xyzzy
The {canonical } "magic word " from the {ADVENT }
adventure game , in which the idea is to explore an underground
cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find
there . If you type "xyzzy " at the appropriate time , you can
move instantly between two otherwise distant points . If ,
therefore , you encounter some bit of {magic }, you might remark
on this quite succinctly by saying simply "Xyzzy !"
Ordinarily you can 't look at someone else 's screen if he has
protected it , but if you type quadruple -bucky -clear the system
will let you do it anyway ." "Xyzzy !" Xyzzy has actually been
implemented as an undocumented no -op command on several OSes ;
in Data General 's AOS /VS , for example , it would typically
respond "Nothing happens ", just as {ADVENT } did if the magic
was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed
the action that enabled the word . In more recent 32 bit
versions , by the way , AOS /VS responds "Twice as much happens ".
See also {plugh }.
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adj . [
from the ADVENT game ]
The canonical ‘
magic word ’.
This comes from ADVENT ,
in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there .
If you type xyzzy at the appropriate time ,
you can move instantly between two otherwise distant points .
If ,
therefore ,
you encounter some bit of magic ,
you might remark on this quite succinctly by saying simply “
Xyzzy !”
“
Ordinarily you can '
t look at someone else '
s screen if he has protected it ,
but if you type quadruple -
bucky -
clear the system will let you do it anyway .” “
Xyzzy !”
It '
s traditional for xyzzy to be an Easter egg in games with text interfaces .
Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no -
op command on several OSes ;
in Data General '
s AOS /
VS ,
for example ,
it would typically respond “
Nothing happens ”,
just as ADVENT did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word .
In more recent 32 -
bit versions ,
by the way ,
AOS /
VS responds “
Twice as much happens ”.
Early versions of the popular ‘
minesweeper ’
game under Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by the command ‘
xyzzy <
enter ><
right -
shift >’
that turns the top -
left pixel of the screen different colors depending on whether or not the cursor is over a bomb .
This feature temporarily disappeared in Windows 98 ,
but reappeared in Windows 2000 .
The following passage from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L .
Frank Baum ,
suggesting a possible pre -
ADVENT origin ,
has recently come to light : “
Ziz -
zy ,
zuz -
zy ,
zik !”
said Dorothy ,
who was now standing on both feet .
This ended the saying of the charm ,
and they heard a great chattering and flapping of wings ,
as the band of Winged Monkeys flew up to them .
The text can be viewed at Project Gutenberg .
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