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If you’ve ever seen Jurassic Park, you know the scene. Samuel L. Jackson’s character sits down to undo Dennis Nedry’s sabotage, only to be met with the ultimate trolling animation: a looping clip of Nedry wagging his finger, smugly reminding you that you “didn’t say the magic word.”
This is that animation. Over and over.
What is this?
Nedry is a small application for classic Mac OS (pre-OS 9) that does one thing: it plays the infamous “Ah Ah Ah! You didn’t say the magic word!” animation from Jurassic Park on an endless loop. That’s it. No fancy features. No deep functionality.
Why?
Because it’s funny. Because it doesn’t already exist. Also, because I wanted an excuse to write code for old-school Mac OS using Metrowerks CodeWarrior Professional 4. This is my first real attempt at targeting classic Macintosh systems, and what better way to start than with something completely ridiculous?
How it Works
The code is dead simple. The core logic lives in Nedry.c, and the animation is loaded from Nedry.rsrc, since everything in classic Mac OS needs a resource fork. QuickTime is required to run the animation, and the installer will refuse to proceed if QuickTime isn’t present.
If you want to see it in action, grab the NedryInstaller.sit file from the repo, decompress it, and install. It will set up a folder containing the Nedry application and the QuickTime video. Launch the app, sit back, and let Nedry remind you, over and over, that you didn’t say the magic word.
Screenshots
The application running:
And of course, it comes with a classic “About” dialog in the Apple menu:
Where to Get It
This blog has it installed. Go over to the System 7 version of this site and find it in the Macintosh HD.
If you want it on your mac, everything you need is in the Nedry GitHub repository. The source is there if you want to poke around, but honestly, there’s not much to it—just a fun little relic of 90s computing nostalgia.