Read every page of Hy Help. Now you can pretend you read it before asking.

Earn your first dollar that wasn't a starting handout. printf("$1\\n") returned 0.

Stash $1,000. Enough for a 486DX2 with a SoundBlaster and change for a CD-ROM drive.

Stash $10,000. Time to upgrade to a Pentium tower. The kind with the turbo button.

Stash $100,000. You are now financially indistinguishable from a real software company.

Release your first product. Don't worry about the bugs. The customers will find them for you.

Release 5 products. Your back catalogue now needs its own folder.

Release 15 products. The shareware CD-ROM publishers know your name.

Catch your first virus. Welcome to the 90s, where the internet is a minefield and you are not wearing boots.

Remove a virus from your machine. Crisis averted. Time to back up to floppies.

Clear 3 viruses. You are starting to recognise the symptoms before the symptoms recognise you.

Stay virus-free for 30 in-game days. Whatever you are doing, keep doing it.

Unlock your first skill node. The compiler is starting to respect you.

Own 10 skill nodes. The myth becomes the man.

Own 25 skill nodes. Your brain has officially run out of free heap.

Open your first classified dossier. The truth is in the .DAT files.

Survive 1996. The new year ticks over. The COBOL guys are starting to get nervous.

Send your first virus deployment. The mailing list never knew what hit them.

Deliver your first underground contract. Definitely-not-cash changes hands.

Reach skill level 5 on any clicker / file node. The Makefile is yours to command.

Own the Supporter Pack. You shipped the dev a beer. He noticed.