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The comment stated:īelieve or not, after nearly 10 years since Hacx has been released, a version 2.0 is currently in production! As many of you may have noticed, the original game was released as, shall we say, a not quite complete product. In November 2008, Nostromo declared on the Hacx homepage that a new version of Hacx is being made. DOSBox Staging v0.77.1: This is included for convenient play with a batch menu with shortcuts, akin to GOG's DOS game installations.The batch menu used by DOSBox is configured to run this automatically NOVERT.COM: A tool that disables vertical mouse movement.DeHackEd: Comes with a custom INI file to specify the new executable and WAD names.SETUP.EXE: A hex-edited version of Chex Quest's setup program with names changed.HM.EXE: A version of DeathManager! version 1.5, edited to read and write from HM.DAT and HM.CFG respectively, compatible with the HACX.EXE launcher.This wasn't included on the official release and is thus custom made DHIPXSET.EXE: Like DHSERSET.EXE, but for the IPX protocol.DHSERSET.EXE: A hex-edited version of SERSETUP.EXE, designed to launch the aforementioned DHACX.EXE.HACX.EXE: The original HacX launcher that can launch singleplayer and multiplayer modes.It utilizes a custom executable called DHACX.EXE which unlike the official executable, embeds the DeHackEd patch, but it is also a executable hack where it includes HacX's custom quit messages found in the LANGUAGE lump. On OctoUDoom32 author OpenRift released a standalone version of Hacx 1.2 for DOS.

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This wiki's map articles are based on version 1.2.Ī 1.3 update is planned to fix a few bugs. The changes included making it as a stand-alone IWAD recognized by Chocolate Doom, Crispy Doom, Doomsday, EDGE, Eternity, GZDoom and ZDoom, but still compatible with other source ports (and even vanilla Doom if the DeHackEd lump is extracted and used for patching). Likewise, the exit room for MAP19 was removed.Īs a platform upon which to build Hacx 2.0, a 1.2 update of the original Hacx was released on October 9, 2010. MAP10 also had a terminal entrance similar to MAP05, but was removed. As a result, the proper secret exit was removed and the game always goes to MAP31. A few differences include MAP15 and MAP14 being swapped. The release was not an update from 1.0, but rather a downgrade to some version in the development history.

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Hacx 1.1 was the first free release of Hacx. Kevin Johnstone is currently employed at Epic Games.

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Zach Quarles went on to work at Raven Software and id Software. Later, he was employed as the art director at Microsoft Studios for Halo 4 (2012). Kenneth Scott has since worked as an artist at Ion Storm and id Software. Iikka Keränen (Fingers) went on to work at Looking Glass Studios, Ion Storm, Ritual Entertainment, Rogue Entertainment, and most recently, Valve Software.

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The Hacx CD and original disks are considered to be extremely rare, and have become a collector's item.įacing off with mutants in MAP06: Digi-Ota.ĭespite the game's commercial failure, some of its creators have since become successful and relatively well-known professional game developers.

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Hacx is now being distributed for free on its website kept online by Rich Johnston (Nostromo), one of the developers. The sprites and other graphics from Hacx have been reused in many other TCs/PCs since, despite Banjo Software having forbidden the use of Hacx's resources in other WADs.ĭevelopment started on a sequel using the Quake, Quake II, and later Unreal engines, but it failed due to a number of problems. Hacx was originally priced at $14.95 on a CD-ROM, and $20.95 on diskettes. Public interest for Doom and games derived from it was, effectively, dead even though Hacx was considered a decent TC, it arrived on the market too late to become a success. Hacx itself was generally unsuccessful by the time it was released, the superior Quake engine that had just come out made the Doom engine pale in comparison. Hacx uses a DeHackEd modified version of the Doom engine and the authors of Hacx paid id Software $5,000 for the rights to market Hacx as a commercial add-on for Doom II. It was released by Banjo Software on September 16, 1997, and featured an entirely new set of graphics. Hacx (pronounced 'hacks' and commonly written as HacX) is a total conversion for Doom II.