Aaron,

You don't say exactly when the characters die - are
they simply marked as dead on a save game disk or do
they die while you are just moving around?

I've only played this version for a few days (in game
time) but I didn't have any problems with it. If you
are saving to a character disk and using VICE I'd
suggest using the VICE snapshot facility as it's much
quicker than using a character disk.

Hope this helps.

Guilherme

--- Aaron Hoyt <amhoyt--verizon.net> wrote:
> There seems to be a residual effect of a bad crack
> to the commodore 64 version of the city. I had got
> back into playing it and was getting along when I
> noticed my characters would die after a few days to
> a week. According to posts about this issue, I
> understand it to be a residual effect of the copy
> protection to the game.
>
> After having much frustration with this issue, I
> started to play the atari version, since it did seem
> to suffer from this issue.
>
> I recently stumbled upon a website that linked to a
> character editor for the c64. I am not sure if this
> will help out, but at least you may be able to bring
> back a dead character. I will have to see if it
> works.
>