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After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM | Developer solves mystery of hidden JPEG from the beige G3 era.
Developer solves mystery of hidden JPEG from the beige G3 era.
On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could figure out how to display for 27 years. After extracting and disassembling the code using Ghidra, he discovered that the SCSI Manager was checking for a RAM disk volume named "secret ROM image." He also shared behind-the-scenes details in another comment, noting that his "bunch of ragtag engineers" developed the successful G3 line as a skunk works project, with hardware that Jobs later turned into the groundbreaking iMac series of computers.
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