Subject: Switching character disks
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From: Rich Smaldone <nooget@earthlink.net>
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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 04:13:51 -0700
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On my IIe, I used to have this little trick with RPG's such as Ultima
IV, Bard's Tale, etc.  When the game would ask for your character disk,
I would simply grab a disk at random (could be Print Shop, maybe a
Prodos system disk), and put it in instead.  Invariably I would be
presented with a list of characters that looked like this:

af893hoiaf983
&%$Rugi()*&^*&(ikh
dasufyapipeu2379263
23498
oi
+_|{\[]34h(*

At this point I would load them in, and they would have these really
wacky characteristics like 9999 hit points, 239487263 gold, or
whatever.  I could just rename the nonsense characters, and be all set.
Did anyone else ever do that, or was I just an anomaly?


Rich Smaldone
http://home.earthlink.net/~nooget