HEY! Can someone help me find the Excel "Hall of Tortured Souls" secret? Please help!

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Kf6 posted 09-16-99 12:16 AM ET
I heard that forMicrosoft Excel (was it 97? I think it was) there's a hidden secret where you can do some stuff and you go into a "quake like" first person view and if you make it all the way across you see a "hall of tortured souls" with bill gates as the devil or soemthing! I heard about this awhile ago but forgot how you are supposed to see it! So if anyone knows of this please give me the directions because I'd love to see this for myself, thanks!
PS I posted this in non-smac related but that place seems completely dead and no one replied, so if anyone could help me in here I'd be infinitely grateful!
laurens posted 09-16-99 03:09 AM ET
I completed the stupid hall before, but unfortunately I didn't know how to get back again - something at the tab 50 column ...
Whatever is the case, I would advise you not to waste your time finding it coz you will be thoroughly disappointed -
Firstly,
the graphics not like Quake, but rather, pre-Doom graphics.
Secondly, you don't get any devils in the end. Just some pictures of the MS working team (of course bill gates included) pasted on the wall. I remember me and my sis crying foul that time when we saw those portraits

Roland posted 09-16-99 07:22 AM ET
Go to
http://www.tenet-computers.com/newpage1.htm
It's incredibly ridiculous.
laurens posted 09-16-99 10:45 AM ET
You are right on that, Roland!
Cheers
Roland posted 09-16-99 11:28 AM ET
Cheers!
One more reason to hate msft. Ballooning up programs fur such crap....
Kf6 posted 09-16-99 04:09 PM ET
Thank you all very much for your help. I don't have excel 97 on this computer, but the computer I use in my grade 11 infopro class DOES have it, so I'll try it tomorrow on there, and hopefully, NOT freak out my teacher in the process =)
epocat posted 09-17-99 12:55 PM ET
I think it is Office 95 the one that does it.
SMACTrek posted 09-17-99 02:17 PM ET
I have Excel 97. The instructions worked. It's a little bit like Descent without guns. And with difficult controls..
White_Cat posted 09-17-99 03:57 PM ET
The flight simulator worked for me, but the Hall of Tortured Souls didn't.
Does anyone have a quantitative measure of how many resources these easter eggs take up? I remember some people getting upset over system resourses being wasted by the Win95 clouds one, and PC Magazine checking it out and determining that it took about 30 KB of disk space and 8 bytes of memory.
Spider posted 09-20-99 11:10 AM ET
Hall of tortured souls is only in Excel 95. Kind of a drag, no?
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Author	Topic: HEY! Can someone help me find the Excel "Hall of Tortured Souls" secret? Please help!
Kf6	posted 09-16-99 12:16 AM ET I heard that forMicrosoft Excel (was it 97? I think it was) there's a hidden secret where you can do some stuff and you go into a "quake like" first person view and if you make it all the way across you see a "hall of tortured souls" with bill gates as the devil or soemthing! I heard about this awhile ago but forgot how you are supposed to see it! So if anyone knows of this please give me the directions because I'd love to see this for myself, thanks! PS I posted this in non-smac related but that place seems completely dead and no one replied, so if anyone could help me in here I'd be infinitely grateful!
laurens	posted 09-16-99 03:09 AM ET I completed the stupid hall before, but unfortunately I didn't know how to get back again - something at the tab 50 column ... Whatever is the case, I would advise you not to waste your time finding it coz you will be thoroughly disappointed - Firstly, the graphics not like Quake, but rather, pre-Doom graphics. Secondly, you don't get any devils in the end. Just some pictures of the MS working team (of course bill gates included) pasted on the wall. I remember me and my sis crying foul that time when we saw those portraits
Roland	posted 09-16-99 07:22 AM ET Go to http://www.tenet-computers.com/newpage1.htm It's incredibly ridiculous.
laurens	posted 09-16-99 10:45 AM ET You are right on that, Roland! Cheers
Roland	posted 09-16-99 11:28 AM ET Cheers! One more reason to hate msft. Ballooning up programs fur such crap....
Kf6	posted 09-16-99 04:09 PM ET Thank you all very much for your help. I don't have excel 97 on this computer, but the computer I use in my grade 11 infopro class DOES have it, so I'll try it tomorrow on there, and hopefully, NOT freak out my teacher in the process =)
epocat	posted 09-17-99 12:55 PM ET I think it is Office 95 the one that does it.
SMACTrek	posted 09-17-99 02:17 PM ET I have Excel 97. The instructions worked. It's a little bit like Descent without guns. And with difficult controls..
White_Cat	posted 09-17-99 03:57 PM ET The flight simulator worked for me, but the Hall of Tortured Souls didn't. Does anyone have a quantitative measure of how many resources these easter eggs take up? I remember some people getting upset over system resourses being wasted by the Win95 clouds one, and PC Magazine checking it out and determining that it took about 30 KB of disk space and 8 bytes of memory.
Spider	posted 09-20-99 11:10 AM ET Hall of tortured souls is only in Excel 95. Kind of a drag, no?