coveted Victor-brand rat trap modified to say "A-trap". A-trap is a reference to the Motorola 68000 A-trap exception mechanism which Apple used to great effect in the creation of Macintosh and provided the foundation for much of the hacking enjoyed by attendees. MacHack's small, informal ethic, and on-site coding challenges have been carried on by a number of conferences; for example, the C4 conference was explicitly created as an attempt to fill the void left by the end of MacHack. Conference mantras Sleep is for the weak and sickly Kill Dean's INITs It's all Jordan's fault Who makes the rules? MARKETING!!! 72 Hours Caffeine and Code Keynote notables Doug Clapp Scott Knaster Original Macintosh development team reunion: Andy Hertzfeld, Randy Wiggington, Daniel Kottke, Caroline Rose, Jef Raskin and Bill Atkinson - 2001 Scheduled to appear, but unable to attend: Guy 'Bud' Tribble, Bruce Horn John Warnock Cory Doctorow Eric Raymond - 2000 "open source sermon" Dave Winer Andy Ihnatko Steve Wozniak - 1997, 2001 Rob Malda Tim O'Reilly Ken Arnold Jordan Hubbard Ted Nelson (who may still be speaking in the Savoy Room) Notable hacks Incomplete list of 1987 hacks Animated Icon in Finder by Roy Leban HeapInit by Fritz Anderson SetPaths by Paul Snively The Best Hack Implemented in a Nonexistent Product by Darin Adler, Mitch Adler, Leonard Rosenthal, and Paul Snively. It was written using HyperCard, at the time an unreleased product codenamed WildCard. Best Power Hack by Mother Nature and NASA. A lightning strike unexpectedly launched three missiles. 1994 Best Hack 5th place: Metwowerks New & Improved, an addition to Metrowerks Code Warrior development environment. 4th place: Stargate arcade game emulation. 3rd place: NewTablet, which turns a Newton into a mouse replacement for a Macintosh. 2nd place: POArk, Pong Open Architecture; supports any number of players on different operating systems. 1st place and winner of the coveted A-Trap award: FEZ by Doug McKenna, demonstrates an advanced set of ZoomRect techniques. 1998 Best Hack 6th place: Switcher 98 5th place: Spotlight 4th place: Phaseshift 3rd place: 180 Years of Hack 2nd place: OFPong 1st place and winner of the coveted A-Trap award: asciiMac by Alexandra Ellwood and Miro Jurisic 1999 Best Hack 5th place: PatchMaker by Paul Baxter. 4th place: MacJive by Ned Holbrook and Jorg Brown. 3rd place: Desktop Doubler by Ed Wynne. 2nd place: Out of Context Menus by Eric Traut 1st place and winner of