| From: | "David E. Smith" <dave@********.ML.ORG> |
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| Subject: | DeckOS (was: Re: Rigger 2 Questions & Problems) |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:49:33 +0000 |
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Adam J wrote:
> PGP is not all that hard to crack, especially with ample CPU power and
> time. There are utilities to do it on every platform, and I'm fairly
> certain the source code is freely available. There would surely be things
> like this in 205x.
You sure have a funny definition of `ample' ... :-)
> If I had the right box, I could toss an Nintendo cart into it, save it to a
> ROM file, and run it with any of the masses of publically avaiable
> emulators. Same with most console systems and arcade systems -- I'm fairly
If you own the game, just get the ROM from one of the plentiful net sites.
> certain there's a Playstation emulator that you can just drop the
> Playstation game into your computer and play it. Slow as hell though.
There's not a good one yet, but there is some interesting work being done.
One of the PSX emulator teams is working with dynamic recompilation; the
net result is that, on a hefty PC (PPro MMX 200 at least) the emulated
games run _faster_ than the originals. :)
> As for the software and hardware differences -- can you find a working
> Atari 2600? A copy of the standup arcade game "Wrestlefest?"
Yes, and no. Got a 2600 in the back room. And I plan to still be alive in
2050, and I'll probably still think that Pitfall is more fun than Doom. :)
(Look! here's the on-topic stuff! Told 'ya.)
ObShadowRN: Personally, I don't go for most of this OS incompatibility
drek. Makes for some interesting theoretical discussion, but just gets in
the way of gameplay. I'm still trying to find a good way to work deckers
into the game without having to stop everything else for fifteen to thirty
minutes while the decker does her thing. I figure that, for the most part,
this stuff would be taken care of by higher level protocols (kinda like
TCP/IP, which works on my Linux box, my Win95 box, the school's old IBM
mainframe, and so on.) And any decker worthy of the name would know how to
deal with the minor incompatibilities.
dave "gladly accepting donations of old 2600 games"
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