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- What is there to say? Let's see. Well, I'm female, British, in my mid '50s, have a - passion for cats (I'm a foster-carer for the local Rescue Centre and if you're + What is there to say? Let's see. Well, I'm female, British, in my mid '50s, have + a passion for cats (I'm a foster-carer for the local Rescue Centre and if you're interested I have a site about my little ones here ), - a love of reading (particularly humour), and an obsession with hex editing for all - of the P.F.Magic range of games. I have every single one of the Petz games, plus - Oddballz and Babyz, including the different versions (Mac Oddballz, International - Petz 3 etc). I've hex-edited loads of stuff for them over the years, starting back - in 1995 with Dogz original. You edit the dogz breedfiles in Notepad, they are just - simple text files -- and I spotted that the later games have these text files too, - just stuck together with a load of other stuff in large resource files, which is why - I've always extracted them and edited them the way I do.
+ a love of reading (particularly humour), and an obsession with hex editing for + all of the P.F.Magic range of games. I have every single one of the Petz games, + plus Oddballz and Babyz, including the different versions (Mac Oddballz, + International Petz 3 etc). I've hex-edited loads of stuff for them over the + years, starting back in 1995 with Dogz original. You edit the dogz breedfiles in + Notepad, they are just simple text files -- and I spotted that the later games + have these text files too, just stuck together with a load of other stuff in + large resource files, which is why I've always extracted them and edited them + the way I do.

- I believe that information should be freely available, plus I want others to enjoy - my hobby as much as I do, which is why I started to post "howto" messages back on - the old Usenet newsgroups years ago. Abby wrote to me and suggested that I gather - them together and make tutorials, and the rest (as they say) is history. I also - believe that in a hobby such as ours, where we make and share add-ons for our - favourite games, we should do so freely and with joy. I never can understand the - bickering that goes on about so much, including copyright, in our community. We edit - the programmers' original files without a by-your-leave, so why should we be upset - when others fiddle with our own files? All that is needed is a suitable - acknowledgement of our own work. Outright theft in a community like ours is another - thing I cannot understand -- after all, what is the pleasure in taking something - that someone else made and displaying it as your own?
+ I believe that information should be freely available, plus I want others to + enjoy my hobby as much as I do, which is why I started to post "howto" messages + back on the old Usenet newsgroups years ago. Abby wrote to me and suggested that + I gather them together and make tutorials, and the rest (as they say) is + history. I also believe that in a hobby such as ours, where we make and share + add-ons for our favourite games, we should do so freely and with joy. I never + can understand the bickering that goes on about so much, including copyright, in + our community. We edit the programmers' original files without a by-your-leave, + so why should we be upset when others fiddle with our own files? All that is + needed is a suitable acknowledgement of our own work. Outright theft in a + community like ours is another thing I cannot understand -- after all, what is + the pleasure in taking something that someone else made and displaying it as + your own?

- Do I do anything else? Well, yes -- it's been a full, rich life so far and I spent - many years of it in interesting places outside the U.K. I've written some short - stories for a satirical magazine, and a couple of novels -- humorous fantasy/SF, - probably not suitable for youngsters -- which are available for reading somewhere on - the Internet. I've dabbled in editing stuff in the various Creatures games, and - somewhere out there are my c307 genomes which used Slink's excellent c306 as base. - Startopia -- I modded some stuff for that, currently up at Slink's site along with - my deep delvings into the original Sims game files. Oh, and Aquazone -- a couple of - edited files of mine and a "howto" are floating around the Internet somewhere. But - it's always the P.F.Magic series that I come back to, and hex-editing their files - that gives me most of my computerised fun.
+ Do I do anything else? Well, yes -- it's been a full, rich life so far and I + spent many years of it in interesting places outside the U.K. I've written some + short stories for a satirical magazine, and a couple of novels -- humorous + fantasy/SF, probably not suitable for youngsters -- which are available for + reading somewhere on the Internet. I've dabbled in editing stuff in the various + Creatures games, and somewhere out there are my c307 genomes which used Slink's + excellent c306 as base. Startopia -- I modded some stuff for that, currently up + at Slink's site along with my deep delvings into the original Sims game files. + Oh, and Aquazone -- a couple of edited files of mine and a "howto" are floating + around the Internet somewhere. But it's always the P.F.Magic series that I come + back to, and hex-editing their files that gives me most of my computerised fun. +

- Little Tam and his foster-mum

+ Little Tam and his foster-mum + a