"Hall of Tortured Souls"... hidden DOOM within Excel 95
Kristian Poe
If you are using Excel for 95, there is a little hidden game you can play...
- Open Excel with a blank worksheet.
- Go down to the 95th row
- Tab over to column 'B'
- Goto Help/About
- hold down ctrl-alt-shift and click on tech support
You should now see a new window that pops up titled "Hall of Tortured Souls"
Here is a layout of the room:
ramp to view names (straight ahead)
-----||------
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
------X-----
starting place
One more little fancy:
- if you do a 180, you will be facing the starting place wall
- type "excelkfa".. the wall will open, sounds sorta familiar eh?
- if you can walk down the narrow walkway you can see the pics of
the "tortured souls"
Have fun!
kp.....
Kristian Poe
In article <43v78c$8...@ceylon.gte.com>, kristi...@telops.gte.com says...
>
>Just found out bout this one...
>
>If you are using Excel for 95, there is a little hidden game you can play...
>
>- Open Excel with a blank worksheet.
>- Go down to the 95th row
- highlight the entire 95th row (woops)..
Horrock
ada...@bsd.meddean.luc.edu
>
>- Open Excel with a blank worksheet.
>- Go down to the 95th row
>- Goto Help/About
>- hold down ctrl-alt-shift and click on tech support
>
>You should now see a new window that pops up titled "Hall of Tortured Souls"
>
>Here is a layout of the room:
>
> ramp to view names (straight ahead)
> -----||------
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> ------X-----
> starting place
>
>One more little fancy:
> - if you do a 180, you will be facing the starting place wall
> - type "excelkfa".. the wall will open, sounds sorta familiar eh?
> - if you can walk down the narrow walkway you can see the pics of
> the "tortured souls"
One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't get fixed
while the programmers were putting in this lovely special effect.
// Al Davis Power Computing with OS/2 //
// If You Go There Today, You'll Find OS/2 //
Kevin J. Maroney
>>If you are using Excel for 95, there is a little hidden game you can play...
[Easter Egg described]
>
>One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't get fixed
>while the programmers were putting in this lovely special effect.
Probably none. Programmers do Easter Eggs to keep themselves from
going insane working non-stop on boring programs and to give
themselves some sense of ownership of and pride in their work.
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Phil Payne
ke...@crossover.com "Kevin J. Maroney" writes:
> ada...@bsd.meddean.luc.edu wrote:
>> One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't
>> get fixed ...
> Probably none.
Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
press ENTER.
No calculations required. What You See Is What You Get - this is not a
display bug. How many numbers have you typed into Excel recently?
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richard
>In article <9197cb$e301...@news.crossover.com>
> ke...@crossover.com "Kevin J. Maroney" writes:
>
>> ada...@bsd.meddean.luc.edu wrote:
>
>>> One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't
>>> get fixed ...
>
>> Probably none.
>
>Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
>press ENTER.
>
>No calculations required. What You See Is What You Get - this is not a
>display bug. How many numbers have you typed into Excel recently?
you mean that 1.40737488355328 does not equal 0.64??????????
Neil Polo
>In article <9197cb$e301...@news.crossover.com>
> ke...@crossover.com "Kevin J. Maroney" writes:
>> ada...@bsd.meddean.luc.edu wrote:
>>> One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't
>>> get fixed ...
>> Probably none.
>Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
>press ENTER.
>No calculations required. What You See Is What You Get - this is not a
>display bug. How many numbers have you typed into Excel recently?
Interesting effect <g>. Any idea why?
Regards,
Neil
"Its not enough to do well . . .
. . . others must do poorly!."
marc hoffman
>One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't get fixed
>
>// If You Go There Today, You'll Find OS/2 //
you know...once in a while i just can't keep myself from wondering just what the FUCK you are doing in
this newsgroup.
pardon my french if you an religous man :)
marc
Gary Price
>>One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't get fixed
>>while the programmers were putting in this lovely special effect.
>>
>>// Al Davis Power Computing with OS/2 //
>>// If You Go There Today, You'll Find OS/2 //
>
>you know...once in a while i just can't keep myself from wondering just what the FUCK you are doing in
>this newsgroup.
Perhaps it's because there are so few OS/2 apps that he has nothing
better to do than bug other people :)
I'm also pissed with all of these OS/2 related articles. If I wanted to
read about OS/2, I'd change groups.
This is group is big and heavy enough as it is without superflous stuff
being shoved in it.
marc hoffman
>
>ma...@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (marc hoffman) wrote:
>
>>>One has to wonder...which bugs/flaws in either Excel95 or Win95 didn't get fixed
>>>while the programmers were putting in this lovely special effect.
>>>
>>>// Al Davis Power Computing with OS/2 //
>>>// If You Go There Today, You'll Find OS/2 //
>>
>>you know...once in a while i just can't keep myself from wondering just what the FUCK you are doing
in
>>this newsgroup.
>
>Perhaps it's because there are so few OS/2 apps that he has nothing
>better to do than bug other people :)
hmm. that's probably it. poor tortured souls, these OS/half guys... :)
>This is group is big and heavy enough as it is without superflous stuff
>being shoved in it.
say that again. from yesterday evebing to this morning: 772 new articles. thanks god i'm reading
online and don't have to leech all of this "os/half is better" crap over a modem :)
cu
marc
John English
>press ENTER.
Hmm. Interesting. I'm reading this via Telnet from a Mac at work, and
Excel for the Mac says 0.64. A genuine cross-platform bug. I notice that
removing or changing the last digit "cures" the problem, so what I'm
wondering is how this "feature" was discovered?
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Paul Schopf
>On Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:10:47 GMT, Phil Payne <Ph...@sievers.com> wrote:
>>Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
>>press ENTER.
>
>Hmm. Interesting. I'm reading this via Telnet from a Mac at work, and
>Excel for the Mac says 0.64. A genuine cross-platform bug. I notice that
>removing or changing the last digit "cures" the problem, so what I'm
>wondering is how this "feature" was discovered?
>
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Gary Price
>On Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:10:47 GMT, Phil Payne <Ph...@sievers.com> wrote:
>>Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
>>press ENTER.
>
>Hmm. Interesting. I'm reading this via Telnet from a Mac at work, and
>Excel for the Mac says 0.64. A genuine cross-platform bug. I notice that
>removing or changing the last digit "cures" the problem, so what I'm
>wondering is how this "feature" was discovered?
So that puts paid to blaming the Pentium math bug (a chip of which I am
still in possession) :)
I'd also love to know how it was discovered - I'd be inclined to think
that the source is Microsoft though. This number is just as obscure as
getting the Easter Egg in Win95 (which I also think was leaked!) :)
ada...@bsd.meddean.luc.edu
>>>>while the programmers were putting in this lovely special effect.
>>>>
>>>>// Al Davis Power Computing with OS/2 //
>>>>// If You Go There Today, You'll Find OS/2 //
>>>
>>>you know...once in a while i just can't keep myself from wondering just what the FUCK you are doing
>in
>>>this newsgroup.
>>
>>Perhaps it's because there are so few OS/2 apps that he has nothing
>>better to do than bug other people :)
Actually, it's just that my efficiency is so much higher than you poor deluded
windows users can concieve of that I have the time to occasionally pop over here
and see you get all defensive. It's a good way to get a laugh during a break.
// Al Davis Power Computing with OS/2 //
// Win95 - Preemptively Challenged, Object //
// Disoriented, Interface Impaired //
Simon Slavin
> Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
> press ENTER.
If you then use Excel to draw a graph/chart using that cell,
does it use the 1.4 figure or the 0.64 one ? Sorry, I have no
Excel at the moment but am trying to work out where the bug is.
Simon.
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Murray Morris
>Actually, it's just that my efficiency is so much higher than you poor deluded
>windows users can concieve of that I have the time to occasionally pop over here
>and see you get all defensive. It's a good way to get a laugh during a break.
Actually, it seems more like you have no life so have to berate others
since you have nothing better to do with yourself. So you don't like
Windows. I doubt anybody here cares.
Murray Morris
mmo...@oz.net
Simon H. Garlick
>>>Perhaps it's because there are so few OS/2 apps that he has nothing
>>>better to do than bug other people :)
>Actually, it's just that my efficiency is so much higher than you poor deluded
>windows users can concieve of that I have the time to occasionally pop over here
>and see you get all defensive. It's a good way to get a laugh during a break.
>// Al Davis Power Computing with OS/2 //
>// Win95 - Preemptively Challenged, Object //
>// Disoriented, Interface Impaired //
Just a suggestion, but maybe you could use your breaks more productively. For
example, you could use the time to learn how to spell and construct sentences...
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Iskandar Taib
Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin <wa...@blarg.net> wrote:
>j...@bton.ac.uk (John English) wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:10:47 GMT, Phil Payne <Ph...@sievers.com> wrote:
>>>Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
>>>press ENTER.
>
>>Excel for the Mac says 0.64. A genuine cross-platform bug. I notice that
>>removing or changing the last digit "cures" the problem, so what I'm
>>wondering is how this "feature" was discovered?
>
>
>(I'm fairly certain that the value given isn't e, or sqrt(2), or
>anything common like that.)
Probably used a bunch of recursive macros to test functions. I'd be
surprised if MS doesn't use that method for testing.
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richard
Taib) wrote:
>In article <44fkb3$5...@guysmiley.blarg.net>,
>Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin <wa...@blarg.net> wrote:
>>j...@bton.ac.uk (John English) wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:10:47 GMT, Phil Payne <Ph...@sievers.com> wrote:
>>>>Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
>>>>press ENTER.
Apparently it's not a bug, it's a feature. ms did it intentionally to
catch anyone who steals the excel code. Similar to map makers putting
a non-existant small town on their maps - if your map includes the
small town, you must have copied their map.
Randy Spangler
>Really? Open a spreadsheet with Excel, type in 1.40737488355328, and
>press ENTER.
Has anyone tried DIALING this? (407) is a Florida area code, so I'm
not gonna try myself, but I'd be curious to know if it actually is
somebody relevant...
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