| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 9 Oct 2000 at 01:27:35 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: OPus' secrets... |
Hello Dariusz
On 08-Oct-00, Dariusz Gac wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anybody know what to do in order to receive Opus' messages:
>
> "You will have to elaborate more for me to help You"
> "If You feel that way I'll shut up...."
>
>
> I have found them inside of DirectoryOpus executable file...
Sorry it's getting late here, so here's a quick cut'n'paste from the Magnum
Opus Guide that should explain things.
Magnum Opus Guide V3.1
Undocumented Features.
With almost any program there is usually a function that's not documented,
or some hidden message or just something silly that the author put in. Opus
Magellan has quite a number of these. Here's some that I have found, they
may only apply to the UK version V5.661 but try them yourself and see.
Most of the hidden features that I mentioned in Magnum Opus versions 1 &
2.x have now become common knowledge thanks to the new manuals. I will
include these one again incase you haven't seen or used Magnum Opus before.
There are also some others I didn't know about that can be found on the
GPSoftware WEB page.
While finishing off this AmigaGuide, I discovered one gem that I don't
believe has been documented before. Open up the CLI window of Opus Magellan.
click here or go to the "Opus" menu and select "Execute Command" and click
on the CLI button. Now type in "32mhelp me eliza!39m" without the quotes, you
should then get a message "32mHow can I help you?39m". Now this is where the
fun
begins. I spent an entire afternoon typing things in to see what response I
could get and was pleasantly surprised by the results. Who would have
thought you could have a conversation with a program. Try out some of these
words and phrases, again without the quotes.
"opus" (there are at least five different responses to this)
"sorry"
(try a four letter swear word beginning with f)
(and another one beginning with c)
"I'm mad"
"I want a PPC Amiga"
"why did the author put you in here"
"why did the chicken cross the road?"
"Say, do you have any psychological problems?"
These are just a few that work, try asking it things that contain why,
when, where, who, what, etc. To go back to normal operation just type in
"shut up". I would be very interested if someone finds something really
interesting.
Another one I found was in the new internal CLI If you type in "Joshua"
you get the message "Greetings Professor Falken." Just incase you don't get
the joke try watching the old movie from the 1980's called "War Games."
Has anyone noticed that in icon or icon action mode, when you drag a floppy
disk into a hard drive window, if that disk has its own icon (disk.info)
that this is used for the drawer icon ? If the floppy disk does not have its
own icon then like Workbench a default drawer icon is used.
There are a number of environmental variables, most have been included in
the documentation or manuals, but some of these are not well known. I'm not
going to go into detail here as there is a good editor available for this
called Do5extPrefs by Jens Weyer that I would recommend that you get
(Do5extPrefs16.lha biz/dopus).
If you select "Quit" from the Opus menu it displays a requester saying
"This will end your Directory Opus session." If you then select "Cancel"
sometimes you get another requester saying Good :) I'm not able to
determine the criteria that cause this to happen and I only discovered this
by chance. It took quite a while to get the screen grab of it.
Page 58 in the V5.5 manual mentions about the shift click on the animation
in the "About" requester. But if you continue to hold the shift key and
click again there are three further pictures. One is Greg Perry and two of
others who unfortunately I don't know. If you leave the About requester on
screen after about 30 seconds you get a scrolling list of credits. Some
people have reported that they cannot get this to work. I have traced this
down to the Directory Opus screen which must be running in 16 or more
colours.
Another one is in the Icon information window that I found by accident. If
on either a tool, project or drawer icon you type in the following
"»»» Icon by Richard Lane «««"
excluding the quotes as a tooltype, when you next select information on
this icon the title bar of the icon information window reads
"Icon : <filename> Author : Richard Lane".
Capitalisation is important it must say "Icon by" NOT "Icon By" or "icon
by". The first three characters are produced using ALT zero and the last
three ALT nine on a UK keyboard. This is how Amiga Format managed to wrongly
credit some of my AmigaGuide icons.
..
> And what about environment variables:
>
> CPUTurboMode
> DigitalConvergence
> JavaVM
> JeTePlumeraiLaTete
> PPCEnabled
> SchindlersList
Don't mess with them, in fact iirc some of these where put in there just to
see who was snooping around and don't actually do anything. I guess Jon or
Greg could probably tell you more on this.
BTW. is there any other hidden stuff in DOpus?
Author: AmiNET - biz/dopus/Magnum_Opus31a.lha
Web site - http://www.magnumopus.co.uk
"Beam me up, Scotty! It just ate my phaser!"