Gateway = Your own PC?

[IceFoxx]

I know quite much about PC's but still I am not a specialist.
One thing is that I dont know the detailed explanation of a Gateway, but ingame the parts look to me like pc stuff (RAM, Processor, etc), so is it just your own pc (ingame) ?

And what do I need motion sensors for, in a hacking game? All happens online, or?

[Aurora Yukihime]

The Gateway is a virtual ("not-real" in my Physics class) machine that has no physical existance. Trust me, assuming a gigaquad is one gigabyte, you won't have fun with a 16Gq harddrive - unless you're in the 1980s! Additionally, buying extra hardware or another gateway in game will not alter your physical computer - as, again, there is no correlation between the two.

The game is not online at all, and all action takes place on it's own simulated "internet" of sorts. The motion sensors are used to detect federal agents that approach your non-physical gateway, in a non-physical building, with their non-physical wire cutters so you can have time to react, such as exploding a non-physical imaginary explosive device.

[The Longest Rose]

The Gateway computer is the computer your PC connects to so you can hack people without getting caught, keeping in mind that, as Yuyuko said, all action takes place on a simulated internet. The parts are simply the parts of your Gateway.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Yuyuko Saigyouji:

Trust me, assuming a gigaquad is one gigabyte, you won't have fun with a 16Gq harddrive - unless you're in the 1980s! .

The term comes from Star Trek, and isn't comparable to bytes, as the Star Trek computers (mostly) do not use binary code.

[IceFoxx]

Thanks Portaller
Finally an answer in short, easy-to-understand words =)

besides: in the 80's we weren't even dreaming of GigaByte-big Harddrives. My PC that time had 66MHz and 420MB HDD.... and was one of the best (those time)

[Aurora Yukihime]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από the Portaller:

The term comes from Star Trek, and isn't comparable to bytes, as the Star Trek computers (mostly) do not use binary code.

I know the reference, but just made the comparison for an example. Good to hear there's another one that knows that though~

[4onen]

The "gateway" computer is just a small server rack in the fictional world somewhere in one of Uplink Corp's buildings.
You're using a remote-desktop application (the game) to connect to the gateway PC in the fictional world.
If the feds break into the building to gain access to the computer, Uplink deletes all records of your account, so they can tell the feds someone snuck this computer hardware into their servers unaware.
A gateway nuke destroys your hardware (and its serial numbers) when the feds come looking, letting you keep your Uplink agent account.

So in the fictional world, the gateway computer does exist.

[arbayer2]

An easy way of understanding the entire Internet infrastructure in Uplink is by comparing it to that which existed in GTA IV/V: a somewhat convincing parody that's fun to mess around with even though it's compartmentalized from everyone else IRL.

(well, with the exception of the stock market in V, anyhow)

Within the setting of the game, a Gateway is essentially a proxy server you access remotely in a manner which grants you as a player plausible deniability against the legal repercussions of your hacking, although the financial repercussions are still something you have to keep in mind (unless you're playing with Onlink and a certain Gateway upgrade).

[Nellvan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από IceFoxx:

besides: in the 80's we weren't even dreaming of GigaByte-big Harddrives. My PC that time had 66MHz and 420MB HDD.... and was one of the best (those time)

90's you mean, surely? Or I'm seriously misremembering the range available back then. Had (access to) a 386-25MHz in 91 or 92 (100 MB hdd). I think 486-33 MHz was already available but still really expensive.

[Mordok McHale]

IBM Corsair 0663 in 1990 had 1GB storage space, but in early 80-is, yes, storage space was 10-40 MB.