OOTW Hacker version 0.1b By Nathan Mates While Out Of This World is a really spectacular game, my arcade skills aren't as good. I was playing around one day, and decided to see if I could save the game part way throuh a level. I could, and from that, Out Of This World (OOTW) Hacker was born. OOTW Hacker is a CDA, so install it in the system/desk.accs folder of your boot volume and reboot, or use a DA installer, such as IR. Once it is loaded, run OOTW. At any time while you are playing the game, go to the CDA menu by pressing control, open apple and escape all at once. Find the entry marked "Out Of This World Hacker" and select it. The first time you select the CDA, you will be given a menu with only one option: 1. Save Current Position From here, you can either press escape, "Q", or control-Q to leave the CDA, or hit "1" to save the current postioion. On non-accelerated machines, there might be a bit of a pause after this happens as well as a slight flash of the screen, this is because the computer is storing both the game and data about the screen. Once you select the first option, two more options will appear in the menu: 2. Restore position 3. Free Used Memory Restore Position can be selected an infinite number of times; it simply takes you back to the position you were when you selected "Save Current Position." When you get back to the game, the colors on the screen might be off for a fraction of a second (due to the way OOTW changes the screen colors around to make things appear better) but they will be soon corrected. If you enter another room the colors will almost every time be corrected. The saved game in memory takes up about 53K of memory; OOTW Hacker should properly give you an error if it cannot allocate the necessary block of memory. When you are done playing OOTW, it is best to give that memory back to the system-- simply select OOTW Hacker, and press option 3, "Free Used Memory." This will throw away the saved game you have, and give the memory back to the common pool of memory. If you quit OOTW and then select OOTW Hacker, it will say that it cannot find OOTW, and it will clear a saved game, if there is one. Caveats: This program was written up in about half an hour by Nathan Mates. I have not have the time to fully beta test it; there may be some bugs floating around, hopefully not. The hacker works fine with my version; if you have a slightly different version, it probably won't be able to "find" OOTW in memory. About the programmer: Starting September 1992, I, Nathan Mates, will be a freshman at Caltech university. As Caltech is a phenomenal university, it also costs a bit, so any donations ($, Disks, other programs) to help defray the costs of my time helping the Apple II community from within this prestigious university. My mailing address (good all year): MSC #850, Caltech Pasadena, CA 91126-0001 Apple II Infinitum!!! (For those of you who don't know Latin, "Apple II Forever")