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- P H O E N I X Version 1.0
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- (c) 1995 by New Wave Design
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- All rights reserved!
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- International, freely distributable version.
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- Chapter 1:
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- - Introduction..........1.1
- - About PHOENIX.........1.2
- - Distribution..........1.3
- - Requirements..........1.4
- - Installation..........1.5
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- Chapter 2:
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- - The Interface.........2.1
- - The modes.............2.2
- - Workshop..............2.3
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- Chapter 3:
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- - Compare-Mode..........3.1
- - Backup................3.2
- - Thanx to..............3.3
- - Future Plans..........3.4
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- C H A P T E R O N E
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Introduction:
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- PHOENIX is an easy-to-use program which allows everyone to change
- data in saved games. For example, it`s more than easy, to give one-
- self a bunch of money in any kind of managergame or any other game
- that saves games.
- (To be honest: PHOENIX doesn`t work with Lucasfilm-Adventures AFAIK,
- but I`m working on it.)
- I didn`t choose the name Phoenix because I like the capital of Arizona,
- which I`ve never been to, but because getting more money in a game
- may be represented by Phoenix, rising from the Ashes. Maybe a little
- too metaphoric, but I like stuff like that :-)))
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- Phoenix uses a very simple, but efficient way to change the values:
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- First you tell Phoenix for which value it ought to search, in case you
- only have 4$ left, you tell Phoenix to search for 4.
- Then you tell Phoenix by which value the original value is to be replaced.
- (1000.000$ is often very handy...:-))
-
- Anyway, this method doesn`t work always, that`s why I included 4
- different search-methods. 3 of them can be used in this Version, the 4th
- method comes with the registrated version. With this you can virtually
- deal with EVERY game, as long as you`re clever enough to registrate :-))
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- About PHOENIX:
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- Phoenix is, well erm..., some kind of Shareware, more exactly it`s
- Crippleware. That`s because I think it really IS useful, especially
- if you`re one of those guys who like playin` games.
- I spent a lot of time coding it, and I think that in case you`re
- using it regularly, it would be more than fair to pay for it, right?
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- To make it easier for you to decide if you want to pay the requested
- fee, I built in something which I`d like to call "Payment Motivation".
- From time to time, a requester will appear, tellin` you that you`re
- using an unregistered version of Phoenix.
- The other "Motivation" is that the most powerful, but not always
- neccesary function "COMPARE" can`t be used in the FD-Version.
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- Now I guess that all of you are convinced, that Phoenix is a proggy
- which is really worth being paid for, am I right?
- It`s only 10 DM or 5 British Pounds or 30 French Francs or 7 US$,
- or the equivalent of the above in any other European currency.
- Additionally you ought to send me an envelope with either enough stamps
- (in Germany) or an international reply coupon (from any other country)
- plus an empty disk.
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- In case there will be updates (that depends on the number of people
- who registrate, and the number of suggestions), all registrated users
- can get them for half the price.
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- As stated above, I`m always interested in suggestions and bugreports,
- so feel free to send them along with your registration to:
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- Volker Schlecht
- Ziegelstrasse 22
- 70734 Fellbach
- Federal Republic of Germany
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- Or just contact me via :
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- 2:246/1416.59 (FidoNet)
- karras@amiuni.tynet.sub.org (UUCP)
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- Please understand, that I can`t accept registrations sent via the Net.
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- Distribution:
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- Ha, that`s a really easy one : You may distribute this Version freely,
- AS LONG AS (aaahhh.. here it comes..) all files contained in the original
- archive are spread together.
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- Requirements:
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- You need 3 eggs, 1/2 l fresh milk, 1/2 pound of sugar....
-
- Naahhh...All you need is an Amiga with at least Kickstart 2.04, and
- maybe 1MB RAM (Not so sure `bout this, maybe it also works with 512K,
- but does anyone work with that ??).
- Ah, yes, and you need the Reqtools.library by Nico Francois, but that
- should be just like the RAM..... everyone has it...
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- Installation:
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- Ahhhh... you have a HD? Now it`s getting more complicated. Be sure,
- that you read this twice, because it can go very wrong. It really IS
- some kind of hard to install, and you could do a lot of damage to
- your HD.
-
- Now here it is:
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- Just copy the program to any drawer on your HD where you want it to
- be. If you like its Icon and doc-file, copy them also, otherwise forget
- about them.
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- Make sure you understood all of it :-))))
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- C H A P T E R T W O
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- The Interface:
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- The method of using PHOENIX follows a completely new and revolutianary
- concept......as long as you use a PC. For Amiga-Users a graphical user-
- interface with full multitasking is quite normal, and that`s what it is.
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- The GUI consists of two parts. One is the part with the gadgets in, and
- the other one is the part where Phoenix informs you about everything it`s
- doing. This might not always be neccesary, but I like programs doing
- this.
- The comments that Phoenix shows are so obvious that they don`t need
- further explanation.
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- The gadgets might be a little more cryptic, so I`ll explain `em :
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- LOAD : Guess what ?? Right! This loads a game!
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- SAVE : Saves it again.
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- INFO : This is the MOST important part of PHOENIX. It informs you
- about itself and ME!
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- START : Who needs that ? It just starts the search.
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- Search for : Here you tell Phoenix for which value it is to search for.
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- Replace by : Here you tell Phoenix which value you want instead.
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- ASCII Search : Checkbox. With this one you activate the ASCII-Search
- mode. The mode is described in 2.2
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- String Search : See above.
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- Backup : Backs up the original game, before saving the changed
- one. Always useful, switch it on!
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- COMPARE : Ha! This one starts the COMPARE-mode which probably
- is the most powerful function in Phoenix. Unfortunately
- you`ll have to registrate before you can use it.:-)
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- QUIT : That`s a function you can use in all versions. It quits
- Phoenix.
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- The Modes :
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- 1) Search & Replace
- -------------------
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- This is the primitive but fast usual method. It searches for a value
- in the saved game and replaces it by another value. This does not work
- if a value can be found in the game twice or more, which can occur with
- very small values. If Phoenix tells : "Not unequivocally found!", you
- have to use COMPARE, which you can`t use in the unregistered version.
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- Search & Replace is started by the "Start" Button.
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- 2) ASCII & String Search
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- Maybe a value in a game isn`t saved as a value, but as a character or
- a string. In that case this method leads to success. It`s use just the
- same way as Search&Replace
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- 3) Compare
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- See chapter 3.1
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- Workshop:
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- Now, to make it easier for you to understand the way PHOENIX works,
- I decided to write a little "Workshop". For this we use an imaginary
- saved game which contains the following values:
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- Cash: $345 (saved as a word, for those who know what that means.)
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- Lives: 3 (saved as ASCII-Character)
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- Score: 123 (saved as String)
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- depts: $10.000 (Saved as word, but 10.000 occurs two times in the game)
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- First I guess you`d like $20.000 rather than $345, so we tell Phoenix
- to search for 345 and replace it by 20000 (Don`t use a "." in numbers!!).
- Then we press the "START"-Button, and wait a while. After some time,
- Phoenix opens a requester, telling us, that it has found the value, and
- asks if it shall replace it. We click on "Yes", and that`s it.
- Afterwards we save the game, and play on with some more money.
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- Now, you need more lives than just 3. But the method above doesn`t work.
- Now there`s still the possibility that they`re saved as ASCII, in that
- case just switch on the ASCII-Search Checkbox, and do as described above.
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- The same goes for the string search.
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- Getting your depts down to 0 is a little harder, because Phoenix can`t
- find it unequivocally and therfore doesn`t knoe which value to replace.
- That`s why "Search & Replace" doesn`t work here. In that case you use
- "COMPARE". You just compare your game with another on, which you saved
- right after starting the game, so it contains the original values.
- (In that case 0 depts.), now you load your game, tell which value
- "COMPARE" is to search for, and by what it`s ought to be replaced, then
- you click on "COMPARE" and with the requester appearing, load the
- game containing the original values. After a while Phoenix should show
- a requester telling "Value in game: 10000. Value in original : 0",
- so you know that Phoenix found the right value, and clicking on
- "Replace" does the job.
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- BTW, you don`t have to search for a special value with COMPARE, it
- also can show any difference between the two games. Often also helpful!
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- COMPARE is a registrated-version-only function!
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- C H A P T E R T H R E E
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- COMPARE-Mode:
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- See chapter 2.3 for explanation.
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- BACKUP:
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- I haven`t got very much to say about this. It`s just a function which
- ALWAYS should be switched on.
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- THANX TO:
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- - Every single Heavy-Metal Band who released on of the CD`s I have. They`re
- far too much to list here, but their music was a great help while writing
- the program and the docs.
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- - Markus Junginger for writing the MegaEd and releasing it as PD.
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- - ACID-Software for the Blitz-II Compiler.
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- - ESCOM for buying C=.
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- - Each one of you who read this text until here.
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- - My Amiga for running this proggy nearly bug-free :-))
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- Further Plans:
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- First I have to say, that I really have plans to improve Phoenix,
- but in how far I can realize this depends on the number of people
- who registrate or at least tell me, that they`re using it. I`d really
- love to know if you like PHOENIX, even if you don`t registrate, tell
- me your opinion anyway. I can be reached by the addresses in chapter
- 1.2.
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- Now here are the plans:
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- - A small built-in Hex Editor for hard-to-cheat games.
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- - Improved "Compare"-Mode
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- - An ability to load packed games might also be useful
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- - Maybe a runtime-search method which allows to change values while
- the game is running in a multitasking environment.
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- Sounds nice, dunnit? And don`t forget, that all registrated users
- will get eventual updates for half the price.
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- HAVE FUN WITH PHOENIX !!
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- Volker Schlecht, 24.7.1995