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By: David K. Every
& Daniel Fanton
(C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved.
Personal LaserWriter SC
Personal LaserWriter SC Code Name:
Shout
While running the Personal LaserWriter SC, version 7.0.1 (most likely other versions), click on the version number in the Page Setup or Print menu to see a list of credits.
LaserWriter 3000
While running the Personal LaserWriter SC, version 7.1 (most likely other versions), Option-click on the version number in the Page Setup or Print menu to see a list of credits.
The above two eggs also apply to a vast number of other drivers which will do the same thing.
LaserWriter Egg
Pretty near impossible to do, but:
- Power up with the rotary switch on the controller on
"0".
- Rotate the switch to "4", wait 3 seconds, then rotate
the switch continuously for 10 seconds.
- Stop on switch setting "5".
- After about 1-2 seconds, the green light will start
blinking and a
credits page will come out. (If you miss the timing, you have to power up again -- it only works on the first switch setting change!)Some notes about what you will see: "Fast fish in a hot car" was the caption to a project T-shirt featuring an illustration from "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" (the printer's operating system was code-named Dr. Seuss). The "fast fish" is Bass, the *real* code name for TrueType. "Bass" itself is a play on "scaleable" fonts.
Guaranteed in revision 1.0, unknown in later revisions.
Super-Secret LaserWriter II w/Fax, order a Pizza
egg
from David Every <[email protected]>
I wish I had all the details for this egg. But I heard it from the programmer at the 6th "stump the experts" game (at Apple's World Wide Develpers Conference).Basically, if you send a certain small postscript file to the LaserWriter (II?), with the Fax modem installed, it will instead fax over an order to a favorite order to a Silicon Valley Pizza Shop. This got a huge round of applause from the other programmers. I'd love to record the specifics for posterity if anyone knows them.
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