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From: doug@certes.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Two New Secret Messages from Workbench
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 20:19:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 20:19:03 1987
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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