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Message-ID: #8112.pnet51.macintosh/sys.mac 2928 chars. (86 more)
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Attention, players of Cairo Shootout & Shareware/PD
software distributo rs Date: 3 May 89 23:44:54 GMT Organization:
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
.
A co-worker asked me to bring this to the attention of the net --
please pass this information around to as many distributors of
Shareware
.
My friend had been playing Cairo Shootout for some time, and decided
to pay the shareware fee to the creator, Duane Blehm of Hometown
Software (his company, I assume), which would give him a "keycode"
which would unlock the game for further playing. (Haven't played
this game much myself -- sorry for the lack of details).
.
He received his check back with a letter from Duane's parents saying
Duane had died last June, which he forwarded to me. Duane's parents
provide the unlocking keycode, asking people to distribute it
around, and to inform local user groups and BBSes that Hometown
Software is no longer in business, and is not filling orders for
source code to his programs.
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From this letter, I'd guess that these orders are somewhat painful
reminders to Duane's parents of his absence; please pass the word to
halt all orders to Hometown Software. Thank you.
.
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Keycode solution: They mention that the formula for the Cairo #2
keycode is this:
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You apparently have a "#1 Keycode" (again, I haven't played the
game much), which is a five or six-digit code. Let the last two
digits of the number = X; let the next-to-last two digits = Y; let
the first digit (if five digits long) or the first two digits (if
six digits long) = Z.
The #2 Keycode is equal to (Z + 1) * ((Y * X) + 18). For
example, if your #1 keycode == 92338, the #2 Keycode == (9 + 1) *
((23 * 38) + 18)