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- 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.
- .
- 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.
- .
- -----
- Keycode solution: They mention that the formula for the Cairo #2
- keycode is this:
- .
- 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)
-