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From: roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton)
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Subject: Re: "Naughty bits" in the game "Blast".
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Date: 11 Feb 91 14:18:42 GMT
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In article <5599@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> nester@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Darryl K. Nester) writes:
>
>When playing the "breakout"-type game "Blast", posted to c.b.i.p. within
>the last couple of weeks, I discovered that while most of the names in the
>"Hall of Fame" were "Mr. Nobody" with a score of 0, there was a (ahem)
>slightly different one in the HOF for the third variation ("Blast").
>
>Suffice it to say that if there is anybody out there with small children
>who might be playing this game, or if you plan to give a copy to a friend,
>you might want to attack the file "FILE.BIN" with DEBUG and sanitize it
>first.

I discovered this also, and wondered whether the X-rated text was
intentional or not.

In any case, I also discovered that you don't need to binary-edit
FILE.BIN in order to solve the problem (although that's what I
initially did).  All you have to do is delete the FILE.BIN that
was provided, and BLAST.EXE will create a brand new (non-X-rated)
FILE.BIN.

















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Roger Fulton
roger@wrq.com