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What secrets lurk inside the heart of your Mac? Are you too frightened to
look? I didn't think so.

Grab this self-viewing DocMaker file to discover what those zany Apple
engineers and programmers have hidden inside your Macintosh and Newton. You
may be amazed!

Welcome to the first Easter release of the world's largest collection of
Apple easter eggs. In fact, there are over 200 of them! This is a
compilation of secrets stuffed inside of your Macintosh or Newton by Apple
programmers and engineers, which are not accessible without doing something
that you wouldn't normally do. Easter eggs include random jokes, elaborate
credit screens, or hard-to-find games that are meant to give the creator a
little fame, also adding a personal touch to the best computer on earth.

For Example: One well known easter egg is if you type "secret about box", in
System 7.5, in Stickies and drag it to the desktop. You will be able to play
a game, or you can see and move a virtual flag on the new PCI Macs in System
7.5.2 & 7.5.3. Download this file for more info.

All eggs only apply to Apple Computer made products so any Mac or Newton
owner can try them without having to deal with other software. This file has
been mentioned in MacWorld Magazine, put on CD's, mentioned in books and
E-Zines, was a most popular download on AOL, and is a top download at many
other software sights.

The upgrade: Version 1.4 has all of the eggs in previous versions and plenty
more. I did not have a main focus for this release but there are many
excellent and detailed additions, and even a peek at the first Copland easter
egg. I also fixed spelling, made many corrections, and added roughly 50 more
eggs to the collection. Also, with the release of DocMaker 4.6, there is a
much better interface and I cleaned things up a bit. There are so many
changes I can not list them all. Download this file, look around, and have
fun!

Made with DocMaker, which means it is stand-alone. It requires no other
helper applications but a decompressor. A Newton only list of easter eggs is
also available for all PC owners.




Here you go Igor... Thanks!
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If you've seen some really beautiful 16 or 24 bit quicktime moovs on someone
else's expensive Mac, and you've seen really beautiful GIF images on your own
piddling 8 bit Mac (256 colors), and you whish you could get the quality of
the later when viewing the former (and you don't mind run-on sentences), then
you've come to the right posting!

This is a simple trick that anyone can do to improve the color of quicktime
moovs on a mac that can only display 256 simultaneous colors. It doesn't
always work, and sometimes it makes them look much worse. But there are lots
of moovs out there that it does help, and hey - it's free!

Background (experienced graphics people can skip this):

Color Macs can actually display over 16 million colors. The trouble is that