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Easter Eggs
Nope not the kind you look for on Easter morning but little trinkets left inside of most commercial programs by the developer. Original easter eggs where included in programs to prove that the program really was written by the author who claimed it. When someone else would claim to have written the software the developer could say hey how do you make the software do this? Then demonstrate a hidden feature of the software that no one else knew about except the programmer. Over time easter eggs have remained quite popular among programmers though now less for the legal reasons than for the shear fun of hiding a secret game in there otherwise often boring program or to simply draw attention to themselves in the credits. Listed below are a few common easter eggs and instructions on how to access them.
  • Excel 97: This cool easter egg is one of the most interesting I have seen it is a flight simulator hidden inside of Excel 97.
  1. Open a new worksheet.
  2. Press F5
  3. Type in X97:L97
  4. Press Enter
  5. Press Tab
  6. Hold Ctrl+Shift
  7. Click the chart wizard icon.
  8. Press ESC to exit.
  • Word 97: This easter egg brings up a simply pinball game you may play using the M and Z keys for the flippers.
  1. Open a new document.
  2. Type the word Blue as shown here with a capital B only.
  3. Highlight the word Blue.
  4. From the Format menu select font and select bold and the color blue.
  5. Type a space after the word Blue.
  6. Hold Ctrl
  7. Go to the help menu and select About Microsoft Word
  8. Click on the blue W icon in the window that opens.
  9. Press ESC to exit the pinball game.
  • Starcraft the Brood War: This easter egg which only works in Brood War will make the Overmind sing disco music.
  1. Start a new zerg game in brood war (you must have the broodwar CD in not the original Starcraft CD for this to work.
  2. Press enter.
  3. Type in the words "radio free zerg"
  4. Press enter
  5. The overmind singing about his moves and his groove will now replace the normal background music for a few minutes.
  • Windows 98: This easter egg in Windows 98 brings up the credits in a sort of music video.
  1. Double Click the clock on the taskbar.
  2. Select the time zone tab.
  3. Hold Ctrl.
  4. Click and drag from Memphis Egypt to Memphis Tennessee then to Redmond Washington.

 

Links
ZD Net This is one of the webs coolest computing sites it even has its own television network.
CNN One of the webs most comprehensive sources for world news.
Simutronics The coolest online gaming company in the world featuring Dragon Realms the best game I've ever seen.
Utopia Another interesting game not as good as Dragon Realms but hey this ones free and a lot less time consuming.
Blizzard Another cool gaming company the maker of Diablo, Warcraft, and Starcraft.
Easter Egg Archive This is a much larger website full of easter eggs.
Code Archive This is the best sample source code site I have seen.
FASA Maker of Shadowrun and other cool Role Playing Games.