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Easter eggs are little tributes to the programmers of computer products hidden somewhere in the software. They are usually activated by some wacky combination of mouse clicks or keystrokes. Here are a few known eggs for the Pilot...

Taxi easter egg for OS 2 - OS 3:
Reveal the Preferences easter egg as shown below.
Hold the page down button in any application (you might need to exit the Prefs app) and draw a line from the middle of the Graffiti input area to the left edge of the screen between the applications and the menu silkscreen buttons. There goes the taxi!

Submitted by Wesley Newswanger @ juno.com on October 7, 1998

Preferences easter egg:
Go to Preferences, General tab.
Draw a small counter-clockwise circle in the lower right corner of the display area. If done properly, you should see an easter egg.
Works on OS 2 - OS 3

Submitted by Wesley Newswanger @ juno.com on October 7, 1998

Memory Application easter egg:
Hold the stylus on the title bar at the top of the screen,
Press the scroll-down button.
You get a list of authors of the Pilot!

mike@geary.com
submitted by
rob@logan.com

Giraffe Game easter egg:
In the Giraffe game, hold stylus in the upper right corner (or any upper portion of the screen).
Press the page down button.
The Pilot clears the screen and displays:

Not ready reading drive C
Abort, Retry, Fail?

Tapping on the screen returns to Giraffe.

Gary (gvisser@spyrus.com )
Matt Blaze (
mab@crypto.com)

Giraffe Game easter egg:
In the Giraffe game, hold stylus in the lower right corner of the display area.
Press the page up button.
The Pilot displays a picture of what looks like a couple of guys in tuxedos, landscape. I have no idea who they are.

Tapping on the screen returns to Giraffe.

Brad (
brad@ltc.com)

Giraffe Game easter egg:
In the Giraffe game, hit the Help button, then draw the '#' character.
The hula-dancing tree will appear somewhere on the screen.

Bill Gallagher (
billga@microsoft.com)

Find Taxi easter egg (OS 1.x only):
In the 'Find' application, hold down the 'Scroll-Down' Button and draw a horizontal line from the center of the graffiti-field to the left edge of the screen.
Then you will see a taxi drive through!!!

Sebastian Werner (
we@condat.de)

Sorry! I am no longer accepting additional easter egg submissions. I cannot keep up with all the e-mails and site maintenance. I'm sure there are other, more complete egg archives available on the internet. Thank you all for your contributions in the past. -Rob


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