doug@certes.UUCP (07/06/87)
Here's two more previously unpublished (on USENET) secret messages from Workbench. They are rather amusing editorial comments from the Los Gatos group (probably not too amusing to CBM, though!). You will need either your nose, a foot, or a friend to help with this one (not kidding!) First point and click on the workbench screen to activate it (as before). Now leave the pointer on top of the Click-to-Front gadget on the upper right of workbench (you don't need to click there, just leave it there throughout the rest of the following). (The Five Finger Trick:) As before, hold down left-shift, left-alt, right-shift, right-alt, and F1 (this gives the "System Software" credit line at the top). Don't let up on any of these! Now eject the workbench disk in df0: (with your nose or other appendages; at first I used my foot but I find that, by moving the keyboard real close to the drive I can use a finger of my right hand to do this). (The Six Finger Trick:) You get the message "The Amiga, Born a Champion" Now hold down the left-amiga button in addition to the others that you're still holding down (squirm your fingers around until one gets freed up in the correct area). Finally, now that you're holding down left-shift, left-alt, left-amiga, right-shift, right-alt, and the "Champion" message is still on the screen, *and* the pointer is still over the ClickToFront gadget, insert the disk again. (The Seven Finger Trick, a.k.a. The Middle Finger Trick:) You get "We made Amiga, They fucked it up". I think this is pretty funny, but on the other hand I can sympathize with how CBM management folks probably felt when they found out about this. (Dan Richardson, who demonstrated the method, says they were pissed off.) The moral of the story is obviously: don't piss off your development team (by, say, firing them). PREFERENCES REVIEW While I'm at it, somebody was still trying to figure out the preferences trick. The issue has been confused by someone talking about a single-bit gadget to the left of the date...as far as I know, this has nothing to do with it. In fact, I can't even find this thing, but the trick still works for me. 1) Locate the two images of the mouse in the middle right of preferences (one used for setting double-click sensitivity, the other for mouse speed). 2) Moving from left to right, click each one of the buttons pictured on the mouse images once. 3) Repeat 3 more times (a total of four left-to-right passes, totalling 16 clicks altogether) 4) Enter "change printer" 5) In the list of printers in the upper right, click on the down-arrow many times until you get to the end of the list. 6) Now click on the up-arrow many times until you scroll to the top of the list. 7) The message "Caryn and =RJ= Love 4 Ever" appears (they are married and she just had a baby, BTW). Doug Merritt ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug (note new address)
keithd@cadovax.UUCP (07/09/87)
In article <8707052123.AA04517@unisoft.UNISOFT> doug@certes.UUCP writes: >(The Seven Finger Trick, a.k.a. The Middle Finger Trick:) > > You get "We made Amiga, They fucked it up". Publicising this could be one way to get Commodore to release 1.3 in record time. :-) Keith Doyle # {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd # cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170
doug@certes.UUCP (07/11/87)
In article <8707052123.AA04517@unisoft.UNISOFT> doug@certes.UUCP writes: >(The Seven Finger Trick, a.k.a. The Middle Finger Trick:) > You get "We made Amiga, They fucked it up". In article <1643@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes: >Publicising this could be one way to get Commodore to release 1.3 in >record time. :-) Now *there's* an interesting thought! Wouldn't that be nice... But seriously, don't worry, it's not like I was the one to leak the secret. It's been all over the local bulletin boards (some of which are nationally and even internationally popular). Thad Floryan says that he was the one that started posting it to BBS's, and that *he* only found out about it because, although previously it had been a "closely held secret" of certain Amiga developers, they just waited until 1.2 was in ROM (on the 500 and 2000), and then leaked it. (Figuring that a lot of 1.2 ROM's would remain unchanged for a long, long, time, regardless of releases of 1.3) And apparently the very first leak was in the presence of a CBM person. BTW, there's a rumor going around that there are 4 more secret messages to be found in Preferences. I know what the text of them is supposed to be, but haven't found out how to generate them yet. I *did* locate the "1 bit wide gadget to the left of the date" that's been mentioned, and it probably has something to do with these other messages... P.S. To you Commodore folks: if you *do* remove certain of the, uh, less complimentary messages, please don't remove all of them! These little tricks are neat; they give the machine some extra personality. In fact, how about adding *new* ones on every release? Doug Merritt ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug