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Gamebible.zip
1 of 11: This is actually a tribute to one of the legendary Hacker movies, titled 'Hackers'.
2 of 11: The password is 17 symbols long.
3 of 11: The password is easily guessable if you bought the game (shame on you if you didn't!)
4 of 11: You may have noticed that behind the CD cover there are some white letters and numbers mixed.
5 of 11: If you've fooled around with computers for a while, you might find that these look familiar.
6 of 11: There are no letters that are alphabetically beyond 'F'.
7 of 11: The hex system has no numbers after F.
8 of 11: Hex numbers come also in pairs, and the number of the symbols in the cover are paired.
9 of 11: There are 34 symbols behind the cover.
10 of 11: The number/letter combinations are hex. You will need a hex editor to see how they would look if transformed to real letters.
11 of 11: Transformed to letters, the password is "too many secrets?"
