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Ziggy informed me that Harry "Piru" Sintonen posted in c.s.a.misc: Two days ago I happened to browse to Workbench Nostalgia web page 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. :) Read more below.
AmigaOS 3.5 hidden messages
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:
- Choose Workbench/About... menu item.
- 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)
- Type "Who?" when the window is active (excluding "")
- Click Ok.
- Check RAM: for something cool :-)
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