Lorne Lanning himself once gave a hit that when lookng for secret areas in AO, listening for the sounds of things you can't see on the screen.
Example, the very first screen of AO, you can hear meat saws, on the secret area right below, there are 3 of them.
So AO did sort of have markers.
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