GoKawiilBlog recounts learning hex editing by hacking SimCity 2000 save files on a 1990s PC
A personal tech history post describes growing up with a Packard Bell 386 SX running MS-DOS, playing games like SimCity 2000, Scorched Earth and Oregon Trail. The author recalls that tinkering with SimCity 2000's saved game files became the moment they first learned about bytes and hexadecimal data on disk.