The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

EXAPUNKS

My solutions to the game EXAPUNKS by Zachtronics in which you need to solve puzzles by writing tiny programs in an assembly-like language.

Missing the bonus campaign and achievements (didn't even knew there was any!), might add them eventually, I had so much fun! Will have to play other Zachtronics games as well.

There is no earth-shattering records here, I was playing for fun, aiming to get the less cycles. My solution to the last challenge is particulary bad (and interesting!) but I wanted to finish the game (might revisit it someday).

Also include a quick .solution (game's file format) parser to auto-generate this repo.

Each of the solutions also include the auto-generated GIFs as well

Zines

• Issue #1 (language reference starts at page 14)
• Issue #2

Solutions

Level	Cycles	Size	Activity
1: Trash World News (Tutorial 1)	4	3	2
2: Trash World News (Tutorial 2)	7	6	2
3: Trash World News (Tutorial 3)	9	12	4
4: Trash World News (Tutorial 4)	305	11	2
5: Euclid's Pizza (Order System)	25	16	1
6: Mitsuzen HDI-10 (Left Arm)	241	23	6
7: Last Stop Snaxnet (Factory 11)	33	13	2
8: Zebros Copies (Point-Of-Sale System)	102	34	4
9: SFCTA Highway Sign #4902 (Remote Access Interface)	168	26	1
10: Unknown Network 1 (Unknown Context)	29	23	27
11: UC Berkeley (EECS Department)	424	36	7
12: Workhouse (Work Management System)	516	29	2
13: Equity First Bank (San Fancisco)	4007	34	10
14: Mitsuzen HDI-10 (Heart)	107	35	7
15: Trash World News (Unknown Context)	1920	47	4
16: TEC Redshift (Development Kit)	11902	37	4
17: Digital Library Project (Patron Access System)	1312	50	74
18: TEC EXA-Blaster Modem (Radio Stations)	1513	68	17
19: Emerson's Guide (Streetsmarts GIS Database)	52	42	6
20: Mitsuzen HDI-10 (Left Hand)	274	51	601
21: Sawayama Wonderdisc (Drive Controller)	7320	53	63
22: Alliance Power and Light (Streetsmarts GIS Database)	36	50	20
23: Xtreme League Baseball (Player Database)	3916	53	1
24: King's Ransom Online (US West Realm)	335	38	25
25: KGOG-TV (Satellite Uplink)	742	100	9
26: Equity First Bank (San Francisco - ATMs Offline)	446	70	6
27: TEC EXA-Blaster Modem (Dataphone Network)	2877	57	18
28: Last Stop Snaxnet (Warehouse 27)	421	98	26
29: Mitsuzen HDI-10 (Visual Cortex)	402	63	12
30: Holman Dynamics (Sales System)	12837	71	3
31: US Government (Fema Genetic Database)	2042	132	87
32: Unknown Network 2 (Unknown Context)	429	32	56
33: TEC EXA-Blaster Modem (Pager Network)	970	58	26
34: Mitsuzen HDI-10 (Cerebral Cortex)	2229	143	16

Battle	Wins	Draws	Losses	Rating
1: KGOG-TV (Programming Hub)	100	0	0	S+
2: Valhalla (=Plastered)	100	0	0	S+
3: Deadlock's Domain (Deadlock)	100	0	0	S+
4: The Wormhole (X10X10X)	100	0	0	S+
5: Aberdeen (selenium_wolf)	100	0	0	S+

Bonus campaign level	Cycles	Size	Activity
1: Bloodlust Online (US East Realm)	397	122	26
2: Motor Vehicle Administration (Scheduling System)	653	80	7
3: Cybermyth Studios (Accounting System)	827	235	19
4: US Department of Defense (USAF Secure Facility)	32928	135	8689
5: Netronics NET40 Modem (The Wardialer)	96093	95	187
6: Española Valley High School (School Management System)	0	0	0
7: Mitsuzen D300-N (Personal Storage Array)	0	0	0
8: Crystalair International (Ticketing System)	0	0	0
9: Your Computer (Unknown Context)	0	0	0

Save files location

Gamepass PC:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\58020AllianceMetaversalSt.EXAPUNKS_j78hpz8e66gfw\SystemAppData\xgs\0009000000DE7310_00000000000000000000000065287F60\all

Windows:

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\EXAPUNKS\<user-id>\

Mac:

$HOME/Library/Application Support/EXAPUNKS/<user-id>/

Linux:

~/.local/share/EXAPUNKS/<user-id>/

TODO

• Generate circa 1997 geocities static html pages
• Achievements
• Bonus Levels
• Nonograms