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- SimCity is a superb program, an excellent source of entertainment
- while you learn a little about city planning. I plan to purchase
- the full working version of the game and would recommend it to
- anyone, but when I downloaded the Demo I was somewhat upset that
- you could only play for 3 minutes - bummer! Hardly enough time
- to get a feel for the game. Being something of a Mac Hack, I
- used my handy debugger to figure out how to remove that annoying
- "Thanks for playing SimCity" window that returns you to the Finder.
-
- Actually it is a simple thing to do if you have "MacSnoop" (a neat
- little program I found here amongst the many CompuServe archives,
- please send the author of this one some thank you $, he deserves it!)
- or any similar program that lets you change memory within another
- program.
-
- To make the change using MacSnoop...
-
- Startup MacSnoop
-
- Open SimCity (work on a copy of SimCity-demo)
-
- Select "Find" from the Edit menu
- then with the Hex Pattern box checked
- Find 6F3E
-
- Select "Modify Block" from the Edit menu
-
- Change 6F3E to 603E
-
- Select "Write Block" from options menu
-
- Quit MacSnoop
-
-
- That's all there is to it! This merely changes one instruction
- in SimCity (demo) that makes the Mac always branch around the
- "Quit" subroutine. (Don't worry you can still choose to quit thru the
- regular SimCity Menubar.)
-
- Although you will still see the 3 windows that describe features of
- Simcity, they will not reappear after the first couple of minutes of the
- game.
-
- If you want to save your game or see the example cities you will
- have to buy the game, but after playing this demo I think you
- will see it's worth the investment!!
-
-
- Russ V. Campbell
- 19 May 1989