Today in Heavy on the Magick, I found where the monster stats were kept. So I lowered Apex to try and kill him. Oops, it worked. But brave heart everyone, he does come back. #HOTM #zxspectrum #retroGaming

Today's Heavy on the Magick tip is creating exits. If you are able to run HOTM on an emulator and edit the memory (normally via a built in debugger), you can find the current room's exist at address 0xaf96 (44951). Each byte holds the possible exit in the order of NW, N, NE, SW, S, SE, W, E. Where a 0 means no exit, 1-4 same level, 6-9 up a level, 11-14 down a level. As the rooms are laid out in a grid, you can just create an exit in the required slot and hey presto, Axil can walk into the next room in that direction. #HOTM #GargoyleGames #ZXSpectrum #retroGaming #retroHacking

Further investigation in the brilliant Heavy on the Magick, by Gargoyle Games, I've discovered a couple of oddities. To key presses are not mentioned in the manual. Key 5, will pause the game. This is consistent with the previous games by GG. However key 4 is also detected in the same code, but doesn't seem to do much, other than pause the game if held down. In the previous games, 4 set off a demo mode, so I wonder if that was the original aim? #HOTM #GargoyleGames #ZXSpectrum #retrogaming #z80