OT: Easter egg image uncovered in Power Mac G3 ROM after 27 years
My apologies for the offtopic post. I thought some folks might be
interested in this.
>From "Easter egg image uncovered in Power Mac G3 ROM after 27 years,"
<https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/28/easter-egg-image-uncovered-in-power-mac-g3-rom-after-27-years>:
... Doug Brown, who maintains a blog that documents his experiments
and research into older computers, said that he accidentally
discovered the Easter egg while looking through resources in the Power
Mac G3's ROM. This model was made by Apple between November 1997 and
August 1999.
The same ROM was used for the minitower, all-in-one, and beige desktop
models. Brown said he was spending "a lazy Sunday" using a pair of
tools called ROM Fiend and Hex Fiend to look through the G3's ROM
resources.
He shortly spotted two undocumented anomalies. The first was a
resource of type HPOE that contained a JPEG image. This had been
documented in 2014 by another ROM researcher, Pierre Dandumont — but
that discovery did not reveal what the JPEG file would show if
extracted.
The second, discovered by Brown, was a nitt resource with ID 43, named
"Native 4.3." This turned out to be the PowerPC-native SCSI Manager
4.3 code. The SCSI manager was expected and routine, but Brown noticed
at the very end of the data some unexpected Pascal strings...
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