Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!utopia.rutgers.edu!wilmott From: wilmott@utopia.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Copy protection (Alternate Reality) Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 23:19:28 GMT References: <1991Feb25.054200. <1991Feb28.174638.6022@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 --- >I also tried manipulating my character but never found the name... Yeah, I spent much time trying to alter my characters' attributes as well. I did manage to "map out" the character disk after a bit and find out that such and such a byte on sector x represented how much food you had, etc. Problem was I couldn't edit it even after finding it because the program used some sort of checksum and if you messed with anything, your character either ended up dead or diseased. About 2 years ago I did find a character cheater program (one for the City, and one for the Dungeon) on a local BBS. Worked great...alters all stats, lets you "transport" to any location (including "secret" locations that the programmers locked you out of by not making any doors into the area), adjust the time, etc. The only thing I haven't found out about the game is how to decode the text strings buried on the disks... -Ray