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Apple Easter Eggs Allegro By: David K. Every & Daniel Fanton (C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved. Mac OS 8.5 was code named Allegro It had a very neat Easter Egg in some of the Beta Versions. This got substantially changed before release -- so here is the original documented here for posterity (even if most people can't ever see this egg). Holding down Command-Option-Control and selecting "About the User Experience Team..." from the Apple menu. The screen would then be cleared and the MacOS face would come up as the background. On top of this background oversized, pixelated icons of bugs and system icons would fade in and out along with credits of those who worked on the OS. It would look like this: The whole show took several minutes and would loop endlessly until the mouse was clicked or a button pressed. This will take a while to load -- but here are all the parts: Created: 08/26/98 Updated: 11/09/02 Top of page Top of Section Home