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How to learn hex editing through trial and error

If you have a computer game you can save a file.  Then do something in the game that changes a value like health or hit points such as intentionally injuring a character and then saving a new file.  You can then look at the two files and compare them to see how the file is changed and find where the value is stored.  Sometimes you can simply convert the value in decimal to hexadecimal and search for the new value on hex editor, but sometimes that does not work so well depending on how the value is stored as sometimes a hexadecimal pair serves multiple purposes for example or the value you wish to change, changes multiple locations however this does not necessarily mean you can not figure it out.

Copyright Carl Janssen 2018

Old windows login bug

When I was a child I was searching for bugs on the school computer labs and found if you hit cancel you can avoid logging in and access ms dos which the faculty did not want you to do because after I mentioned this you could no longer use cancel to get into MS Dos.

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Elder Scrolls Arena Spell cost bug for high values

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I believe Daggerfall and Arena in the elder scrolls series became available for the public to use for free by the software company that owned them as a celebration of their anniversary.  If you own rights to the software and I am incorrect let me know and I can take it down from my blog.

"For the 15th anniversary, Bethesda has released Arena and Daggerfall as free downloads, both of which require an emulator such as DOSBox to run on newer systems."

 https://www.neowin.net/news/the-elder-scrolls-arena-and-daggerfall---free-download

 http://web.archive.org/web/20180613071630/https://www.neowin.net/news/the-elder-scrolls-arena-and-daggerfall---free-download

There is a bug for money and spell cost such that once the the cost to purchase the spell or the casting cost exceeds a certain value it wraps around to zero or just above zero.  If you push this to far it may crash the game using the spell maker.  Once you increase it past that number and it wraps around you may need to lower or increase values to have it wrap around to the desired cost and not too far past it.  It may or may not also include negative number values listed.

The Character is a Level 6 sorcerer as class effects spell cost.