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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 11:34:49 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Secret Messages In AmigaOS
- Message-ID: <13213573@sourcery.han.de>
-
- In Article <neilo-0502962326460001@d31-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>, Neil O'Rourke <neilo@m140.aone.net.au> wrote:
- > In article <DMA9vs.IJ7@freenet.carleton.ca>, aw785@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
- > (Ben Kennedy) wrote:
- >
- > > Ron Lyon (postmaster@rlyon.demon.co.uk) writes:
- > > > While perusing the erudite messages in this area I was amazed to read this
- > > > fascinating note from ELCE/F95 to All:
- > > >
- > > > EF> Phillip Snell (fruity@dillusio.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Can anyone
- > remember
- > > > EF> how to get the secret msg in the About window that said : something to
- > > > EF> the effect of "We made the Amiga, Commodore fucked it up"???
- > > >
- > > > EF> That one was in a really old version of the OS (1.1?). It got changed
- > > > EF> as soon as C= found out about it.
- > > >
- > > > It is still there in my A500 1.3.;-))
- > >
- > > Well... how do you invoke it? I've an A500 1.3 (2.0 softkicked) as well,
- > > and I remember doing all those prefs-related motions several years ago,
- > > and the ones with the function keys... don't think I ever saw that one.
- >
- > This is a rare sucker ... you hold down left alt, left amiga and left
- > shift, right alt right shift and right amiga, press F10 and insert a
- > disk. Most times you get the message "The Amiga, born a champion", but
- > occasionally you see "We made Amiga, They fucked it up"
-
- I checked the source, you are almost correct :) In the 33.180 ROM there are
- ten messages mapped to the function keys F1 through F10
-
- F1 System Software: Carl, Neil & Kodiak
- F2 Graphics Software: Dale, Bart, Jimm & =RJ=
- F3 QA: Jon, Bruce, Stan, Kim & Jerry
- F4 LG Support: Caryn, Dave, Victor, Terry, Cheryl & Nancy
- F5 CBM software: Andy, Barry, Dave & Eric
- F6 Pics: Sheryl & Jack
- F7 Docs: Rick, Mitch, Peggy & Rob
- F8 Chips: Jay, Akio, Glenn, Edwin, Mark & Dave
- F9 HW: Dave, Bill, ChrisR & Josh
- F10 Moral support: Joe Pillow and the Dancing Fools
-
- In earlier code the F10 message actually read "We made Amiga, They fucked it up".
- Going back further in time, the help key used to produce the messages
- "God help us: Neil, Dale, Bart, Jimm, Andy, JonF, Nancy",
- "Help from Neil, Dale, Bart, Jimm, Kodiak, Barry, Sam",
- "thanks to Neil, Dale, Bart, Jimm, Kodiak, Barry, Sam". All these message were
- added to the Workbench code in the V33 run.
-
- The message "The Amiga, born a champion" appears when inserting a disk. "We made Amiga,
- They fucked it up" is to appear when removing a disk. It appears only rarely,
- probably because of the code that is executed before the conditions are checked if
- the message should be displayed.
-
- As far as I can tell, the code was #undef'ed in the v34 release and not compiled
- into the final ROM code.
-
- The story continues. The 1.3 LoadWB command included a patch for
- intuition.library/SetWindowTitles to replace the ROM screen title
- "Workbench release 1.2." with "Workbench release.". But that's not everything
- it did. When running on an 1.2 Kickstart ROM the "The Amiga, born a champion"
- message was replaced with " Still a Champion ". Thus, to see the old message
- you need an old LoadWB command.
-
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