Mac Easter Eggs
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.
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The “secret ROM image” text in particular seemed like it could be related to the picture shown above. I decided to dive deeper to see if I could figure out why the SCSI Manager contained these strings, in the hopes that I could solve the mystery. Would this be the clue I needed in order to figure out how to instruct the Power Mac G3 to display this picture?
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When you open the newly-formatted RAM disk, you should see a file named “The Team”[…]
This mythical animal from the Mac bestiary has been tucked away as an Easter egg in the Emoji & Symbols viewer for many years. Type the letters clarus or moof (the sound it makes) into the search box of that viewer to see the two emoji figures of a dog and a cow, although neither of them resembles Clarus in appearance, as shown in the Page Setup window in recent macOS.
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More inaccessible, but apparently present for even longer, is a PNG image showing marijuana leaves embedded inside the Chess app.
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According to a recent report in MacWorld, the colour-matched wallpapers provided for MacBook Neos spell out MAC.
Previously:
- MacBook Neo
- Almost Fired for Color Picker Poetry
- Tom Dowdy and SimpleText
- An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs
