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The Undocumented
Pilot Page
Easter Eggs: Animated Car (Taxi)
Apparently this Easter Egg only works on the old Pilots (1000,5000 models).
In the Memo application, sometimes a car will drive across the screen. It goes from right to left and trails small clouds of smoke. It's supposed to be time related.
Matt Peterson, has a screen shot on his web site.
Dale Gass managed to fully document the "Taxi", and even write an application to predict its appearance. The documentation with his program tells 3 ways to make it happen. Here's an excerpt on the easiest way:
Set the date to before February 1st, 1996. (I use January 31st, 1996.) (Please note that when you set the clock forward again, all of your old alarms will go off! You might want to purge all past alarms, or have a paperclip ready for a soft-reset to avoid the alarm backlog...)
Go into the memo pad, entering a new memo (or any application which has a nilEvent; any application which updates things every second is a likely candidate). Now, hold down the PageDown key, and make a stroke from the middle of the graffiti area, going left to the far left of the display (right to the edge). The car will then zoom across. (This is a heretofore undocumented way of getting it; probably a "test mode" used by the developers.)
In the memopad, holding the page-down can cause the app to scroll to other memos; one way to avoid this is to push page-down *after* starting the graffiti stroke. That is, pen down, push and hold page-down, drag pen to far left.)
Get the full documentation and application at Adam's Software Archive.
Send feedback to Mitch Ross at
mitchr@bright.net
