Fantam 39 Amstrad Action Revised Bedroom Hacking By Fantam 39

                                             Bedroom Hacking


  When I had my CPC set in my bedroom it wasn't just playing my favorite games there was another side to my gaming the monthly magazine which was like religion for me to read each month was Amstrad Action and every month there was a tips,hints and pokes section with type ins that you could type into the CPC and it would give you infinite lives/energy so I became each month without realizing a bedroom hacker originally I'd type the poke and then load up the game to let me complete it without any worries this really did take away the feeling of achieving but when you've played a game for months and got stuck on the same level the handy poke came in handy so I could see the rest of the game other ways of activating a cheat was usually pause the game and hold a certain amount of letters which would either give you infinite lives or let you skip a level, After a while of just typing the poke in and loading the game I thought of incorporating the cheat at the begging of the game on a separate tape so it would go like save the type in then record the game after and I gave the loading screen my own bedroom hacking name so when you load the tape from the start it would read on screen 'Ollysoft Ltd Proudly Presents Hacked Version Of.....' then there would be a request to load the main game and once your game had loaded it was hacked with whatever cheat was typed at the time, cool huh. Well in my life time I'd never really meet any hackers just when I went to a guys house to get copies of Amiga games for my friend they'd nine out of ten times be hacked versions. I noticed a lot of the Roms I've downloaded for Winape have been hacked by a lot of French people, me and my friends didn't know any CPC hackers at the time it was just me doing it by myself each month Amstrad Action came out and I'd make a hacked copy of the game I wanted changed. I suppose \Googling the hacking and PD scene you'd be surprised how many CPC hackers were out there. Still it's a fun little hobby to have when your young and at least you can get to finish your games and see everything the game offered.