Harry Sintonen:
Two days ago I happened to browse to Workbench Nostalgia web
page (http://www.gregdonner.org/) just to find out that
seemingly no one has yet found the AmigaOS 3.5 hidden message.
Olaf Barthel has confirmed there is one so I did some studies
and found it. :)
AmigaOS 3.5 hidden messages
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All the following is in at least BoingBag1 updated AmigaOS 3.5.
a) "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" -message inside the
libs:workbench.library. There is a relocation entry pointing
to this string inside the library, but it doesn't seem to be
used by anything. Not 100% sure about this though.
(due charset limits "Jose" is with normal e. It really has
e with ' on top of it.)
b) Little german rot13 crypted message at the end of the
libs:workbench.library (CygnusEd has rot13 feature, AmigaOS 3.5
and CugnusEd have been greatly influenced by Olaf Barthel:-)
The message encrypted is:
Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln
Und die andern sind im Licht.
Und man siehet die im Lichte
Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht.
In english:
Some are in the dark
some are in the light.
The ones in the light are seen
the ones in the dark you can not see.
(rough translation by ZZA)
<ignatios> says it's from the "Dreigroschenoper", text: B. Brecht,
music: K. Weill. There's a translation to English sung by Louis
Armstrong, in case you have access to a disk library...
c) Cool eastern egg in Workbench About:
1. Choose Workbench/About... menu item.
2. Position the about window so that both left and top are odd.
(for example to position x:1 y:1, you can turn off the mouse
acceleration to make positioning easier)
3. Type "Who?" when the window is active (excluding "")
4. Click Ok.
5. Check RAM: for something cool :-)
AmigaOS 3.5 secrets discovered by Harry Sintonen