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From: d@alice.UUCP
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Subject: How to cheat at MINDWALKER
Message-ID: <6504@alice.uUCp>
Date: Tue, 30-Dec-86 21:16:10 EST
Article-I.D.: alice.6504
Posted: Tue Dec 30 21:16:10 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 03:48:28 EST
Organization: Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
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Keywords: cheat, MindWalker, win
This hack for the game MindWalker which will let you determine how many lives
are available for your disposal :-).
WARNING: Some might call this cheating. I would, but I have neither the skill
nor the patience to play MindWalker all the way through the way it is.
It is simply *too* difficult (for me). Everything gets harder and meaner
and beyond my ability, and I could never finish it in ten years
without extra help. If this sounds like you, go ahead and try this.
If not, don't blame me!
Start a game of MindWalker (new, saved, whatever.) Save it. Now, your job
is to find and modify offset 0x71 (hex 71) in the saved file, named
MWDisk:MindWorld, where is the letter you saved your game under.
This is how I do it: boot up a Workbench, open a CLI, and...
TYPE MWDisk:MindWorld opt H TO PRT:
Offset 0x71 is the next one over from the first byte on the line marked
0070. Now, change it to whatever value you want - that'll be the number
of lives left when you restore this game.
This is how I do it: use a text editor that doesn't throw out funny characters,
like TxEd 1.2. Most versions of EMACS throw weird characters (control, ALT,
etc.) out. So does MANX Z. TxEd doesn't. (There are 768 or 0x300 bytes in this
file.) Find offset 0x71 by looking at your printout, finding an ASCII
character on the ASCII side (right-hand side),
and count off from there until you get to 0x71. Type in the new value using
hex entry mode, and press DELETE to get rid of the old one. Write it back to
disk. Fire up MindWalker, and continue the challenge.
Even after "cheating" and another two hours worth of play, I haven't won,
but the triumph is at least now in reach.
Good luck!
--
# Daniel Rosenberg (CE) AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill / Mi parolas Esperanton.
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