     These files are fresh saved games for sim city 2000. nothing
has been built yet and medium values for all the terraforming
were chosen.  each game has 2,147,483,647 dollars so if you find
the terrain unpleasing you can just use the bulldozer to make
mountains, or destroy them.  the water tool to create your
waterways and the tree too to create old growth forests.  all in
all 2 billion bucks can go a long way.

     The reason why I am distributing these rather than a game
editor is that maxis uses some sort of RLE compession (as far as
I can tell) on their saved games and I can decode it by hand and
be 99% accurate but if I distributed an editor based on it I am
afraid the 1 out of a hundred games it was run on might get
toasted and I don't think thats very acceptable.

     I am quite sure someone with more time on their hands than
me WILL probably get an editor working on it.  it is certainly
possible, its just I have better ways to devote the 20-30 hours
I figure it would take to decode the compression scheme so that a
viable editor could be written.

     If you are just dying to know how you can edit your own
saved games (with marginal accuracy) mail me at my fido address.
if I get enough requests I will write it up and post it to the
fido gaming conference, or mail it back to you if you can't get
access to that.


                                    --Lee Burch

                         Virtual Net    12@1618012
                         Fido Net       Dr. Frank N. Furter@1:11/115


