)  

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= Macintosh Classic
= Hold down Command-Option-x-o right after you turn on or reboot the
= machine.
=
  The Classic starts up from a minimal ROM-disk which contains
  System 6.0.3, Finder 6.1x, and AppleShare.  (This version of the
  System is not recommended for use with the Classic, so you probably
  shouldn't boot off it to do any important work.)  If you look at
  the ROM-disk with a program able to see invisible files (like ResEdit
  or MacTools), you'll find a folder named "Brought to you by" hidden
  there, containing more hidden folders bearing the names of the Classic
  designers.  (The keys `X' and `O' were chosen because the development
  name of the Classic was the "Mac XO", or was it OX?)  Also, there's
  an invisible application in the System Folder named "Launch" and set
  as the startup application; anybody know what it does?
  (Thanks to Charles Gousha for more info.)

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= Macintosh SE/30 (with MacsBug loaded)
= Press the interrupt switch to dump yourself into the system debugger.
= Use the command "dm 4082E853 20" to display a few bytes of memory from
= location 4082E853 onwards.
=
  The bytes there spell out, in ascii, "WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?"
  (Contributed by Esa Ristila)

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= Macintosh IIci
= Set the system date to 9/20/89 (the release date of the IIci), and set
= your monitor to 8-bit color.  Restart while holding Command-Option-c-i.
=
  You'll see a color picture of the IIci design team.  Click the mouse
  to continue.  (Other color settings might also work...)

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= Macintosh IIfx
= Set the system date to 3/19/90 (the release date of the IIfx), and
= restart while holding down Command-Option-f-x.
=
  You'll see a color picture of the IIfx design team.  Click the mouse
  to continue.

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= Macintosh ROMs (any of them)
= With a debugger, look at the last few locations on the ROM of your machine.
=
  Developers put their initials there, as well as the date that the ROM
  was linked.  For example, the 128k ROM (Mac Plus) contains, at $41FFC0-
  $41FFFF:
      ALR ELR BA BMB EHB JTC SC DLD PWD KWK LAK SEL BWed, Nov 6, 1985
  which are the initials of ?, Erich Ringewald, Bill Atkinson, Bill Bruffey,
  Ernie Beernik (sp?), Jerome Coonan, Steve Capps, Donn Denmann, Pat Dirks,
  ?, Larry Kenyon, and ?.
  (Contributed by Scott Lindhurst and Ed Tecot)

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= Apple Fax Modem
= While holding down the button on the front panel, turn on the modem.
= The modem will beep three times.  After the three beeps, press the
= button again three times, timed exactly in "rhythm" with the beeps.
=
  If your timing is correct, the modem will speak the digitally-recorded
  voices of the three developers saying their names ("Peter, Alan, Neal").
  (Contributed by Neal Johnson and Alex Rosenberg)


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=
=                               System
=	  ("7.0" means 7.0.0 or 7.0.1 and probably 7.1 also)
=
= Multifinder 1.0 (distributed with System Software prior to 6.0)
= Hold down Command and Option while selecting "About Multifinder"
= from the bottom of the Apple menu.
=
  A scrolling list of credits appears.
  (Contributed by Seth Theriault)

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= Multifinder 6.0
= Select "About Multifinder" and leave the dialog up for about an
= hour or more.  (Yes, this means you can't use your machine meanwhile.)
=
  A message will appear:
    "I want my"
    "I want my"
    "I want my l--k and f--l"
  You can also see this message if you snoop around in the 'STR#'
  resources of Multifinder for a while with ResEdit.
  (Contributed by Tony Cooper and James Boswell)

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= System 6.0.7, 6.0.8, or 7.0
= Take a look through the data fork of the System File (with MacSnoop
= or MacTools, or open it with MS Word).  (It's short.)
=
  The string "Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system
  software factory!" is in the data fork, with a list of the names
  of the Blue Meanies (the System 7 developers).
  (Contributed by Kevin Bolduan and Seth Theriault)

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= System 6.0.7J (Kanjitalk)
= Set the clock to January 1, 1992, and restart.
=
  The startup screen says "Happy new year" in Japanese.
  (Contributed by Junio Hamano)

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= System 7.0
= With ResEdit, take a look at STR# resource -16415 in the System file.

  The first string in the resource reads "May you code in
  interesting times."
  (Posted to Usenet by Nigel Stanger)

= Also, while running System 7, try renaming a disk to "Like Wow Man.
= HFS For 7.0!" (where the space after 'Man.' is actually an option-space;
= you'll have to type this somewhere else like the Notepad then cut/paste
= it into the disk name).  Then eject the disk with Command-E, and double-
= click on the greyed-out disk icon.
=
  The Mac will ask you to please re-insert "HFS for 7.0 by dns and ksct".
  (The intials are of David N. Feldman and Kenny S. C. Tung, who wrote
  the HFS extensions for System 7.)  Other disk names work, due to the
  way the name is checked; try "KMEG JJ KS" or "Hello world JS N A DTP".
  (Found by Francois Grieu and mentioned in TidBITS #143)

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= Finder 7.0
= Hold down Option while choosing "About This Macintosh".
=
  (The menu option changes to "About the Finder", and if balloon help is
  turned on, the balloon now reads "Displays a dialog with the original
  Finder picture.")  The original picture of the mountains from "About
  the Finder" in System 1.0 appears.  If the creation date of the
  invisible "Desktop Folder" is May 13, 1991 (System 7's release date)
  or later, the names of all the Finder developers through Mac and Lisa
  history also scroll by.  Hold down Command-Option while choosing
  "About" to get a goofy-face cursor.

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= Caches 7.0.1 (on a Quadra)
= Turn on balloon help and point to the version number.
= Also, try option-clicking on the version number.
=
  The balloon reads "Wink, wink".  Option-clicking makes the "040"
  icon whoosh to the side, revealing the name of the programmer.
  (Contribued by Kemi Jona)

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= Caps Lock 7.0.1 (on a PowerBook 100, 140, 145, or 170)
= Turn on balloon help and point to the Caps Lock file icon.
=
  The balloon help reads: "This file allows your Macintosh TIM or
  Derringer to display an icon..."  (These were the working names of the
  first PowerBooks; Apple forgot to change the extension before System
  7.0.1 was released!  Whoops.)
  (Contributed by Seth Theriault and Fabian Hahn)

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= Color Control Panel 7.0
= Click on the Sample Text a few times.
=
  The strings "by Dean Yu" "& Vincent Lo" alternate.

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= Labels Control Panel 7.0
= Delete all the label names in the Labels control panel, and reboot.
=
  The labels are now "None," "a", "l", "a", "n", "j", "e", "f".

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= Map Control Panel
= Type MID as the city name, and click Find.  Also try: clicking on the
= version number, option-clicking on Find, opening the control panel
= while you hold down shift and/or option, clicking somewhere in the Map
= and dragging off the edge of it, or copying the map from the Scrapbook
= and pasting it while the Map control panel is open.
=
  The stored point MID is actually "Middle of Nowhere", an insignificant
    location in the middle of the South Atlantic.  (This one was added
    in version 7.0.)
  Clicking on the "7.0" puts "v7.0, by Mark Davis" into the city name
    field until you release the mouse button.
  Option-clicking on Find repeatedly will take you alphabetically to
      every city the Map knows.
  Opening the control panel while you hold down the shift key will
    display a magnified map (the resolution is the same, so it's very jagged).
    Opening it with option held down magnifies it more, and shift-option
    magnifies it even more to the point of being really blocky.
  Dragging off the edge of the map will scroll around the world.
  You can paste a new picture into the control panel; the Scrapbook that
    comes with System 7 includes a particularly good color map.
  (Contributed by Takeshi Miyazaki and Doc O'Leary)

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= Memory Control Panel 7.0 (on a machine capable of virtual memory)
= Turn on virtual memory and hold down Option while clicking on the
= pop-up menu used to choose a hard drive for your swapfile.
=
  This brings up a hierarchical pop-up menu with the names of the
  programmers; each name points to a submenu with a few comments.
  (Contributed by Povl Hessellund Pedersen)

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= Monitors Control Panel 7.0
= Click the version number (7.0) in the control panel window.  While you
= hold down the mouse button, tap Option several times.
=
  When you click, a box pops up with the names of the people who wrote
  Monitors.  Pressing Option makes the smiley face stick out its tongue.
  After tapping Option several times, the names begin to get rearranged
  and some first and last names get replaced with "Blue" or "Meanies".

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= Finder 7.0 and MacsBug
= Turn on Balloon Help and point to the MacsBug file.
=
  The balloon reads: "This file provides programmers with information
  proving that it really was a hardware problem..."

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= QuickTime
= Turn on Balloon Help and point to the QuickTime file.

  The balloon reads: "time n. A nonspatial continuum in which events
  occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past to the
  present to the future."
  (Contributed by Kristopher Nasadowski)


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=
=                           Other Software
=
= Adobe Photoshop
= Hold down the Option key and select "About Photoshop".
=
  A dialog crediting "Knoll Software" as the original designers appears.
  (Contributed by Karl-Koenig Koenigsson)

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= Blackjack (the shareware version by Ed Trice)
= Even though the docs say this won't run on anything older than an SE<
= try running it on a Mac Plus.
=
  The dialog reads "This program requires at least a Macintosh SE.
  Please call Smithsonian to donate your antique."
  (Contributed by Mark Nagata)

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= Claris CAD
= Hold down the Option key and select "About Claris CAD".
=
  A system configuration summary appears.
  (Contributed by Karl-Koenig Koenigsson)

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= ColorSnap (comes with the Computer Friends ColorSnap 32+ card)
= Select "About ColorSnap", and click on each of the two programmers' faces.
=
  Clicking on the right face puts him in Freddie Krueger garb and adds the
  caption "Hacking the Freddie Krueger way".  Clicking on the left face
  replaces it with a can of Mountain Dew with the caption "Mountain Dew,
  the programmer's beverage of choice".
  (Contributed by King Rhoton)

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= CompuServe Information Manager 2.0.2
= Option-click on the spinning earth in the About box, and hold the
= mouse button down.
=
  The earth spins in the other direction.  Eventually, other windows will
  appear, giving credit to the authors.
  (Contributed by Rene Ros)

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= Dark Castle
= Try playing the game on December 25 (or set your system's clock to
= that date, and play the game).
=
  A Christmas tree appears in the foyer.
  (Contributed by Philip Craig)

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= DART (Apple's Disk Archiving and Retrieval)
= Select "About DART", and click on the picture of the dartboard.
=
  A credits animation will play; clicking on the text area while the
  credits are displaying will make them go by faster.
  (Contributed by Oliver Breidenbach)

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= Disinfectant
= Select "About Disinfectant", and hold a menu down to pause the
= advancing virus names while the music plays (to prevent the foot
= from arriving too soon and stopping the music).
=
  John Norstad appears in one half of the dialog, while in the other
  half an animated sequence of virus names march out as the Monty Python
  theme song plays, until they get stomped by a huge foot.  Holding down
  a menu pauses the viruses but not the music, and if you hold the menu
  down long enough, the entire theme song (John Philip Sousa's "Liberty
  Bell March") will play!  (You may have to release the mouse button
  every now and then if the music does stop.)
  (Contributed by Dave Claytor and Mitchell Marmel)

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= FaxMaker (the fax utility that comes with the PowerBook 170)
= Click on the icon in the about box.
=
  The arrow pointer changes into a mouse, and a scrolling list of
  the developers appears.
  (Contributed by Fabian Hahn)

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= Finale 2.x
= Select "About Finale" and wait for a few seconds.
=
  The conductor walks away.
  (Contributed by Arthur Rishi)

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= FlashWrite II
= Hold down Option as you select "About FlashWrite II" under the "star" logo.
=
  A Mr. Mojo Risin' quotation appears.
  (Contributed by Dave Claytor)

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= FrameMaker
= Put the word "Interleaf" into a document, and spell-check it.
=
  FrameMaker will substitute "FrameMaker" wherever it finds "Interleaf".
  (Interleaf is FrameMaker's competition.)
  (Contributed by Erik Ableson)

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= HyperCard 2.x
= Hold down Option as you select "About Hypercard...".
=
  In 2.1, you get a dialog describing your system setup.  In either 2.0
  or 2.1, the chooser name, if you've entered one, appears in the
  "HyperCard by" title.  (That is, if you entered "Joe Cool" as your
  name in the Chooser (6.0) or Sharing Setup (7.0), the top of the
  window will read "HyperCard by Joe Cool".  If you have no Chooser
  name, one of the names of the many developers is put there.)
  Also, on any recent Mac (ones that require System 7.0.1 or 7.1),
  you will be told your system is a "Macintosh Macintosh".
  (Thanks to Seth Theriault for more info.)

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= Installer
= On version 3.0.1 (the one that comes with System 6.0.7 and 6.0.8),
= after dismissing the initial welcome dialog, type "ski".

  A humorous list of the developers will appear, and you will be able
  to choose from five wait-cursors: the hand with the moving fingers
  (standard), a spinning globe, the familiar spinning disc, the even
  more familiar wristwatch, and dots that move.
  (Contributed by John DeRosa and John Hawkinson)

= Here's another: On version 3.2 (the one that comes with System 7),
= hold down command and option while the Easy Install screen is up.
=
  The Help button becomes "About", and clicking on it brings up a few
  screens of credits.
  (Contributed by Matthew Russotto)

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= Jam Session
= Choose "About Jam Session".
=
  The credits are displayed on the label of a record, and you can hear
  it click (as an old record does after it's played to the end).  When
  you click the mouse to dismiss the dialog, you hear the scratching
  noise of the needle being lifted off the record.
  (Contributed by Joe Campbell)

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= KiwiEnvelopes! 3.1
= Choose "About KiwiEnvelopes!".
=
  A letter is deposited into a mail truck which then rolls off the screen.
  After it leaves, a marquee shows the names of the development team.
  (Contributed by Dave Claytor)

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= MacDraw Pro
= Hold down Option while selecting "About MacDraw Pro".
=
  The dialog shows your system setup.
  (Contributed by Dave Claytor)

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= MacPaint 2.0 (only the first few copies, …

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