Invoke the About box with Help | About..., then hold down Alt whilst typing TEAM. This produces a transparent window overlaid across the working area of the screen with a message in a big font announcing that Borland Rules! You can dismiss this transparent window using a button below the message whose caption reads Okay, I understand.
However 5 seconds after invoking the Egg an extra button surreptitiously appears on the bottom left side of the screen with a caption of Team and a label appears on the bottom right with a caption of Best Delphi Ever.
Clicking the Best Delphi Ever label (be careful to click the actual text of the label) shows that Delphi 2005 has everything, including the kitchen sink:
Apparently this sink belongs to the mother of Corbin Dunn (the author of this entire Easter Egg), who lives in Hawaii
Pressing the Team button initiates the fun part – the simplistic shoot ‘em up game. The names of the entire Delphi 2005 for .NET team drop slowly from the top of the screen at random horizontal positions and you can control a base ship (represented as a PC) at the bottom of the screen using the left and right cursor keys. The space bar fires a bullet (a nicely wrapped Easter Egg) up the screen and if you hit a team member’s name you get 10 points (your score is displayed at the top right of the screen).
There are some names in particular you should aim for in order to get a special response:
- Corbin - shows Corbin Dunn astride a large frog:
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Corbin Dunn - launches two web pages, a unicycling page at http://www.unicyclist.com and Corbin's web site at http://www.corbinstreehouse.com
- Lucas Banter - shows a picture of Lucas, one of Corbin's Delphi
support colleagues at http://www.bluetreesoft.com/wallpapers/gala/dscf0006.jpg:
- Stephen Blas - shows a picture of Stephen, one of Corbin's Delphi
support colleagues at http://www.bluetreesoft.com/wallpapers/ssb/dscf0013.jpg:
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Hello World and Word Up - get both of these in a single session of the game and a new, captionless menu item is added to Delphi's main menu (shown highlighted here).
Selecting this menu item (after dismissing the transparent form with the Okay, I understand button) shows the Delphi Team group photo:
You can also access the Team Photo by adding a new toolbutton to one of the toolbars. When the menu has been activated, right-click on a toolbar and choose Customize. On the Commands tab select All Commands from the Categories list. Scroll to the bottom of the Commands list and select the last (blank) command. You can now drag this command to a toolbar and, when the Customize dialog is closed, this new toolbutton will invoke the Team photo. Note that this new button will be saved between IDE sessions, but will be ineffective next time you start the IDE