You ought to send these in to Oliver Fross. I think that he doesn't have
a couple of these listed. Also, I have the Mt. Everest city on my 120.
-James
>From: Ed Kummel <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] Time Zones Fun
>
>>Dredging up ancient memories, wasn't there an Easter
>>Egg, or something similar that would randomly depict a
>>place where Elvis was seen? I remember that you would
>
>(from various sources, additions anyone?)
>
>NewtOS 1.x Easter Eggs
>
>- Perform an Assist on the phrase "Find Elvis" (without quotes)
>
>- Perform an Assist on the phrase "About Newton" (without quotes;
>pre-OS 1.3, shows Programmers names, often letteres are randomly
>dropped, finishes dedication to a deceased team member, Ko Isono, who
>commited suicide)
>
>- Perform an Assist on the phrase "=DCber Newton" (without quotes; German
>pre-OS 1.3 only)
>
> - Put two or three spaces after the first line of your address and you
>will get a different start-up screen. The screens vary depending on
>Newton and country: MP100: 1 space: cat on a chair playing with a
>Newton, 2 spaces: crow holding a Newton stylus in his talons, and the
>Newton lightbulb logo; MP110: 2 spaces: Cat on chair, 3 or more spaces:
>a baby newt in a cage with a Dec. 15, 1993 birth announcement; MP 120: 2
>spaces: Cat on chair, 3 spaces: Newt in the garden of eden (Does not
>work on the French version)
>
> - Set your country is "Graceland" puts a Newt onto the start-up
>(without quotes; pre-OS 1.3)
>
> - Open the Extras drawer and click un the upper left corner then in the
>upper right corner; you'll see a connecton/debugging dialog.
>
> - If the MessagePad displays a warning or error message, you can tap on
>the up and down arrows to view the last 4 system messages
>
> - Play around with both batteries removed, popping them in and out,
>tapping Reset until you get a Diagnostic Screen. This is different that
>the connection/debug screen, as it includes a lot of menu choices for
>service techs; also has an option (which is disabled) to turn on
>"deferred recognition" which didn't make it until OS 1.3 (pre-OS 1.3)
>
> - Do an Assist on the phrase "schedule happy hour Friday" (with the
>Getting Started card installed). You'll get the following Who: Apple
>Assurance, When: (the next Fri.), Where: Apple Assurance, Subject:
>Schedule (MP110 only?)
>
> - Hold your pen on the clock in the lower left hand corner of the
>screen, keep holding it there it will then display the temperature
>(pre-OS 1.3 only)
>
> - Hit the reset button in the battery compartment, then turn the Newt
>on. Tap Undo, and an error message ("There is nothing to undo")
>appears. Tap the Overview button, and you'll see two error messages that
>say "Newton." Tap on the first one. It will say "Welcome to Newton."
>Now tap the Information sign in that box. The date and time displayed
>are supposedly the first human landing on the moon. (7/29/69, 2:35 am).
>Supposedly the first step on moon was 10:56:15 p.m. EDT.
>
> - On the German version the date is the date for the fall of the Berlin
>Wall 11/9/1989, 21:00 (pre-OS 1.3 only)
>
> - On the French version the date is the date for D-Day 6/6/44, 10:00
>
>- Open Dates, click the upper left-hand corner, above the first letter
>in the name of the day, the phase of the moon should appear. Tap twice
>and it will stay on-screen longer.
>
> - Clicking the version number of the Memory Preference shows the programme=
rs
>
> - There is a secret font called "Espy". To get it, do an Assist on the
>phrase "Remember toothpaste"; "Toothpaste" will be entered in the ToDo
>list. The font used is the secret font. Copy the word "Toothpaste" to a
>note, while it is still selected, type "Espy". When you want to use this
>font, select some text and move it to the right of "Espy".
>
>
>
>NewtOS 2.x Easter Eggs (from various sources, some do not work with the eMa=
te)
>
> - In Time Zones (including a world map) there is an entry for Area 51
>(secret US Air Force test base, not on many maps, called Groom Lake on
>maps). If you pick Area 51 as your locale, the icons in Dates take on an
>alien theme. Meetings are represented by a person facing an alien, an
>Event is a flying saucer, a To-Do is a robot. Allegedly the CIA
>complained to Apple, but the ROM was "Golden" so the Area 51 was hidden
>by a software patch. To get the Easter egg back: open the Extras
>drawer, switch the folder of the Extras drawer to Storage, tap on the
>icon Time Zones and tap Delete (warning, any cities added will be lost)
> Now look in Time Zones Area 51 is on the map.
>
> - On the MP 130, you will not see "Area 51", but instead you will see
>either "Groom Lake" or "Dreamland".
>
> - Do an Assist on the phrase "Egg Freckles" (without quotes; OS 2.0
>only but I think there's an enabler for OS 2.1 Newts, It will display a
>screen with a Doonesberry panel, where Mike Doonesberry is holding a
>Newton with a caption saying "Egg Freckles?". )
>
> - Write "Rosetta! Rosetta! Rosetta!" (without quotes) using the printed
>recognizer. ("Rosetta! Rosetta! Hey, that's me!" appears, doesn't work
>on eMate)
>
> - Tap two times rapidly in the get info box of a Newton book. Then tap
>the close box. (it will show text "I only ask for information -
>Copperfield" and a small picture of a Newt writing on a Newton)
>
> - In Time Zones click in the ocean or somewhere far away from
>civilization ("middle of nowhere")
>
> - In Time Zones click where the Titanic sank (mid-Atlantic)
>
> - In Time Zones Mt. Everest is listed as a city (MP130 only?)
>
> - Do an Assist on the phrase "neat bong" and a list of Newton
>development team members appears (without quotes; OS 2.0 only)
>
> - In Dates open Prefs under the Info button. In Prefs tap in the 3
>other corners than the corner with the close box. The title of the Dates
>Pref changes to programmers names "Scott Jensen", "Fred Tou", "Jeremy Wyld"
>
> - There is an eclipse Easter egg that shows on dates where there is an
>eclipse somewhere in the world. There was an eclipse on Oct. 24, 1995.
>Supposedly only 10 years' worth were programmed in.
>
> - There are 2 card games - Poker and some other card game (Patience).
>There are several software packages to show these apps. You can also
>make a direct NewtonScript call through Works to get the poker game:
>make a new spreadsheet, enter a new cell with the following content
>(without quotes) "=3DbuildContext(@830):open()", then, tap the checkmark
>button. You can get the other card game the same way, with the call of:
>"=3DbuildContext(@831):open()"
>
> - Write any of the following three times without quotes, the last of
>the threee you write changes to what is in parenthesis: "larryy" (Good
>Worker) [this means "larryy larryy larryy" becomes "larryy larryy Good
>Worker", "Brandyn" or "lesv" (angel), "stafford" or "lyon" (Richard) (OS
>2.0 only)
>
> - Write any of the following three times (without quotes): "larryy"
>(The Doctor is on), "Brandyn" (brandyn_at_brainstorm.com), "lesv" (fishing
>rod), "lyon" (Richard), "stafford" (bill) (OS 2.1 only)
>
> - In the Map and Time Zones you'll fine two towns: "Newton, Iowa" (home
>of Maytag) and "Newtonmore" in the UK.
>
> - In Time Zone, tap on opposite corners of the Time Zones slip. The
>farthest city in the world from your location will be selected.
>
> - If you keep the pen pressed down 1/4" from the left side of the
>screen, about halfway down, when booting up, the Newton will ask if you
>want to bypass installscripts, effectively booting with all packages
>frozen.
>
> - Perform an Assist on the phrase "About Newton" (without quotes; the
>Assist dialog box asks "What about Newton?" then runs through
>programmers names "What about roger?" "What about Ed?", even asks things
>like "What about jerk?"
>
> - Tap the Assist icon, tap the Please popup, one of the choices may be
>"tell me a joke" - however tapping Do or How Do I? buttons has no effect
>(OS 2.1 only)
>
> - Open the Clock, tap on Set -> Minute Timer, set the time to one
>minute;close the clock and re-open it, tap Set -> Minute Timer again -
>the clock will tick the seconds until you close the clock or the timer
>goes off.
>
> - The tones generated with taps of the pen on the Newton 2.0 are not
>random, they make a short song. The best way to try this is to make a
>check list in Notes and then check and uncheck the check box.The notes
>for the Newton song are according to the C major scale (a little bit
>higher than normal scale)...
> E C C F G D E D G F G C A D G G C
> 3 1 1 4 5 2 3 2 5 4 5 1 6 2 5 5 1
> The best reference I could find says it's the OSCAR Mayer Theme Song.
>
>
>
>Mark Rollins
>mark_at_mrollins.com
>www.mrollins.com
The James Elliott Newton Site
http://www.geocities.com/rootbeeraddict/newton.html
Is that a Newton in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
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