Hidden Parts in Diskmags
mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Adok
Back in Hugi #12 (summer 1998) I wrote: "Like Phoenix/Hornet maintain 'The Quasi-Official List of Demo Hidden Parts, Keys, and Tricks', I want to make you happy with a little list of hidden parts in diskmags. This list is pretty small because hidden parts aren't very common in PC diskmags, and it's the first list of its kind on the PC so that I couldn't simply rip-off the hidden part descriptions from another list like some other diskmags' main editors would have done. ;)"
Nowadays the list of demo hidden parts is maintained by Rod/Mandula and irregularly updated. Well, this list is updated on an even less regular basis: This is the second version. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are back after a break of three years. In fact it was suggested by mados of WildMag to update this.
Credits for this second version go to:
The hidden parts in these mags are still searched for:
If you know a hidden part in any diskmag, just contact me and you will be credited in the next version of this hidden part list. Thanks in advance.
Yes.
Affinity #8 (1996, English)
Start the mag and type "billgates" in the main menu. You will see a photo of
Mr. Gates and another guy and the text "I am gay. Love, Bill Gates".
Affinity #9 (1996, English)
Start the mag and type "unabomber". You will see a photo of Ted Kaczinsky
cached by the FBI.
Armor of Gods #4 (1998, Russian)
Simply start armor#4.exe with the parameter -wojtek. A birthday greeting dedicated to
Unreal/Pulse will appear. This is Programmer's response to the -programmer key in the
Pulse-demo Sunflower.
CFX News #32-#34 (1998, English)
Place a file called BSP.SUX into the directory, then the list of hidden parts
will be displayed as the last article. One of these easter eggs can be
executed by typing "CFXVIEW YO!". This will extract a modified version
of Future Crew's second demo "Yo!".
Cream #1 (1996, German)
Go to "Seite 6", "Internes" and select "...". Now you get to a little Tic Tac Toe game. You can
also find this game in Cream #2 in the games section.
Defcon #1 (1998, French and English)
Start defcon.exe with the parameter "/Hidden". You must use DOS, Defcon won't run under
Windows. Now you can see what Arakis looked like when he was a young boy.
Dragon #2 (1997, Polish)
Select "fading" from the Setup menu for the case that you have changed it ("fading" is
default). Go to the "scena" section and select the last article, "sorry agi". Scroll to the
right once, then scroll to the left once. Wait some moments, and you will get into a
Raptor-like shooting game called "Craptor" in Win95-look.
Dragon #3 (1998, Polish)
Select "Polska scena" and click on the eye icon on the top right screen edge. The hidden part
is called "Shoot the asswipe". You can shoot at pictures of Bill Gates in a shooting gallery.
Fleur #3 (1999, English)
You can extract the original program used for formatting the articles of Fleur by starting
Fleur with the command line parameter "/kellettnekedsecret?" (Hungarian for
"whydoyouneedsecrets?"). This hidden part is dedicated to Rod/Mandula, the coder of this tool.
There is also a hidden article for D-lee, which can be accessed by starting the mag with the
parameter "/schumi".
HotMag #1, #2 (1994, German)
Click on the name "Hawke" in the middle of the screen to see a hidden screen
containing some greetings and thanks.
HotMag #3 (1994, German)
Click on the hyphen on the HotMag-Logo at the top of the main menu. You will get to a secret
part which shows some shadebobs and displays the text "Zehn kleine Nazischweine" ("Ten little
nazi pigs"), a parody to the song "Zehn kleine Negerlein".
HotMag #5 (1995, German)
Again, click on the hyphen on the HotMag-Logo at the top of the main menu. You
will get to a "Helmut Kohl" hidden part which shows a drawn face of the former German
Chancellor, two colour bars and some fictional newspaper headlines.
Hugi #7, #8 (1997, German)
It's not a secret part but a secret key: With "C" you can change the background color of the
text windows from black to red, green and blue. Strange that nobody has found this hidden key
yet! :)
Hugi #13 (1998, English and German)
The first of a series of uncreative hidden parts just included to organize "races" for the
hidden part. Enter the International Section, scroll down until you see the article "Upgrading
Demo Parties - Movement '98" by Civax, then move your mouse to the right of this headline or
press TAB until just one block is marked. Click or press Enter and a nice screen saying "Hidden
Part" will appear, along with some birthday wishes for Civax.
Hugi #14 (1999, English and German)
The hidden part is in the Diskmags corner, in the bottom right block of the list of headlines.
Hugi #15 (1999, English and German)
Enter the German Section, go to the Szene corner - the bottom right block of the headlines is
the entrance to the hidden part.
Hugi #16 (1999, English and German)
There are several hidden parts with messages supposed to be funny. The first is accessible
through "Where to get Hugi?" - click the orange and be sure to say that CoaXCable is the guy in
the photo. The second, dedicated to Unreal/CNCD, is located in the Demoscene Forum, right to
the link to the Most Popular Coders. Finally, there's a message saying you haven't found the
hidden part hidden in the German section - click Scamp's body.
Hugi #17 (1999, English and German)
Lotsa hidden parts in this issue, this time maybe a bit funny indeed. Two are in the German
section, "Szene" corner: the easiest way to access them is to press TAB a couple of times, and
then Enter when a single block is highlighted. One is a stupid story about C-Storm, the other
greetings of even greater silliness. There are also hidden parts in the "Where to get Hugi?"
(first the orange, then the link to the Hugi website), the Demoscene corner (to the right of
the Demoscene RPG Manual) and the adverts (go to the Israeli advert for Hugi and click the link
to he Hugi website).
Hugi #18 (1999, English)
Finally something sensible: a hidden tune by Ciccilleju!/Apocalypse Design. Just enter the
music corner and then click the headline "Music Corner".
Hugi #20 (2000, English)
It's really easy: You just enter the Options screen, press END and then Enter. Thus you'll get
to the hidden tune in this issue - a chip by Loxley/Calodox.
Hugi #21 (2000, English)
And this one, ladies and gentlemen, is extremely hard. You have to search for "milky_way" using
F7. How should you guess that "milky_way" is the key? There are hints at a few places. For
example, you can click the Goblin's face in the Misc corner and then save the article to disk
using F2. If you open the saved article with a text editor, you'll see a weird remark on that
milky way stuff on the bottom. Rather hard stuff for which you get a chip tune composed by a 2d
graphician.
Hugi #22 (2001, English)
Too easy: It's the "u" in "Music" in the "Art & Music" corner. Well, at least many people
managed to get to listen to a chiptune by Ciccilleju! this way.
Hugi #23 (2001, English)
Zalza's tune "tea drinkers" is hidden in the electronic kindergarten report located in the
demoscene corner. Click the words "outward appearance" - it's easier to find if you just keep
scrolling down with Cursor down until the words are selected.
IMAgE #2 (1998, German)
Go to the third screen in the main menu. Then you'll see a button "goto GAG" on the top-right
corner. Clicking it will display a picture of the young man who created this magazine.
Imphobia #11 (1995, English)
Phoenix' Demo-Hidden-Part-List says that with the key "F5" an XMas-chiptune gets played.
Probably this applies for GUS. On my PC (Soundblaster) I can play this chiptune by pressing
"F3".
M*A*R*S #1 (1998, German)
Go to the directory ARTIKEL\EDITORIA and view intro.txt. That's a hidden article in which Main
Editor Cityhunter/Cyberdream gives you a piece of his mind about Hugi and the other German
diskmags. This article was actually intended to be the editorial of M*A*R*S #1, but as Muffin
had refused to put it in the mag City Hunter wrote a more peaceful editorial. However, he
forgot to delete the original editorial from the M*A*R*S archive. Well, this original editorial
is the best article in M*A*R*S #1 anyway because you can amuse yourself about how little the
M*A*R*S staff knows about the scene and how easy City Hunter thinks it is to establish a
diskmag.
Reality Check Network #14-#37 (1996/1997, English)
You have to play a game included in the magazine to get a password needed to
enter the secret articles. Here are all these passwords. RCN #14: TKRP,
15: HITAX, 16: DEFACTOE, 17: DEXTROMETHORPHAN, 18: EMILY, 19: 504-3066,
20: COREFART, 21: ENTROPHY, 22: HEATHER, 23: MK3, 24: PRESBUDGET, 25: RISC,
26: FOX, 27: CAT, 28: MOJO, 29: ARCH-VILE, 30: KIKI, 31: RCN, 33: MACE,
35: BLUEPHUZ, 36: RCN4EVER and 37: RBLC_IN_HK.
Shine #1 (1997, English)
Press the "U" key and you'll see a picture made by Lazur.
Shine #5 (1999, English)
Go to the charts section, click on the bottom left corner, type "laser", press
Enter, and you will get a sun eclipse effect.
Suicide #1-#3 (1994, German)
In the main menu, click on the pixel in the center of the screen. This will lead you to a
picture with some contorted faces of the Suicide diskmag staff. Unfortunately, this picture
fades out after a few moments, so you have to click on the central pixel again.
TAP.MAG #1 (2000, German)
Press TAB in the main menu to read some bad joke.
TAP.MAG #2 (2000, German)
Use the command line parameter "könnenunsichtbareunsichtbaresehen?" ("Can
invisible ones see invisible ones?") to see the message "..könnte stundenlang
darüber nachdenken ;-))" ("I could think about it for hours.").
WildMag #2 (2000, German)
Enter the article "Virtueller Sex" and click the first picture in order to get to a hidden fun
article - in English language.
X-Ray #0 (1998, Russian)
Moving the mouse to the upper right of the screen activates a screen saver. This screen saver
is a documented feature. The hidden part is very easy to find once you know how to get to this
screen daver: Simply move the mouse into the lower left screen corner and click with the left
mouse button. You will get to a plasma-like screen with a blurring text (greetings) on it.
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