Easter Eggs

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#1 realNoName   User is offline

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Easter Eggs

Posted 05 December 2008 - 11:43 AM

A post by zooms got me thinking about all the funny and stupid easter eggs that get put into software that i have seen over the years, so what about you guys do you have any good easter eggs to share

*edit: lets change the topic to any bug / easter eggs that you have found or that you put into your own code

some that i have seen

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Load up notepad.

Type "bush hid the facts"

save the document, any name works.

Close it.

Open it again and see the magic.


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instantly win a game of solitaire
press Alt + Shift + 2


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Excel 97 Flight to Credits
On a new Worksheet, Press F5

Type X97:L97 and hit enter

Press the tab key

Hold Ctrl-Shift

Click on the Chart Wizard toolbar button

Use mouse to fly around - Right button forward/ Left button reverse

This post has been edited by realNoName: 05 December 2008 - 04:26 PM


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#2 homemade-jam   User is offline

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Re: Easter Eggs

Posted 05 December 2008 - 11:59 AM

I'm pretty sure that first one was a bad gag.

As for the second one that is true.

I read a load of these in PC plus magazine the other day which I meant to try out...
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Posted 05 December 2008 - 12:04 PM

the first one works I just tested it :)
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Re: Easter Eggs

Posted 05 December 2008 - 12:31 PM

The first one is *not* an easter egg.. just a bug.
http://en.wikipedia....h_hid_the_facts

A more interesting topic would be: "What easter eggs have YOU put into your code?"
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Re: Easter Eggs

Posted 05 December 2008 - 01:12 PM

http://www.hoax-slay...ts-notepad.html
The thing that gets me is that someone must have actually tried it in the first place to realise this.

I think I once did something that if you clicked something in the Snippet Manager, it opened up a dialog which said "KYA is gay."


I think I got rid of it though.
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Re: Easter Eggs

Posted 05 December 2008 - 01:48 PM

Wow. It works with any 4-letter than all odd number words afterwords messages. It's so weird!
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Posted 05 December 2008 - 04:24 PM

the note pad might not be a real easter egg but its still funny
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Re: Easter Eggs

Posted 06 December 2008 - 06:52 AM

The Notepad bug was news to me.
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Posted 06 December 2008 - 11:20 AM

They do not appear to work in vista.
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Re: Easter Eggs

Posted 07 December 2008 - 12:24 AM

View PostWilliam_Wilson, on 6 Dec, 2008 - 11:20 AM, said:

They do not appear to work in vista.

yea no luck for vista :v: notepad or solitaire . . .havent tried the excel one yet tho
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