I’ve been around Amiga circles for some time and there was a genuine mystery as to where the “Speed Of Light” tune shown in the sound test was used in the game, so knowledge of the subgame clearly wasn’t as widespread generally as it was at your school.

When I started digging into the game, making a new WHDLoad patch, I found the subgame myself. On first inspection it looked like it was unreachable through normal play because of a bug in the level data, giving a plausible explanation as to why no-one (to my knowledge at that point) had found the subgame before.

Later, after discussions with Apidya’s programmer Peter Theirolf, this turned out not to be the case. What was actually happening was a bug in the common implementation of the invulnerability trainer was preventing entry to the Speed Of Light level. It was definitely reachable through normal play (as you and some others discovered), but most players weren’t good enough to get that far in the game and discover the entrance for themselves. This is why it had remained a “secret” until now.

But as you say, and as some of the comments to this post have demonstrated, there really was no secret at all, just a lot of people using a broken trainer.

Did you read the whole post? This is all already explained above.

Still, congratulations to you, Another One, for finding Speed Of Light yourself.

So WTF is this some kind of accomplishment?!