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For those who really want to know...
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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 interested I have a site about
my little ones <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160108043537/http://www.stevehornsc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/carolyn/cats.htm" target="_BLANK" title="My Real-life cat family"> here </a>),
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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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.
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<img src="Carolyn.jpg" alt="Little Tam and his foster-mum">
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