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Easter Egg in Geany or other programs?
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:12 am
by MochiMoppel
When examining Geany's binary file I stumbled upon some strange ASCII content that looks like part of a game (see screenshot). A game in Geany?
It's an easter egg that is supposed to start when opening the "About" dialog and - as far as I understand - clicking the Geany icon.
Here a bug report that contains an attached screenshot of version 0.18
I found another Japanese page with screenshot of version 0.19, where the images used for the game are corrected.
These are old Geany versions, but binaries still contain the game description, so they may as well contain the game.
Did anybody crack the egg?
Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:43 am
by Grey
Well, there are games in emacs editor, why shouldn't they be in Geany? (ᵔᴥᵔ)
I just typed "about:mozilla" in fresh Firefox 88.0:
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It reminded me of Battle City, a good old Japanese game for Famicom/NES. There is such a difficult Easter Egg, but about love(apparently the programmer loved Noriko):
At the title screen, select "CONSTRUCTION" on the menu. Press Start on Controller 1 to enter the mode, then press it again to return back to the title screen. Repeat this seven times. After the seventh enter-and-exit, hold Down on Controller 1 and press A eight times on Controller 2. Finally, hold Right on Controller 1 and press B 12 times on Controller 2.
After all of this, press Start on Controller 1 to activate a secret message from a programmer with a little animation.
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Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:41 pm
by JakeSFR
MochiMoppel" wrote:Did anybody crack the egg?
I had to peek into the source to figure it out - just type geany.
It's a different game now, though (in v1.36).
Greetings!
Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:26 pm
by Grey
Yes, JakeSFR is absolutely right. I poked around libgeany.so.0.0.0 with the same result. I would even suggest organizing a competition to see who gets the most points ... but mouse control, so I don't want to 
With the About window open, type the word 'geany' on the keyboard:
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Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:32 pm
by rockedge
in a stock Tahr 6.0.5
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Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:50 pm
by Grey
Geany version (new 1.37.1 Wolbam) for Fossapup in which you need to type NOT "geany", but "puppy". Purely for fun.
viewtopic.php?p=24189#p24189
Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 9:18 am
by greengeek
Grey wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:43 am
Well, there are games in emacs editor, why shouldn't they be in Geany? (ᵔᴥᵔ)
I just typed "about:mozilla" in fresh Firefox 88.0:
Similar in Palemoon:
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Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 9:08 am
by GMBudwrench
In an older version of the Windows Spybot Search and Destroy, a malware detection program, there was a hidden game in its “about” menu category.
Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 9:10 am
by GMBudwrench
In Mozilla, there used to be other hidden gems like the about:Mozilla. But Mozilla removed them as the versions progressed. About:Robots was one of them.
Built-in game in Chromium
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 11:26 am
by Grey
Built-in game in Chromium 90.0.4430.212(Official Build, ungoogled-chromium). Enter chrome://dino/
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Oh no! I didn't mean him any harm, really...
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The robots are alive!
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:32 am
by Grey
GMBudwrench wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 9:10 am
In Mozilla, there used to be other hidden gems like the about:Mozilla. But Mozilla removed them as the versions progressed. About:Robots was one of them.
about:robots is still in effect in Firefox 92.0.1.
The famous phrase from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951) on the tab. Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
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And they still have a plan 
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Re: Easter Egg in Geany?
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:57 am
by snoring_cat
Wow! That is a cool Geany easter egg. The app mp-5 has Options > Play "Pipes", which is like an easter egg.
Some of the best easter eggs I like have to do with google.com. Check out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dXbC2xqNZg for some examples
Do a barrel roll....all time classic!
Re: Easter Egg in Geany or other programs?
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:33 am
by bigpup
I edited the subject of this topic, because it now seems to be giving info on other programs, not just Geany.