Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!allegra!alice!d From: d@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga 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 Lines: 41 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. # disclaimer: These opinions are necessarily mine, not my employer's. # UUCP: {ihnp4 || research || allegra}!alice!d AT&T: 201/582-6455 (work) # INTERNET: d.alice%btl.csnet@CSNET-RELAY "Yow!"