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20/05-91 SimCity cheat V1.06
Updated: 19/04-91 - for version 1.00
Updated: 26-27/04-91 - for version 1.01
Updated: 27-29/04-91 - for version 1.02
Updated: 30/04-91 - for version 1.03
Updated: 01/05-91 - for version 1.04
Updated: --/05-91 - for version 1.05
Updated: 20/05-91 - for version 1.06
Copyright (C) Tomi Blinnikka 1991, All Rights Reserved.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This program is freely distributable. This means that you can copy it and
give it to all your friends, upload it to a BBS or include it in a PD-
library (FISH etc.). The only restrictions are that all of the files are
included in their original form without additions, deletions, or modifi-
cations of any kind and that it IS NOT SOLD. THIS INCLUDES GERMAN PD
SELLERS. If you want to use this program for commercial purposes you
need written permission. The SimCity cheat program is provided "AS IS"
without warranty of any kind, and the author is not responsible for
any damage this software may do.
***********************************************************************
HAVE COPIES OF ANY FILE YOU WILL TRY TO CHANGE WITH THIS PROGRAM!!!
***********************************************************************
WHAT DOES IT DO?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With this program you can change the amount of money your city or game
has. You can add it, or then you can take some of it away. Technically
all this program actually does, is it changes a few bytes of data in your
CityMap.DATA/Game.trp file. There are two ways to use this program,
through DOS (only SimCity) or through intuition. When using the intuition
interface you have a few nice things that you don't have if using DOS
(i.e. a command line).
WHAT DO YOU NEED
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you use the Intuition-interface, you will need the Req.library in your
LIBS: directory, which is copyright Colin Fox (of Pyramid Designs).
COMPATIBILITY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This program has been tested on a few different types of machines. If you
do have problems, let me know straight away so I can fix the bug. Anyway,
this program has been tested on the 68000 and 68020 processors (A1000,
A500, A2000, A2500/20) and a little bit on the 68030, so it should work
on the A2500/30 and A3000 as well. I have tested it also on Kickstart
1.3 and Kickstart 2.0 (37.59). I have tried to make this program 2.0
compatible. I have tested it with various special 2.0 functions and fixed
all the bugs I have been able to find.
The program has been tested with SimCity 1.3 and it works ok.
HOW TO USE IT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To use the program, simply run it from the CLI or click on its icon in
the Workbench. This way, it will open a window on your Workbench screen
(or a public screen with the Shanghai-mode on). In the window you will
see a string gadget (the box with the number in it). The amount you see
in the box is the amount you will have in your game after you have made
the change. If, for some reason (like running a script for all your
cities), you would like to use the CLI-interface, run the program with
the filename of the city after it.
O.K. If you didn't get that here's the whole thing step by step...
Running from the WORKBENCH
--------------------------
Click on the program's icon. This will run the program, goto 'The
INTUITION-interface', step 2.
OR
Click once on the game file's icon while holding down the SHIFT-key
and then twice on the SimCheat icon (hold down the SHIFT-key all the
time, from the point of clicking _ONCE_ on the map's icon to the point
where you click _TWICE_ on the SimCheat icon.)
The INTUITION-interface
-----------------------
1. Run the program
1> SimCheat
2. Choose the game from the menus.
3. Give the amount of money you would like to have (in the game of
course :-)
4. Choose CHEAT! from the menus.
5. Give the filename of the game
6. Click OK. And when it asks 'Cheat on this file?' click
OK again.
Here is some more about the windows and menus...
THE MENUS
---------
There are two menus in the program. The menu 'Project' has four
items: CHEAT!, Help, About, Quit.
CHEAT! Amiga-C - This will ask first for the filename of
your city and then change it. You can
choose CANCEL! after selecting a file
if you feel like it.
Help Amiga-H - This will give you some help. If
running under Kickstart 2.0, you can
also use the Help-key. Press help
again to get help on the help (see
section below).
About Amiga-A - This will give you the copyright notice
etc.
Quit Amiga-Q - This will let you leave the program.
You can also leave the program by click-
ing on the window's close gadget or by
pressing the Escape-key.
The second menu 'Games' has one item (Games 1) and two subitems:
SimCity and Ports of Call.
SimCity Amiga-1 - Select this if you want to cheat on
SimCity.
Ports Amiga-2 - Select this if you want to cheat on
of Call Ports of Call.
The DOS-interface (only SimCity)
--------------------------------
1. Run the program with the filename
1> SimCheat Mydisk:MyDir/MyCity
OR if you have spaces in your directory names or filenames.
1> SimCheat "Mydisk:MyDir/My City"
You can also get some help by running the program from the CLI and add-
ing a question mark after it.
1> SimCheat ?
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DOS- AND INTUITION-INTERFACES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The main difference is that when you use the program through the DOS-
interface you don't get the windows. One other major thing (using
intuition) is that you get to choose how much money your city gets.
Through DOS you'll always get $16, 777 215. Plus you can't (in this
version) cheat on Ports of Call, Oil Imperium or Ports of Call.
HELP
~~~~
Under Kickstart 2.0, pressing the help key, and under 1.3, pressing
Amiga-H (or choosing it from the menus) you will get some on help on
using the program. There is listed the min and max amounts a game
file can have and some special info about using the program with the
game. Below are listed the commands you can use in the help section.
To view the next page, press the
N-key
Arrow right (KS 2.0)
Arrow Up (KS 2.0)
'Next'-gadget
To view the previous page, press the
P-key
Arrow left (KS 2.0)
Arrow down (KS 2.0)
'Prev'-gadget
To quit help press the
Q-key
ESC-key (ESCAPE)
'Quit'-gadget
Close-gadget
To get help on help, press the ?-key. Under KS 2.0 press the help-
key again. You may also scroll through the pages until you get there.
ERROR MESSAGES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The program checks for just about every possible error, just in case.
I hate programs that crash my whole system if they couldn't open a
library etc. I also hate programs that don't give the user any kind of
message if there has been a file error (say, 'No disk in drive XXX:'),
and then it gives you something like 'Disk error.', so I have included
the most important disk errors. The only problem is if run from the
Workbench. If there is an error, like the program couldn't open lib-
rary, the texts will go to a device called NIL: (i.e. you won't see
the error text). If you are having trouble and not getting any error
texts, to tell you what is going on, run the program from the CLI.
SimCheat also checks to see if the file you have given it is actually
a SimCity/Ports of Call game-file. If the file isn't, it will tell you
about it and ask if you would like to change the file anyway (for
possible future versions of game datafiles that mess up my great file
checker).
VERSIONS
~~~~~~~~
Here is a list of changes etc. between different versions, starting
with the newest version.
Version Size Date Description
---------------------------------------------------------------------
1.07 15200 03/10/91 Added some size. Updated version number to
1.07. Uploaded to MITS.
1.06 11632 01/05/91 Problem with program name not fixed. Rework-
ed whole help-system (you'll most likely see
it in my other programs also). File size
grew a lot though, so if you don't play PoC,
save version 1.04. New optimization needed,
_not_ done in this version.
1.05 ---- --/05/91 Added stuff for Ports