We've released an update. If you've got v0.1.2 Beta 1 installed, just go to Start>Programs>Onlink>Update to get Beta 2.

If you don't have Onlink installed or have a version of Onlink prior to v0.1.2 Beta 1, you can download Onlink Update from here.

EDIT: Changelogs added. See below.

Miah's Changelog:

• Quirk with logging into Gateway systems
• VDPIN purchase error
• Security Disablers and Killers now work again
• Odd security quirk (sentry)

Michael's Changelog:

• Fixed a playlist bug

Well that was fast - Downloading now.

Hmm... I'm starting to like the update program.

Will post back later with thoughts...

EDIT:

I know he added some text into those TODO slots he left behind.

Miah wanted an update rushed out, hence the quick Beta 2. Not sure of his reasons, though.

There were some fundamental problems with Beta 1, some important things didn't work, glad to see they are fixed so quickly.

I do that. Damn my responsibilities.

Change log basically consists of bug fixes:

• Quirk with logging into Gateway systems
• VDPIN purchase error
• Security Disablers and Killers now work again
• Odd security quirk (sentry)

Who's Michael?

He goes by 'Crazy' on the forums. He's our newest developer, been working with us for a couple months now.

how come it doesn't ask for the box code

Yeah, I pointed this out during beta 1, I wonder if Miah or Tycho saw it...

I was able to install Onlink onto my desktop, which did not have Uplink installed, it runs fine, I started it up, and was able to create a new user without a codecard.

About the code card. I cannot find where the post was (it was either here or the Introversion forums), but someone brought to light that the code card was never intended as a means of copy protection (see the last question on this FAQ on Uplink's site).

In light of this information, we saw fit to disable the code card because it's generally an annoyance.

So does that mean Introversion is allowing you to distribute their game for free (well, okay technically it's an extremely modded version, but the engine is the same )? Or should we keep this on the shush-shush?

I think the bug here I missed was that it isn't checking for world.dat, which -is- a copy protection mechanism. A very WEAK protection mechanism, since it's basically just a 20MB file, which, on my connection, could be transferred from pretty much anywhere in 4 seconds.

I think Miah and I are going to come up with our own sadistic copy protection scheme.

So anyways, old questions from the previous update that I have yet to hear an answer about...

1. If you uninstalled Uplink and then installed Onlink (without Uplink), will installing Uplink back on top bork anything?

2. How to add custom gateways? I tried the old method (i.e., changing data.dat into data.zip, extracting/unzipping it, and then tooling around with the gateway files), but my custom gateway doesn't seem to be appearing in the game.

-- Griffinhart

EDIT: Well, I figured out how to add gateways... turns out I remembered the process wrong, eheh. However, there still remains a problem... though my gateway has been added (I dunno if it functions... I have yet to test it out tonight), I keep getting a "(null): cannot open" error box (out-of-game) or something similar every time I click on my custom gateway in the "Gateway Upgrades" menu on the UISS. When I return to the game (I don't crash out, I just get sent to desktop), the box where my gateway's image is supposed to be is the black box with an "x" in it (i.e., for missing graphics) though I know there aren't any missing graphics... unless I must name the .tif's in a certain manner.

Okay, Miah and I investigated the world.dat check. Interestingly, it IS enabled. But if your world.dat doesn't exist, it assumes you're running the Steam version and just lets you run the game.

So we're just leaving that world.dat check as is. You can now install Onlink standalone with no code card and no world.dat. This may or may not be in violation of Introversion Software's policies, but since the same "bug" exists in their code, we're leaving it for now.

The next Onlink Update will default installation to C:\Program Files\Onlink instead of Uplink. Waiving the dependency on Uplink feels pretty good, actually.