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"One persons quest to become the best hacker of the pseudo-90s" A relatively authentic and historically (creative liberties taken, IP addresses instead of phone numbers, etc) DOS style hacking game set in the year 1993. As well as connecting to devices over your trusty old 2400 baud modem, you can interface with other devices using your computer to access the small unique digital world within each as a second, deeper form of hacking. You must use the two in cooperation to "achieve hacks"

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This game is ENTIRELY UNFINISHED. Due to a sleeping mistake (I set two alarms on different devices to wake me up after 2 hours, but managed to disable both in my sleep and return to bed without realising, so I wasted 11 hours of the 3rd day), like 70% of the time I'd decided to dedicate to fleshing out the content on the system was lost, so although the game has a lot of expandablility under the hood (and I do plan on expanding it a lot, I had a LOT of fun working on this), this "demonstration" of its abilities is severely lacking. All it features is the tutorial section which teaches you the basics of how the game WOULD play, and a shareware demo-esque lock at the first BBS.

You'll know when you hit the content wall because you'll hit a special green popup.

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Keyboard - Everything. Use the in game help command to get a list of actions if you forget, or do the tutorial again.

THE CONSOLE IS CASE SENSITIVE!

The tutorial should teach you everything you need to do, but if on the off chance it doesn't start, try restarting the game and not pressing any buttons. The tutorial is quite linear due to time constraints so it'll stop following you if you don't do what it expects.

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The only compo rule this game breaks is the time limit, I worked alone and everything contained within is entirely from scratch (excluding the IBM Code page 437 font, which is basically on every windows computer anyway).

Links

• TWITTER: https://twitter.com/flatgub
• GET THE GAME AND THE SOURCECODE: https://flatgub.itch.io/retrohacker1993
• TIMELAPSE: https://youtu.be/MFmhJYUOco8

Changelog

V0.1.01

• Performance improvement and fixed out of memory issue

v0.1.02

• Fixed the disconnection crash
• Fixed more out of memory issues
• Fixed a typo
• Made the renderer render the screen in alternating chunks to avoid further out out of memory issues.

v0.1.03

• Removed the FPS counter i accidentally left on
• Removed the address book entry that shouldn't be there
• Many FPS improvements.

v0.1.04

• Further FPS improvements
• Fixed the bug which made dialling not find the host
• Fixed the bug where the BBS wouldn't let you log back in
• Fixed the screen clearing crash (I think)

v0.1.05

• Fixed Renderer lag and screen tearing, thanks JujuAdam (https://www.reddit.com/user/JujuAdam)

Known Bugs

• Keyboard input occasionally doesn't move the player