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From: smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs
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Date: 10 Jul 90 15:28:09 GMT
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Some more "Easter Eggs" . . .

Early versions of Amigados (1.0 to 1.2) had all sorts of little secret
messages stashed this way and that among the code. I don't remember the
exact instructions for bringing them up, but they all required a tricky     
set of actions to ensure that no-one brought them up accidently. 

For example, I believe that if you held down both shift keys AND both
"Amiga" keys at the same time, then by hitting the function keys you 
would bring up credits in the menu-bar, giving the names of the original
design team. In the preferences setting tool, there was an icon representing
the Amiga's mouse (for setting double-click speed). By hitting the image's
left and right mouse button a certain way, then scrolling through the list
of available printer drivers several times, the phrase "RJ loves Caryn"
would appear in the menu bar. RJ Mical desiged the user-interface toolbox
and he met his wife, Caryn, while working for Amiga.

Perhaps the most interesting one required the user to (I think) hold down
both the Amiga keys and shift keys, while the mouse pointer was positioned
over one of the screen icons. Then while still holding down the buttons, the
user had to eject the disk from the internal drive. The phrase
"we built Amiga, Commodore f***ed it up" would appear in the menu bar.
100,000s of Amiga 500s and 2000s were shipped with the 1.2 ROMs that 
contained this nasty (but funny) quote.

I was talking to RJ some time ago, and he said that there where many other
messages that no-one knew about.

Also in the Amiga community, there was a popular program published by
NewTek out of Kansas. Someone disassembled it and found the phrase
that said something like "If you are reading this text, NewTek might
want you to do some assembly programming for them. Call . . . ."

In one of the games for Atari's Lynx hand-held game box (forgot which
game), the programmers had alot of extra space, so by typing in a code
you could bypass the game and start up a Mandelbrot generator.




Any opinions are my own since nobody else would ever want them.

"Lisa! You make it sound like butt-kissing is something to be
ashamed of!" Homer Simpson.