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  Doggysoft delight in annoying games producers with their products, which effectively institutionalise hacking of Acorn games (including a 'Cheats prosper' area on their website).
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  Cheats certainly do prosper, in this case netting a saving of 10 because of incompetent programming by Doggysoft, causing the supposedly 'cut down' Desktop Hacker demo not to be quite as cut down as Doggysoft intended.
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  There are two features in the Desktop Hacker demo - saving of lists and saving of game - that are only supposed to be available in the full version. If you try to drag the file containing the list/saved game to a directory window, a message pops up saying 'You can't do this in the Desktop Hacker demo. Send 10 to Doggysoft for a full copy'. I discovered that, due to some sloppy programming, if you enter a path in the save dialogue box, then press return, instead of dragging the file, the list/saved game will be saved <i>with no error message, and can be reloaded, just like in the full version</i>.
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  Happy hacking.
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