For those that don't know! Uplink is an
EXCELLENT game about bypassing computer security, almost a hacking game tutorial!
Lead Developer
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As you're probably aware, Introversion has been working on a Pocket PC version of Uplink on and off for well over a year. This project really has been sorely abused and neglected in the hands of us guys, which is why it has never materialised. Currently it's on a back-burner - we still plan to do it, but it has the lowest priority.
Would anyone in the Development community be interested in finishing this project for us? We'd be able to provide all of the work we've done so far - Uplink compiles and runs on the Pocket PC, and i'd guess its about 90% complete. There are quite a few interfaces that need resizing, and some deeper problems relating to performance and speed that need solving. There's still quite a lot of work.
We're considering running some kind of points system where we break the Pocket PC project down into remaining tasks and score each task based on difficulty. At the end we could take (say) the highest scoring 3 individuals and reward them with a small cash prize or something. Anyone interested in this?
In order to develop the Pocket PC uplink source code, you'd need a copy of Microsoft's Embedded Visual C++ 3.0, which is (amazingly) freely available from microsoft.com. They even supply an emulator, so you don't need an actual Pocket PC.
If the Dev community did finish the pocket PC version for us then we'd make the pocket PC executable freely available on our site - it would become effectively a gift to the Uplink community.
So, thoughts anyone?
The full discussion can be found here.....
http://www.introversion.co.uk/cgi-bin/i ... 9278181126
