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Okay, all you Mad Scientists out there, The Software Toolworks
just puts out a new game with a Surgeon-type theme to it, and you
read all about it in PComputing and it appeals to the carrion-
seeking sadist in you, so you bug your buddies until they track
down a copy of it, and it runs great! If only you could play it!
Well, your troubles are at an end. The infernal Code Wheel in it's
entirety is contained in this here .ZIP file, just so you can
Hack away at a patient or two instead of that Damn Database your
Boss has been bugging you about..( Would'nt you like to put HIM
under the knife for a while..!!? )
This was'nt as time consuming as it looks at first glance, if
you have ever seen the Code Wheel you'll remember that it is in
three layers, the top one has the windows for the 4 phone lines,
the middle one also contains windows (cutouts) and is indexed
by location, and the bottom one is indexed by the Dr.'s name.
16 Doctors,
16 Locations,
4 Phone Lines,
Plus the cutouts in the middle.
And they all move.
AAAARRRGGH!
But wait! If you only turn the MIDDLE (location) wheel, you notice
that the windows only affect certain locations! All the rest are
constant! In all, there are only 64 numbers that change, and of those,
only 4 for each doctor! ALL the rest are constant! So I made ONE
Master file with all the constants, copied it to 15 different file-
names named after the doctors, and edited each one for the doctor's
name and 4 variable numbers which I put into the 12 blanks in each
file! It was EASY!!!!! Oh Well, I imagine they'll make something
more difficult next time, But until then, I'll have to rely on
Luck and the support of my esteemed cohort THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT,
to keep my interest up in this sort of thing... By the way, has
anybody cracked Maniac Mansion yet ? I typed up the symbols for
Zak McKracken but damned if I'm going to do it again for M. M.!!!
LARRY LAFFER
P.S. Coming soon to a BBS near you! SENTINEL WORLDS I
(THE PARAGRAPH BOOK)