Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!srt
From: srt@cos.com (Stan R. Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Emerald Mine problems
Keywords: game, Emerald Mine
Message-ID: <3188@cos.com>
Date: 29 Jun 88 14:34:10 GMT
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
Lines: 35


I have had emerald mine for about 5 months and have enjoyed it very much
but it has about 90 levels and I am stuck at level 34.  This level has a
large number of robots and two wheels to distract them with.  I have
found that this level is to difficult for me.  It requires a lot of
coordination which I seem to lack.  The program will not allow you to
advance to the next level until you have solved the previous one.  I
find it very frustrating to be stuck at level 34.  What I want is some
way to get past level 34 so I can continue enjoying the game.
    The game is self booting and has copy protection which marauder does
not copy.  It does have a directory structure but I have not been able
to find the file which contains my level.  Somewhere on the disk is the
information containing the level I am at along with my name.  I have
tried to look at the disk with sectorama but it does not have the
ability to look for strings (i.e. my name) on the disk.  I found a
program called diskzap (or something like that) that can look for
strings but it is very primitive and very, very very slow.  
   Are there any better disk looking programs (PD) on the Fred Fish
disks?  Or will I have to spend the time setting the diskzap program
with the various ways my name might be stored on the disk (Upper case,
lower case, first letter capitalized, etc).  This would take hours and
my disks would make a lot of noise.  I can only hope that my name is not
encrypted on the disk.
  Even better, does anyone know of a trick to get past the level that I
haven't figured out.

  Please Email me your response unless you think your answer would be of
interest to the group.
  Thanks in advance.

        Stan


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