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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