Code Name: Capone (Apple hopes that like the famous gangster, Capone will strike fear into the hearts of Chicago, Microsoft窶冱 code name for Windows 95)
When opening the System with a text program, I used the program ???->TEXT, you will find a few interesting messages. The program ???->TEXT is shareware but there are also many other text programs that will open general documents, such as the system, that contain text (for example: MacSnoop, MacTools, MS Word, or changing a document in ResEdit to a type of 'text').
When opening system 7.5 you will see this message:
Help! Help! He's STILL being held prisoner in a system software factory!
The Blue Meanie:
Brian McGhie
Also serving time:ﾂ
Giovanni Agnoli
Eric3 Anderson
[more credits continue...]
and Tristan Farnon (because he paid us ten bucks)
Fugitives:
Lars Borresen
Scott Boyd
Jaime Cummins
Brad Post
Will the last person to leave please turn off the lights?
[Unreadable ASCII Text and then the same text in the Threads Manager Extension]
When opening system 7.1 you will receive a similar message but instead there are various 窶廝lue Meanies窶. Check it out, it窶冱 pretty fun.
ï｣ｿSystem Update 2.0
From: Steve Myers (Tullamore@aol.com)
The Blue Meanies have hit again the most recent release of System 7.5.3. This text was taken from the file "System Update 2.0" with a text reader.
Mercenaries hit the factory and freed the prisoners.
On contract:
Wendy Chiou
Doug Clark
Mike Crawford
Michael Dautermann
[more credits continue...]
Freed, armed, and dangerous:
Eric3 Anderson
Clinton Bauder
Derrick Carty
Jeff Crawford
[more credits continue...]
Released before the raid:
Giovanni Agnoli
William Berry
Dave Falkenburg
Rob lunatic Moore
Randy theLen
[more credits continue...]
Fugitives:
Sam Barone
Lars Borresen
Scott Boyd
Jaime Cummins
Hoon Im
Brad Post
Paul Wolf
Who dares wins.
Also Appearing...
The following eggs are in the designated STRs resource ID's of the System Update 2.0 file...
-16572: Output sifter based on the DAV Audio Driver. This beast does not touch hardware directly in an attempt to be more portable.
-20030: Singer Sound Chip hardware specific support. Controls the hardware interrupt and calls up the sound component chain to get audio data for the hardware. Jim Reekes calls this the spatula.
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System Resources
In the Strs Resource of the System open the ID's below to see what Jim Reeks thinks of Apple hardware. I'm scared to see what's in his kitchen.
-6583: Apple Sound Chip hardware specific support. Controls the hardware interrupt and calls up the sound component chain to get audio data for the ASC. Jim Reekes calls this the spatula.
-16579: Utility audio data converter, goes forwards, backwards, changes 8 bit data into 16, 16 into 8, offset binary into twos compliment, twos into offset, it slices, it dices.
-16569: Awacs Sound Chip hardware specific support. Controls the hardware interrupt and calls up the sound component chain to get audio data for the AWACS. Jim Reekes calls this the spatula.
-6580: This is glue between the sound component chain and the sound manager. It gets more audio data when more is requested. Jim Reekes calls this the fridge.
Note: These also appear in the Strs resource of PC Enabler and System 7.5 Update files.
ï｣ｿ Also, crack open the i2c resource and look at ID -16783 (the only one). Scroll alway the way to bottom to see "Begin Egret Glue". A possible egg, no reason not to put it in here. Dave Fernandez (dfernandez@pomona.edu)
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System 7.5 Updateﾂ
Code Name: Danook
In System 7.5 Update (should be in system folder if you updated
your computer to 7.5.1) there are the same names as the System
file, above, with these additions:
Also serving time: Sam Barone, Ian Hendry, Paul Wolf Mercenary: John Yen
Happy New Year!
From: Nobuhiko Yoshida (Nobu_Yoshida@MAILHOST.NET)
In system 6.0.7J->7.5.2J (KanjiTalk) "Welcome to Macintosh" is replaced by 窶廩appy New Year窶 in Japanese from January 1 through January 3 every year. The secret message can be seen on any Mac, wherever manufacured, and KanjiTalk is installed.
