Re: A89: hiscore.ini?

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: hiscore.ini?
From: oh@hem.passagen.se
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 05:20:41 +0100
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At 23:30 1998-12-27 -0500, you wrote:
>Maybe i'm just missing something...  but what's there to 'hack' in a high
>score file?  i'm not overly worried that some program is going to go delete
>my tetris high score... then again maybe its just me.

Deletion is not the problem here.
The thing to hack in a high score file is the way the highscores are
stored, in order to change the highscores to "show off" for your friends
how cool you are that have a really high highscore....
most loosers like this will be stopped with just a simple encryption like
an XOR 

//Olle

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