553 replies to this topic

[grandhighgamer]

1. An installer? OH TEH NOES!
2. It's adware, not a virus and the creator explained this was to pay for the download.com submission.

[Natso]

It's good to see this game still gets some attention

Anyways, my marketing techniques, etc, whatever (I've got a really bad headache atm) are my own choice, so it's not something to be discussed or discouraged in this topic. Also, it's pretty clear in the first post that there is adware, etc, involved, so it's not like I'm tricking you or anything.

That aside, I wonder if I still have the gmd for this game... yes... that's right... I said .gmd. GM4.3a was crazy awesome...

Cheers
- Natso

[Krisando]

Interface good, but I don't know what Im suppose to be doing xD

[Blue_eyes_zombie_2]

All the links are broken.

[Natso]

You are wrong.

Try the very first link in the entire post.

Cheers
- Natso

[Fyeregg]

Seriously, hacking is pretty much the same whoever does it, uplink is based on hacking. This is based on hacking. They are both simulators. Simulators are supposed to be realistic...

This game is actually more of a... well its more of a game then a simulation (if you want to classify simulations as "realistic")
Trust me... Hacking is about 1000x harder then this game makes it out to be...

None the less, I actually downloaded and played the game two years ago and i was cought up in hours of fun with my bro...

Never could beat it though

Edited by Fyeregg, 29 November 2008 - 04:11 AM.

[Blue_eyes_zombie_2]

I meant for 1.2 Enhanced, which should really be the only version up...

[Hockeyflyers]

Great! I love it! This game is quite amazing.

But sometimes when I try to delete files, it doesn't work...
I right click on them but noting happens.
I am sure this has been mentioned before... this topic is nice and old.

But other than that amazing

Oh, nvm, I found out how to delete server files, thanks

Edited by Hockeyflyers, 07 December 2008 - 12:09 AM.

[Natso]

Great! I love it! This game is quite amazing.

But sometimes when I try to delete files, it doesn't work...
I right click on them but noting happens.
I am sure this has been mentioned before... this topic is nice and old.

But other than that amazing

Oh, nvm, I found out how to delete server files, thanks

If you can't delete the files, a firewall is blocking you. (that's your cue to get better software to bypass the firewalls)

Cheers
- Natso

[Hockeyflyers]

Thanks
I got this one error.

It was because when I got to much 'c', it moved down a space. So now all my servers are down one space (so when I want 1 server, I have to click the one above it). And If I click the last one, it gives an error.

Oh, and I found REGAD... Its great but then I removed it but I want it back. . lol

Edited by Hockeyflyers, 07 December 2008 - 01:12 AM.

[sge]

Hey Natso, glad to see you're still around. Galactic Hacker is one of the few finished GM games that I played years ago and enjoyed considerably.

Unfortunately this thread has been plagued by link rot. You hosted everything on Geocities. Yahoo shutdown Geocities. (There are a few projects to back up as much of Geocities as possible before it was taked down. This project culminated in a 650gb torrent being put up. There's a chance we may be able to recover your page and maybe some old versions too. But it seems that your page was removed long before Geocities died.)


Looking back, the whole adware debarcle is pretty funny - adding adware to the installer to at least attempt to break even, since you PAID download.com NINETY dollars (not accounting for inflation) to place it on their site. (And the game was only a few megabytes max!) That's virtually inconcievable now.

Also denying that this is a clone of the game "Uplink: Hacker Elite," is a joke. Screenshots on the internet of that game look virtually indentical to GH haha,
even down to using the same in-game currency and names of in-game programs (eg "Trace Tracker" haha)



Now from where I am, it seems that there were numerous different versions:

Many GH beta Versions
A Version 1 (this version SEEMS to have included adware, at least initially)
A "Version 1.2" (The main one for a long time. May have had a bug that prevented the game being finished)
And the current version "Version 1.2 Enhanced" (from unfinished source for 1.3)

IF ANYBODY STILL HAS ANY OF THE OLDER VERSIONS ABOVE, PLEASE POST THEM It's sad that the old versions are gone. We should really have a backup.

(Then there is Galactic Hacker 2, which I'm pretty sure I played a beta version of. But If I remeber correctly it wasn't as good as the first.)

You should seriously consider the remake, maybe even do it on an iOS system. The interface will need to be reimagined - not many computers look like GH nowadays haha

[Hockeyflyers]

I found version 1.0. I hope Natso doesn't mind. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1PR9T75K

[makerofthegames]

This description is misleading, it's actually 7 years, not 6.

[Natso]

Hey Natso, glad to see you're still around. Galactic Hacker is one of the few finished GM games that I played years ago and enjoyed considerably.

Unfortunately this thread has been plagued by link rot.

The first link in the first post is live, and it is version 1.3 (latest).

Also denying that this is a clone of the game "Uplink: Hacker Elite," is a joke. Screenshots on the internet of that game look virtually indentical to GH haha,
even down to using the same in-game currency and names of in-game programs (eg "Trace Tracker" haha)

Oh I won't deny there was plenty of influence from Uplink (great game). My own memory is horrible though, and I know it was bad back then too. I had completed Uplink before releasing GH... but I do also know that GH2 was the first time I had started from scratch trying to imitate Uplink... (it was very easy to tell, if you had ever seen the GH2 beta) It was going pretty good, too, but GM wasn't powerful enough at the time. Heck, I was pushing GM4 to its limits with GH1 (windows are only drawn once, at which point they're saved as sprites. Text-draw functions were slow back then).

Credits are the best futuristic currency ever, btw.

Now from where I am, it seems that there were numerous different versions:

Many GH beta Versions
A Version 1 (this version SEEMS to have included adware, at least initially)
A "Version 1.2" (The main one for a long time. May have had a bug that prevented the game being finished)
And the current version "Version 1.2 Enhanced" (from unfinished source for 1.3)

IF ANYBODY STILL HAS ANY OF THE OLDER VERSIONS ABOVE, PLEASE POST THEM It's sad that the old versions are gone. We should really have a backup.

(Then there is Galactic Hacker 2, which I'm pretty sure I played a beta version of. But If I remeber correctly it wasn't as good as the first.)

1, 1.2, 1.2e/1.3 were all released without adware. Early on I was scouted out, which ended up adding the adware to version 1. 1.2 was fixed up quite a bit, and 1.2e was going to support patches. As I mentioned earlier, the latest version is available at the first link in the first post, etc, etc... And theres no reason to play the older versions. Nothing was ever removed (afaik) except the green color scheme (which only got complaints). The heavy Blue theme got complaints too, but it got less...

You should seriously consider the remake, maybe even do it on an iOS system. The interface will need to be reimagined - not many computers look like GH nowadays haha

Unlikely to happen at this point. For a long time I was hoping to make a really fast-paced multiplayer GH game... never found a good platform to code it on.

I found version 1.0. I hope Natso doesn't mind. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1PR9T75K

Nice find! And I don't mind at all, archiving is great.

This description is misleading, it's actually 7 years, not 6.

You're cool too, man! I wonder how long I've been unsubscribed from this topic... Thanks for the PM!

Cheers
- Natso


Edit:
I've cleaned up the front topic, I'll move all the junk I want to archive into this post.
http://www.geocities...ticHackerV1.zip Download Here! at this link
-2/8/2010 update-
Wow, 6 years old. I might consider updating and making a version for the old fans... or remaking GH entirely. I do web coding now, perhaps an internet version of Galactic Hacker 1.x would be interesting? Probably not (haha). Anyways, the download links in this topic have once again become obsolete (back when geocities turned un-free).

Six years old.

Anyways, I have found a prototype copy of GH1.3. I realize the title screen still says 1.2. I do not know what was updated for .3, and I do not know if the update was complete, but I'm fairly certain it should be completely functional and playable as-is.

If you check out this game, please reply to the topic or drop me an email! It is great to see people still enjoying the first real game I ever made.

http://natso.darknov.../files/GH13.zip

Cheers
- Natso
-end 2/8/2010 update-

Edited by Natso, 09 April 2011 - 03:04 PM.