[BLUG] Looking to study further in computer science

[Paul Purdom]

Steven Black wrote:
> You should've tried a hex editor on the saved games! That's how I
> started.
>   
When I started decoding saved game files, my eventual plan was to write 
programs to play the game (or more limitedly help automate some parts of 
the play). Of course, one often starts minor projects that don't get 
finished.

Of course, when I started programming, people had not started writing 
computer games. Had to learn lock picking to get at the computer (Royal 
McBee) for practicing on. Caltech had a liberal attitude on having lock 
picks just so long as you did not use them for evil purposes. The 
compute had a 32 track hard drive for main memory.