How Hex-Editing SimCity 2000 Saved Games Taught Me Bytes and Hexadecimal

Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games

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How Hex-Editing SimCity 2000 Saved Games Taught Me Bytes and Hexadecimal

A memoir of learning about bytes and hexadecimal by hacking SimCity 2000 saved games on a Packard Bell 386 SX running MS-DOS. The author describes using a hex editor to change money values, discovering that saved games are just files on disk, and how this early cheating led to a deeper understanding of computing and a desire to make games.

I could cheat at SimCity! Oh, and I also learned about bytes and hexadecimal.
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