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- THE SECRETS OF AMOS PRO's HELP ACCESSORY!
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- dISCoVERED bY ßudda/NFA
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- Whilst putting the finishing touches to my latest AMOS creations I stumbled
- across some amazingly clever secret messages which are built into the AMOS
- Professional system Help accessory. I usually use the Help option to check up
- on syntax of certain commands which I don't use regularly.
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- The amazing thing first happened a few weeks ago and I couldn't understand were
- it came from. When I pressed the HELP key during editing one of my programs a
- message appeared saying:
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- "The worlds best programmer!"
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- It confused me! I quit out of the Help accessory and then reloaded it - and the
- message had gone!! I wondered how I had activated it but couldn't think of
- anything so forgot about it. Then yesterday the messages returned. This time
- there was more and all different!
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- The new message read "Queens Park Rangers". What was it to mean? At first I
- thought the messages were activated when your text cursor is in a certain
- position along a certain line. And this seemed to work in a single piece of
- source code. But when I tried it in another program I'd written the message
- wouldn't appear.
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- Then earlier today (28/06/1995) I found some more messages. The first was a
- long one and read:
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- "The young TV star has this to say about his football team: Queens Park Rangers
- are a super team! They'll never win anything though..."
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- What was the obsession with Q.P.R then? However this message didn't come up at
- ceratin positions in the editor window. It just kept popping up all over the
- place. Then another message appeared saying "The only man to burn a hole in a
- QWERTY keyboard.". These messages are strange!
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- However I think I've found how to get the last message up all the time. It was
- to do with the commands on the line the cursor was on. It also depended in what
- position the text cursor was in.
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- I entered this on a new blank line:
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- Add ME UP
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- Then I put the cursor between the ADD and the ME so it was in the space! I then
- pressed the HELP key and it popped up; a message about QWERTY keyboards!!!
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- Now I can't remember what I was doing when I got the other messages up so I
- can't tell you how too. I wrote this article so ask any other AMOS Pro users if
- they've found ANY other messages in the Help system; or am I the only one?
- Please write in and reveal any other findings linked with the Help accessory.
- Send your findings in and I'll let every body know and give you the credit.
- Scibble down how you think you managed to get the message to be shown and also
- what the message is to this address:-
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- Sauce `N' Code,
- "Bradda",
- Crowborough Road,
- Georegahm,
- North Devon.
- EX33 1JZ
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