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The trigger sequence was found. It’s different between 1.xx and 1.01. From BetaWiki:

> The sequence for triggering the feature depends on the version:

> 1.xx: Press Alt+Shift+Esc+Enter

> 1.01 and later: Hold Alt and then Esc, release Alt and then Esc, press Esc twice and then press Backspace.

1.xx was a slightly prerelease version shipped with the Tulip System PC Compact. I don’t know if anyone has looked in DR5, or the alpha or beta versions that have been preserved.

There’s a similar egg in 2.x. Also from BetaWiki:

> To trigger this easter egg, you must press F1, F5, F9, F4, and Backspace in quick succession.

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The first time I realized the danger of Easter eggs was one that was triggered by Alt+Ctrl+Shift+PERIOD or some such. Tested it out and sure enough it would paste an email exchange about needing to add an easter egg into a comment field.

Then I was demoing the software to leadership in a surprise visit, and it triggered. Turns out, I'd ORed the keys together! I tried to Ctrl-A+DEL but... the email was longer than the comment field and triggered a state in which any keypress was rejected with an alert, even one that would shorten the comment (bug #2). And I couldn't leave the form, as the early prototype was designed to save-on-exit. So I had to kill the app... lesson learned.

My last easter egg was simply the name of "Lightish Red" for one of the AI colors in Halo Infinite. Much safer (once it got through localization, hah).

I wonder how many Halo infinite players will know the origins of lightish red going back to Halo CE, specifically the RvB web series. I've been out of the video game trend loop since Halo 2, and am not sure if the modern attention span of a few months at best enables 10+ year old easter eggs like that to be understood. I certainly appreciate it, but I also will probably never play Infinite.

definitely try out infinite. I grew up on traditional Boomer shooters like quake and Duke nukem and even Halo. This is the first new game I've played in more than a decade that really scratches that itch for me. Plus it's free so you have no excuse not to pick it up and play

>(once it got through localization, hah).

i can imagine that passed with flying colors

I believe that is a fair translation of the actual Chinese word for pink!

You are the dev that added Lightish Red?

I want you to know that the reddit halo community loves you.

A link with all the triggers to the respective versions was posted down the twitter thread: https://pastebin.com/raw/FruE3GRX

I found a VM titled "Windows 1.0 Premiere Edition", both sequences do nothing. I couldn't find any "About" window to tell me the exact Windows version, though.

Was the trigger sequence found by analyzing assembly, or did someone actually manage to trigger it in the wild?

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