{"id":51706,"date":"2026-04-24T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51706"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:18:50","slug":"mac-easter-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/mac-easter-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Easter Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtowndougbrown.com\/2025\/06\/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom\/\">Doug Brown<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/06\/27\/2358259\/after-27-years-engineer-discovers-how-to-display-secret-photo-in-power-mac-rom\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.downtowndougbrown.com\/2025\/06\/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom\/\">\n<p>I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3&rsquo;s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;secret ROM image&rdquo; 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?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When you open the newly-formatted RAM disk, you should see a file named &ldquo;The Team&rdquo;[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2026\/04\/03\/mac-easter-eggs\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2026\/04\/03\/mac-easter-eggs\/\">\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/08\/31\/a-brief-history-of-clarus-the-dogcow\/\">mythical animal<\/a> from the Mac bestiary has been tucked away as an Easter egg in the Emoji &amp; Symbols viewer for many years. Type the letters <em>clarus<\/em> or <em>moof<\/em> (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.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>More inaccessible, but apparently present for even longer, is a PNG image showing marijuana leaves embedded inside the Chess app. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3079526\/easter-egg-hiding-in-macbook-neos-wallpaper.html\">recent report<\/a> in MacWorld, the colour-matched wallpapers provided for MacBook Neos spell out MAC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/macbook-neo\/\">MacBook Neo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/10\/almost-fired-for-color-picker-poetry\/\">Almost Fired for Color Picker Poetry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/05\/tom-dowdy-and-simpletext\/\">Tom Dowdy and SimpleText<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/an-illustrated-history-of-easter-eggs\/\">An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Brown (Slashdot): I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3&rsquo;s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. 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