I was hoping someone here could lend me some advice. I DL'd an old DOS game last night that I use to play way-back on my Apple 2C! It's called Legacy of the Ancients. Checking out the readme that came with it, I noticed that you could edit the character file using a hex editor. I'd like to mess around with the character file to see if I can coax some extra cash for my char. Looking at the instructions, it mentions an 'offset' or something like that. I have no clue what they are talking about.
Any good resources for learning how to read hex coding? How tough is it to figure out addressing in hex to change number values in the game?
Thanks for any info peoples!
Any good resources for learning how to read hex coding? How tough is it to figure out addressing in hex to change number values in the game?
Thanks for any info peoples!
Accepted Answer. There is not format you can call 'hex file'. You can interpret a file as stream of bytes and display them by hex numbers. But from this point of view, any file is a hex file. When the file format is known to have comma separated hex values in the format '0xhh' without any other characters like spaces and line feeds you know the length of each item to be five characters (except the last one). A possible solution might read the file content into a char buffer.