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From: christer@cs.umu.se (Christer Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Addition to the game porting wish list
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.151717.12435@cs.umu.se>
Date: 8 Jun 90 15:17:17 GMT
References: <1552@swbatl.sbc.com> <3145@leah.Albany.Edu> <1990Jun8.150952.12328@cs.umu.se>
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In article <1990Jun8.150952.12328@cs.umu.se> I wrote:
>
>Undefeatable, huh? Try this for a workable (at least I hope so - I did this
>for a friend, and he hasn't reported any problems), but somewhat "dirty" krack:
>
>Find  : 6DB0 4267 A861 301F 4840 4240
>Change: same same same same same 4280
>
>Find  : 5C8F 5440 D12D DC2A
>Change: same 1B7C 0016 same
>
>The first patch makes the game to always ask for Treasure Fleet, Caracas. And
>the second patch fools the program into receiving the correct answer regardless
>of what you enter.
>

OOPS, I forgot to mention that it'll only work as long as you don't select
a special historical period (ie as long as you select the 'no, thanks'
option). Sorry about that. Perhaps I'll take the time to dive deeper into the
code to get a better patch if there is enough interest...


/Christer

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