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[Dark Black]

Yep - we had a nice star-wars scrolly thing with the credits if you typed a magic string into the search box.

I did something very similar (but using a key combination to launch it) about ten years ago - when I went back to the same client a few years later, it was still in and subsequent developers had added themselves to the credits.. which was nice

[Bunk]

That's what I get for stopping half way through a post and coming back to 5 mins later.

That's alright

I knew full well what it was, I just couldn't for the life of me figure out what it unlocked in our app

[DaveB]

What we both said

That's what I get for stopping half way through a post and coming back to 5 mins later.

[Bunk]

No, it was definitely an easter egg. It refers to this but I just can't remember what the point of it was.

It's the "Konami Code"

Became famous as the cheat code in Konami console games and has been used in loads of places since as the unlock code for easter eggs.

What we both said

[DaveB]

I once found some code in an application that I was working on that checked for the keypresses "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A"

Can't remember what it did though.

It's the "Konami Code"

Became famous as the cheat code in Konami console games and has been used in loads of places since as the unlock code for easter eggs.

[EternalOptimist]

Yep - we had a nice star-wars scrolly thing with the credits if you typed a magic string into the search box.

brilliant.

i am starting on that right now. brill

oh yes.

[mudskipper]

Yep - we had a nice star-wars scrolly thing with the credits if you typed a magic string into the search box.

[Spacecadet]

I once found some code in an application that I was working on that checked for the keypresses "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A"

Can't remember what it did though.

It bypasses the presidential launch codes and negates the need for simultaneous key turns

[EternalOptimist]

Yes, but even more sophisticated than that and it is designed to be picked out from the crowd. I can’t say more because I don’t want the idea copied.

ooh. you little tease

[Bunk]

I have a lot of dev diagnostics, which are supposed to come out in production, but never do.
Data initialisation and such, or error forcing
it might have been something like that, something scary

No, it was definitely an easter egg. It refers to this but I just can't remember what the point of it was.

[Paddy]

Do you ever put easter eggs into your applications ?

I do. I always put a left right left click on one of the controls of the 'about' screen.

usually some vitriol about the project, sometimes a little game, depending how much time i have left over

take THAT , project managers

Yes, but even more sophisticated than that and it is designed to be picked out from the crowd. I can’t say more because I don’t want the idea copied.

[manclarky]

Do you ever put easter eggs into your applications ?

Many (many - may have been uni years) years ago, I was sent a link to try in Excel which worked.
I can't remember it, but it involved a few page downs on the 3rd tab "type of thing", then some <CTRL> "X" or something in a certain cell.
Upon doing this, a "room" opened, that had all the developers names on the wall - was quite cool (well, to a 2nd year student it was).

[EternalOptimist]

I once found some code in an application that I was working on that checked for the keypresses "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A"

Can't remember what it did though.

I have a lot of dev diagnostics, which are supposed to come out in production, but never do.
Data initialisation and such, or error forcing
it might have been something like that, something scary

[Bunk]

I once found some code in an application that I was working on that checked for the keypresses "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A"

Can't remember what it did though.

[FiveTimes]

billy butler, aye

i used to have a liking for that bird as well, what was her name. debbie something

I only remember Wally, but then I only used to listen to it when visiting grandparents.