[Hugie]

My first and only hacks were at the age of 12 where i "patched" the copy protection keywords from the first XWing in 1993 [0]. I only knew 1 password and searched for it in a hex editor. I found it and recognized a pattern with similar words. Replacing them with the Ascii Space resulted in "press return to pass" password checks :D Damn i was proud.

At the same age, i rewrote the Story Text of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1991)[1] via hex and "Try and Errored" all Ascii combinations to develop my own Ascii chart. You can imagine what a 12 year old rewrote a love story to... my older brother was quite happy :D

I later tried to patch Dune2 Level files to create my own but did not understand a thing.

Now i write medical software and sometimes feel the same ;)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_(video_game_...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood_(...