> >just remembering the old C64 poke (or peek? :)) Easter Egg. If I > That was actually in the C128. I can never remember the SYS call, > though... In case you don't have a C128, try it on X128. Commodore Secrets ================= Taken from stecreta.zip by Joe Morris / MITRE -------------------------------------------------- Product: Commodore PET -------------------------------------------------- Source: Jan Schiefer (jan@nasobem.stgt.sub.org) On the Commodore PET 2001, a "POKE 6502,n" where 0 <= n <= 255 resulted in the machine printing the string MICROSOFT! on the screen n times. -------------------------------------------------- Product: Commodore 128 -------------------------------------------------- Source: Norman St. John Polevaulter (MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu) And of course, going WAY back, there is the credits and anti-war message you could coax out of a Commodore 128 by typing: SYS 32800,123,45,6 In the ML monitor try also: m 63f5 -------------------------------------------------- Source: (Kevin Horton) khorton@tech.iupui.edu In the very first models (1985) there was the text "RIP: HERD/FISH/GUAY/PAR" etched into the copper of the board. --------------------------------------------------- Product: Commodore Business Machines 1581 Disk Drive --------------------------------------------------- Source: Eric Pass (epass@nyx.cs.du.edu) error = $ff3f org $3000 lda #$79 OR lda #$7a jmp error The two messages are listed in the 1581 dos reference guide as: $79: Software by David Siracusa. Hardware by Greg Berlin $7a: Dedicated to my wife Lisa Here is a program to illustrate the messages: 10 open15,9,15:n$="m-w":m$="" 20 fori=0to3:reada:n$=n$+chr$(a):next 30 fori=0to2:reada:m$=m$+chr$(a):next 40 print#15,n$chr$(121)m$:print#15,"m-e"chr$(0)chr$(3) 50 get#15,a$:printa$;:ifst=0goto50 60 print#15,n$chr$(122)m$:print#15,"m-e"chr$(0)chr$(3) 70 get#15,a$:printa$;:ifst=0goto70 80 data0,3,5,169 90 data76,63,255 Information derived from messages on the C_B_M Echo by Russell Prater and David Schmoll --------------------------------------------------- Product: Amiga hardware and software --------------------------------------------------- Source: Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu) (Forwarding from phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) ) You have to be running KickStart 1.2 (33.166 I think, I can't remember if they were all there in the 33.180 release). Now, press the following all at the same time, Left-Shift Left-Alt Right-Alt Right-Shift and then press one of the 10 functions keys (while still holding down the above four) and you get one of 10 different messages in the menu bar. Now for the fun bit. Do the above, and then while holding down all 5 keys, insert a disk in the internal drive, and you get *another* message, and for the classic conclusion after all this (still holding down all 5 keys?) eject the disk, and the message: We made Amiga, they fucked it up appears in the menu bar. Now another Amiga hidden message (also in KS1.2). Go into preferences, on the first screen, there are pictures of two mice, one to set the double-click speed and one to set the mouse speed. Click on each of the buttons on the mice 5 time in the following order. 1234 1234 1234 1234 1234 /------\ /------\ | 1 2 | | 3 4 | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ Now select printer setup, scroll all the way up the list of possible printers, and then all the way down. Then the title bar of the preferences window changes to something like (it been a *long* time since I tried this): Congratulations =RJ= Appearantly just as the guys finished the preferences tool, RJ Michel, one of the Amiga designers became a father (everybody say aaahh!). --------------------------------------------------- Source: Jim Shaffer (jms@vanth.UUCP) Dale Luck, formerly of the Amiga development team, tells a story about hacking the system software when the custom chips were still on breadboards. To prevent blowing out the hardware, he put an anti-static mat on the floor and convinced everyone to go barefoot. They would also dance during late-night compiler runs to prevent falling asleep. One of the hidden messages in version 1.2 credits "Moral Support: Joe Pillow and the Dancing Fools." --------------------------------------------------- Source: Jim Shaffer (jms@vanth.UUCP) Incidentally, I just re-checked my version of KickStart 1.2. The "We made the Amiga, they..." sequence is replaced by "The Amiga - Born a Champion, Still a Champion." I couldn't find anything at all in KickStart 1.3. --------------------------------------------------- Source: rivero@vxd.mdcbbs.com In article <1992Jan2.122451.18215@news.stolaf.edu>, seebs@asgaard.acc .stolaf.edu (The Laughing Prophet) writes: > A quick search through KS2.04 reveals only two things that I noticed: > > 1] something like "what secret message?". (don't remember - I checked this > a few months back.) > 2] in hex, FE ED C0 ED BA BE. :) > The hidden Amiga messages were on the Amiga 1000, and then only on earlier units. One of the messages, accessed by holding down both "Amiga" keys and two other keys WHILE inserting a disk into the floppy drive, was rather explicit in its opinion of Commodore after they acquired the Amiga company. Once word of that message got out, a purge was ordered of all hidden messages. BTW, the inside top cover of the Amiga is autographed by the machine developers (and somebody's dog). --------------------------------------------------- Source: Peter da Silva (peter@taronga.com) An undocumented feature of the Amiga 1.2 O/S. If you brought up the mouse preferences and clicked all four mouse buttons in the picture, then clicked an invisible gadget next to the date, the window title changed to a cute message about the programmer's SO. --------------------------------------------------- Source: Norman St. John Polevaulter (MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu) While we're at it, the new OS2.04 has its own set of secret messages. When workbench is running, hold down control, alt, and shift, and start selecting items from the leftmost Workbench menu. It may take a few tries to get them, but they're in there.
Stefan `Sec` Zehl, 23-Okt-1994 13-Feb-2002