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| Strange Mac os 7.6 easter egg | |
| Posted by: MacG4 on 2009-01-04 22:22:20 Well the other day i was going thru my collection of cd drives and testing them one by one in my quadra 660av. anyway when i got to 1 12x apple drive i went to boot from a os 7.6 cd just like i had been doing with all my other drves. Then this strange error message popped up. i tried duplicating the same result a few times and was only able to get it to happen again about 2 times. now i cannot duplicate the error message at all. weird error message indeed.let me know what you guys think pic here:  | |
| Posted by: Dennis Nedry on 2009-01-04 23:48:06 I've heard of this before in Macworld Mac Secrets 5th edition. Some sort of glitch is activating this hidden easter egg. | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-01-05 01:53:45 Ooo, I've seen that one too - also see sig below | |
| Posted by: MacG4 on 2009-01-05 08:42:54 this one was new to me thats for sure. i had never seen this easter egg or even heard about it for that matter | |
| Posted by: Dog Cow on 2009-01-06 13:56:17 I have heard of this!!! It's extremely rare, from what I've read in the Mac Secrets book! It only comes up at weird times during startup. The rest of the message is 'make a chewy snack.' Here's a little snippit from Macfixit: reen file is placed in the System Folder, and the PRAM zapped, the screen becomes monochrome and the system crashes, but only after a window with the words "Bluets and Granola Bars" first appears! It did not happen in System 7.5.5. Update: …Weird 'Bluets and Granola Bars' Easter egg(?) and Mac OS 7.6 | |
| Posted by: equill on 2009-01-06 20:06:25 Page 303 of MacWorld Mac SECRETS (6th [unlimited] Edition) 2001 has the (a?) story. The effect is peculiar to System 7.6. It's not known whether the unpredictable occurrence is the result of an incomplete Easter Egg, but the code lies in the DSAT 0 resource (visible using ResEdit). What is of more interest is that it is not difficult to escape from the corruption that it causes if you boot from a Disk Tools floppy or System CD, and then do a clean install of OS 7.6.1 (or 8+). de | |
| Posted by: MacG4 on 2009-01-07 22:23:56 interesting indeed. not the best picture i could have took but i took it with my iphone and not my dig camera | |
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