CIVCHEAT.EXE is a small standalone utility to modify the save files
of the Civilisation games. It allows to increase the amount of money,
the amount of accumulated lightbulbs and to change parameters like
the year, the human player and the difficulty level.

The program is command-line driven and requires the name of the
save-file and the items the player wants to change. The items to
change are specified with a character indicating the item and
a number indicating the value desired for it. If no items to
modify are specified the program displays the actual values.

Syntax:

civcheat

Where:
is the name of a Civilisation save file,
Ex: civil0.sve
is a value to be changed in the format
x=yyy where x is a character and yyy is
a number.

Options available:

m=xxx Set the amount of money to xxx
p=x Change the human player to be x
y=xxxx Set the year to be xxxx, negative numbers
indicate years before 0.
l=x Change the difficulty level to x
b=xxx Change the number of accumulated lightbulbs

Remarks:

The program does some checking to make sure you don't enter
parameters who don't make sense. For example the amount of money
is limited to 32000. However, my parsing of the commandline is
_very_ simple minded and will fall over if you specify the
parameters slightly different, like inserting a space between
the '=' and the number.
The program came into existence between yesterday Midnight and
five in the morning. It worked for me, but there are certainly
bugs left. Indicate them to me, I might fix them :-).
There are numerous of other useful things I might be able to
integrate into follow-on versions. If you have a good idea send
me a note. I've got some ideas myself, how would you like all your
units to become veterans ? Or increase the movement points of
your units to 30 moves ?

I would like to thank Tom Kimball () and
Charles K Huges () for their postings
about the internals of the civ save file. I would not have made this
program without their information.

Have Fun !

Markus Baertschi
6, rue Gevray
1201 Geneva
Switzerland
..41 (22) 731 1235