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UIM Character Editor - Read Me File
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This Utility will help you get around the Oceans in UIM from The Fourth
Dimension by allowing you to define your own Submariner Character.
How it works is like this: UIM "Checksums" any Saved Character
File and if it does not match what it thinks it should, then the Computer
locks up! This is to prevent your attempting to cheat and obtain a UIM
certificate. However it is possible to get around this by altering the
Default character stored in "$.!UIM.BROGAN" as this is not checked (not yet
anyway)! This Utility is not to help you cheat, but to give you a chance
to survive and hopefully get more enjoyment from the game.
For your own safety I do recommend that you at least make a backup
copy of BROGAN on a seperate Disk so that if anything goes totally
wrong you can at least restore the default settings. However, I have
run the UIM_HACK Utility many times now to check all the various
options that the program alters without any damage to the Game or
Disk. I have even duplicated BROGAN as BROGAN2 in the !UIM Directory
and have safely used this as the unaltered Default loaded in while the
amended data is re-saved as BROGAN. Also, I've even stored the
UIM_HACK on the Game Disk! However, if you do this, you do it at your
own risk, I accept no responibility for loss of data or ruining your
game disk!
HOW TO USE THE EDITOR
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Version 1.00 - From BASIC - CHAIN "HACKER"
- From Desktop - Double Click on Hacker Program Icon
Version 1.01 - From Desktop - Double Click on !UIM_HACK Application Icon
Once loaded, you are presented with two screens of text, please read
them, they are there for your protection as much as anything! Once
you are happy with the safety of your UIM Game Disk, press Space Bar
to move on to the actual Loading and Defining of your Character. You
can choose how many Network Credits you start with, how many
Torpedoes, Chaff, Sea Mines you have, maximum of FOUR otherwise the
screen display is corrupted. You may also choose which Network you
start on. You may also pick just how destructive you want to be.
This ranges from the Default Ion pop-gun up to the most destructive
Generator. One word of warning here, the more powerful gun you have,
the more you seem to be attacked. Or at least that's what I've found
so far!
The next options you can select from are all the other items, like
modules, the Central computer, Deflectors, Air Lock and so on. With
these, there are several which are "Colour Coded". Currently these
are either Yellow or Green. The Yellow are the Weight Restrictive as
detailed in the UIM Manual. Only four of these items can be carried
at once. The program will not allow you to select more than four, or
three if you selected the Phasors from the Arms section as this is
also one of those weight items.
Once you have selected all that you want, the program will save BROGAN
to the disk and run the Game. As for the "Extra Equipment" which it
briefly mentions, this is the part of UIM which you have to work for
yourself by succeeding with the Mission Modules! After all, you want
a little more challenge that simply being splatted by the various
nasties floating around in the oceans don't you?
My thanks to STWPD for the Clue which gave me the first insight into UIM
and how to get around the Checksumming. The writing of the Hack Utility is
however all my own work.
THE HISTORY OF !UIM_HACK UTILITY
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March 1990 - Obtained my A3000 Computer System
20 April 1990 - Written Version 1.00 of UIM_HACK which did the job, just.
Nothing fancy, but it worked.
28 April 1990 - Amended Version 1.00 to Version 1.01 to work from Desktop
- and added early version of Double Height Routine.
30 April 1990 - Written Textfile (that's this) to try to clear up any
- problems which may be encountered.
As for what the future holds, hopefully as time permits, I'll be able
to make it more WIMP compatible, better Double Height Routines,
perhaps even optional modes and so on.
David Dragonrider, Ilkley