Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games

Continuing my personal history with computers, after the Commodore 64, this is the story of how I learned about bytes, as stored on disk, and hexadecimal. It's not a terribly engaging or important anecdote, but it's a vivid enough memory on my journey, that I wanted to record it. Packard Bell desktop Our family had a Packard Bell 386 SX desktop computer (beige, of course), with a CRT monitor, running MS-DOS (I remember versions starting with a 5 and a 6). Being a kid, of course, I considered the computer to be solely a gaming machine. I remember playing Carmen Sandiego, Operation Neptune, Oregon Trail, Scorched Earth, SimCity 2000, and many other games. Scorched Earth (1991) Wait, actually, it turns out that I didn't treat the computer as solely a gaming device. I remember using educational software as well, including Dinosaur Adventure (which had great music) and Orbits. Orbits had a fun visual demonstration of the relative effects of gravity on the surface of each planet, where it…