[ale] OFFTOPIC: M$ Easter Eggs.

Jonathan jfondow at sprintmail.com
Fri Jul 30 15:20:06 EDT 1999


This is a prime example of lean software.  Maybe not what you are
looking for but along the same line.

Excel 97 contains a flight simulator Easter egg. 

                       To execute it: 

                        1.Open a new workbook in Excel 97 
                        2.Press <F5> (Go To) 
                        3.Type X97:L97 
                        4.Click OK 
                        5.Press <Tab> 
                        6.Concurrently Press <Ctrl-Shift> + Click the
"Chart Wizard" icon 

              Your mouse will control up/down and left/right motions.
Can you find the credits? 

              To exit, press <Ctrl-Shift-Esc> 




Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> 
> ok,
>   I'm arguing with some M$ drones again.  They seem to SWEAR that
> all MS products are mean and lean, no bloat. (brainwashing is great).
> At any rate, I'm trying to find an egg I've seen once.  There's a M$
> product that installs a 65Meg .dll file.  It's actually a .avi of the
> credits for the product.
> 
> Does anyone know what the product is or a site that lists easter eggs and
> such?
> 
> Robert
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris                |   "A person is smart;
> Senior System Administrator     |        People are dumb, panicky
>   at Global Commerce Systems.    \_            dangerous animals"  - Agent K
> 
> http://www.orci.com/~nomad
> 
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> 
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'






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