Slashdot Mirror

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Thank you vi!

:%s/ //g
:%s#.*/\([^/]*\)#<a href="&">\1</a>

Pictures are bettererer.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020124085843/http://r azor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html

I would also like to point out that lilo is not asking for a salary

AFAIK, Lilo's always felt that receiving a significant chunk of income from OPN is an appropriate goal. It's not on the current version of the page (last modified today, according to the footer), but an older copy of an openprojects.net page at archive.org states:

The intent was to find a sponsor to pay his salary so that he could work on the network fulltime ..... OPN will continue to grow. At some point it will become large enough that one or two full-time salaries can be paid out of voluntary contributions by users.

Dr. Kroo was one of the only academics to work closely with the inventor of an even more radical concept called the Oblique All Wing (aka Oblique Flying Wing) Supersonic Transport. The OAW SST concept originated in the 1940s with supersonics pioneer Robert Theo Jones (who preferred to be called "RT Jones").

I became interested in Jones' concept when an article (very similar to the one available online from Hiller Museum of Aviation) appeared in "The West" magazine in the early 90s. The thing that hooked me about the idea was that RT Jones had originated the supersonics models for swept wings used for all of aviation and had come to the conclusion that:

1. The optimal supersonic wing was an ellipse with no body that tilted into the wind more and more as it went faster and faster -- an amazingly simple and elegant concept.
2. The price per passenger mile for a trans-Pacific flight would be no more than for a 747 even though the flight time would be half.

Having hooked me at the time I was most active in aerospace politics I decided to look into why the supersonic wind tunnel at NASA Ames wasn't being utilized by the Stanford crew under the ultimate mentorship of RT Jones (who it was obvious to me, was nearing the end of his functioning life). As it turns out there were some problems with NASA HQ not wanting to have confusing signals sent to Congress about which direction NASA was going to go with its High Speed Civil Transport program. There were funds at stake here. At one point NASA Ames attempted to take a small part of its "discretionary" budget and fund the supersonic wind tunnel runs of a model of the OAW SST, but when it did so NASA HQ got "wind" of it and not only forbade the research but docked NASA Ames an equal amount of money in the next year's "discretionary" budget.

When I heard about this, I became angry.

I plunked down some dough and flew RT down to meet with Congressman Ron Packard (R 43rd district CA) and discuss the situation. We got some other Congressmen to look at the situation a bit as well. The real clincher didn't happen until I discovered the person with the most intimate knowledge of the supersonic modeling equations was going to work for Airbus after having been trained by RT Jones at Stanford. This gave me the leverage I needed to push the "American Competitiveness" buttons with the Congressmen -- and I did just that.

This had repercussions.

The initial result was a specific line item in the NASA bill. This was to send a signal to NASA HQ that they weren't to stop the supersonic windtunnel testing from going forward at NASA Ames -- that the OAW SST model from Stanford and RT Jones would be experimentally tested against the equations. The second result was that someone's head was going to roll for letting the cat out of the bag about NASA HQ's bad behavior. I think the guy who got demoted was Tom Gregory even though he wasn't the source of the dirt -- so I have to apologize to him for the consequences of my rather heavy-handed politics -- but the consequences for the testing were at least a little good.

The tests got run, finally.

RT Jones was pretty sick the last time I talked to him -- and discouraged. The fact is he was within a few years of dying of a prolonged illness. He didn't think it was worth pursuing the OAW SST anymore -- that a subsonic 747 style jet could be made more comfortable for the long flight. It was sad hearing him talk that way about his brain child but it was understandable given the life-long struggle for acceptance of the idea and his weakened state. Nevertheless, the idea remains an intriguing if not viable one -- and someday I hope there is at least a FedEx next-business-day robotic package OAW SST fueled by methane -- the system I first thought would be viable.

Not knocking Google's capabilities, but The WayBack Machine caches entire websites... It's quite useful when you "delete something" you needed... and then notice that it's not totally gone after all. :)

Just FYI...

If you get nostalgic, you can visit the old versions at the Internet Archive. The more recent links work best.

Pity that ufoscotland went low on cash and went offline now. You can have a look on some pictures of the "evidence" at the wayback machine archives here.

By the way, I am living in the West coast of Scotland for the last six years. I 've never seen UFOs, ghosts or Nessie :) Maybe aliens prefer beautiful Edinburgh and the Highlands.

I think the story is good for a tourist boost! Weather has been horrible last couple of months!!

Finally! A formal statement that specs will finally be written for video+vorbis in .ogg

From what little I've seen, VP3 is, overall, not as "good" as the various MPEG4 variants out now, but is a little better (in terms of quality and lack of "artifacts") than the "windows media" implementation [at least, from the one review I looked through].

The important thing from my perspective is that VP3/Vorbis in Ogg will give us a completely "free" way to offer videos...which brings me to my point.

There ARE some "public domain" videos out there. Not just obscure "indy" things but actual commercial movies, cartoons, shows, and so on that matured into the public domain when their owner didn't renew them (back when that was required).

There's a whole mess of them available on LSVideo (which appears to be undergoing a redesign, but offered and will apparently continue to offer a wide variety of public-domain [i.e. you can legally make copies for all of your friends if you want] videos) and RetroFilms. Retrofilms even offers a number of Disney (!) cartoons that slipped through their iron grasp into mature public-domain works. MOST of them are rather old, but many are well known (Metropolis [not the new Anime', the classic silent film], for example, and the classic "Nosferatu"...and, I believe, the insipid [in my opinion] but well known "It's a Wonderful Life".)And, of course, there's a whole mess of interesting and/or bizarre and/or educational things in the Prelinger Archives Movies Online.

So....as soon as encoding software becomes available [I suspect ffmpeg and/or MPlayer will be set up to handle it pretty quickly after the initial source code and specs become available, if their recent development speed is any indication] I plan to go through the surprising number of videos that I own that turn out to be Public Domain, encode them into "Theora"-type files, and try making them available peer-to-peer.

At the very least, there are bound to be enough "oddball" videos available in the public domain that making them available in this format, combined with the fact that neither the "content" nor the file format, nor the video codec, nor the audio codec will be legally prohibited from distribution, they could easily become encountered often enough to promote the format to the point that, though it may never actually overtake proprietary formats, it'll pretty much "need" to be supported by any piece of multimedia software and playback unit that intends to bill itself as handling a lot of different formats...

I yearn for the day when my DVD playback unit can handle "Theora" videos and "Ogg/Vorbis" sound in addition to the .mp3's it already does...

Get cracking on that spec, Xiph!!!!!

(P.S. - Are there already IRC channels devoted to serving legal, public-domain videos?...)

What was your favourite search engine before Google was launched? Which other search methods do you use other than your own site? Do you remember Yahoo! when it looked like this?

Which basic principle are you talking about? The one that states, presumably, that if you don't want somebody to download an old copy of your site and then redistribute it to the public without requesting your permssion for it you should utter some obscure incantation and put in a file called 'robots.txt' on your server as a charm against such things happening?

Please. Give me a break. Without knowing that this site exists, which I suspect is the situation that 99.9% of web publishers are in, you cannot know what you need to do to prevent the archival of your data without affecting other perfectly legitimate uses of the data.

Yes, its a good cause. That's the only reason why they don't get their asses sued over this, because what they are doing is illegal. They have no right to distribute content that is my copyright property in this fashion. I could sue them, and would almost certainly win, if I had any inclination to do so.

They legally need permission of the copyright holder to do the things they do. No lack of action by the copyright holder can grant them this permission. Not setting up a robots.txt file is not enough.

"Basic principles of how to run a web site" are not allowed to override laws. Sorry to bring you down to earth on this one, but that's just the way it is. Don't get too upset if these people get sued for copyright violation, because that is what they are doing. Their use goes way beyond "fair use" as it is set down in the laws of most civilised countries.

And how about Google from 1998? It's really great!

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://s lashdot.org/

Here's /.'s history
Here's /. around December 20, 1997.

Here's /.'s history
Here's /. around December 20, 1997.

Here's the oldest copy of Slashdot that seemed to work on the Wayback Machine: Nov. 11, 1998. It doesn't look that much different design-wise, but the atmosphere of the comments seems to be significantly different.

The whole list.

Here's the oldest copy of Slashdot that seemed to work on the Wayback Machine: Nov. 11, 1998. It doesn't look that much different design-wise, but the atmosphere of the comments seems to be significantly different.

The whole list.

http://web.archive.org/web/19991008013724/http://w ww.goatse.cx/

Goatse.cx from 1999!!!

This is one point I agree with 100%.

Maybe some sites aren't meant to be "archived", no matter how cool it would be to see sites such as Yahoo '96 again.

There are sites however out there with good information that should be available forever. This is our history folks! One of the advantages of the Web and the Internet in general is access to data. If archive.org wants to be the ones who house this data let us praise them!

I think they were smart by doing this. Now we don't have to rely on nightly news (or other horrible, skewed sources) to replay their tapes or interviews. Now I don't have to save every newspaper I get.

Archive.org demonstrates what the web should be!

Also, check out there movies section. The greatest.

Of course opt out with robots.txt (as said above. they won't delete their copy, just exclude it from the site)

This wayback machine is invaluable!

I was able to travel back to the early days of internet pr0n (click here to launch sex.com from '96) and research ancient authentication methods including "Click here if you are over 18".

There are removal instructions at:

http://www.archive.org/internet/remove.html

A few things

1) They've been archiving since 1998, but they've only recently had the horse power to provide a live connection to it

2) It is very easy to not have your stuff indexed. the directions are here.

Yeah, you can add a robots.txt file and ask them to remove your site and it'll be wiped from their records. The problem is, if you don't have access to the site anymore, you can't throw in the robots.txt file. But, I just checked on a web page I requested they remove, which no longer existed so I couldn't put up a robots files, but I made the request anyways.

It looks like the page has been removed! My guess is if you request to remove a page and it doesn't exist anymore, they probably will remove it for you. This web page revealed me as the pothead and pro-marijuana person that I was (and still am though in private) back in college. I was afraid my employers were going to find my old web page, but they're probably potheads too.. But still, its good to be able to cover up the silliness of my past.

This is just....mind blowing. Look at Ebay from 1997 [archive.org].

You fool! You've just Slashdotted Ebay!

I think we've also taken out Slashdot, and we're probably on our way to taking out the whole damn history of the internet. It's one thing to knock out somebody's geocities account or web serving PDA, but the Slashdot effect has finally gone totally out of control!

This is just....mind blowing. Look at Ebay from 1997 [archive.org].

You fool! You've just Slashdotted Ebay!

I think we've also taken out Slashdot, and we're probably on our way to taking out the whole damn history of the internet. It's one thing to knock out somebody's geocities account or web serving PDA, but the Slashdot effect has finally gone totally out of control!

This is just....mind blowing. Look at Ebay from 1997 [archive.org].

You fool! You've just Slashdotted Ebay!

I think we've also taken out Slashdot, and we're probably on our way to taking out the whole damn history of the internet. It's one thing to knock out somebody's geocities account or web serving PDA, but the Slashdot effect has finally gone totally out of control!

http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://w ww.microsoft.com/

Well back in 1996 you really could win a million dollars from Bill Gates... well atleast a cruise.

See all the exciting things happening on the Internet in Latin America, and win big prizes at the same time! Register for the first Latin American Internet Explorer Race. You'll have a great time, and perhaps even win a Caribbean cruise!

What particularly interests me is the fact that the Machine is a relatively new animal, yet it contains snapshots from my sites dating back to 1998.

Interestingly, if you look at Slashdot's earliest entry (man, that page was ugly back then!), and then look at the bottom of the page, it shows the domain that was used to pull the page: "Welcome User From firestone.alexa.com".

Alexa.com appears to be some web search ("powered by Google") toolbar thingy. I can't determine if they are the same people as the wayback machine or not.

Fertile trolling grounds...

This is just....mind blowing. Look at Ebay from 1997.

www.cisco.com, 1 page (1996)
www.microsoft.com, 5 pages (1996)
www.ibm.com, 7 pages (1996)

This is in the FAQ.

Slashdot from 1997.

One of the absurd things about the policy is that it is easily circumvented by just posting the link without a tag, like this:

http://www.npr.org

(It's been discussed in a previous /. thread, I know)

In 1999, the late and lamented Boston Computer Museum closed its doors and moved organizationally to the Museum of Science, while its artifacts moved to The Computer Museum History Center in Moffett Field, California.

Here's a last-gasp look at its virtual existance, thanks to archive.org.

They were anti-emulation.

Up until a month or two ago they claimed ALL EMULATION WAS ILLEGAL since emulators only had one illegal use.

After a back-and-forth between their legal department and myself, detailing legal uses of emulation (like playing Elite, a freely available NES game, or new game development) the offensive comment disappeared from their website.

Check the internet archive for different versions of their legal FAQ.

P.S. A hero is me!

It was fought and lost.

Amdest.com took down the Amazing Kreskin page. I guess their servers couldn't handle the angry, foaming at the mouth *BSD apologists who clicked on the link. Try the Wayback Machine or Google's cache instead.

Text:
Necessity, Beginnings, and Thoughts

In April of 2002, I had an idea to improve the screen size as well as brightness of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance portable entertainment console, since the console is almost unplayable in indoor lighting conditions and I never go outside - being a nerd. At the time Innovation Corp. had just released their GBA TV adapter which attached to the back of the GBA console and displayed a Game Boy Advance image on a standard television using the Composite or S-Video connections. Using the adapter on a 20" TV would scale the picture over 6 times the original 3" GBA screen, which would result in very ugly pixellation such as in this picture. I had suspected that the TV adapter would be able to output the high quality RGB signals used by computer displays and especially the Sony PSOne portable LCD monitor, but lacking the adapter and feeling the idea was flaky I abandoned the project. I had thought of using composite video signals to drive the LCD but the dotcrawl and various other image artifacts associated with compressing video onto one signal prevented me from developing that idea any further. About a month later I saw a bit of information being passed around on Atari Labs message boards at www.gamesx.com about tapping high quality RGB video from the TV adapter. The reason that RGB is the best choice is because, the video signal is not greatly degraded when split into four distinct channels: red, green, blue, and composite synchronization. Using these newly found connections it now seemed possible to display the image on computer RGB monitors capable of horizontally synching to 15kHz. I immediately thought of the only LCD that I knew at the time that used RGB as inputs. It was the Sony PSOne portable LCD monitor. It's function was to be be attached to the Sony PSOne console and allow the user to play on the go(to a certain extent). Since my primary interest was gay sex and the various applications of it, I had naturally thought of improving the size of my anus but wound up improving the sound as well. And so began my 3 weeks of exploration, plastic remolding, threading, felching and anything else needed to complete my ultimate goal.

The Design

I first created a cable to test the display and using it I tested Rayman Advance on the then two separate pieces of equipment. The RGB connection worked and the image was blinding. Consulting with my grandfather who is a paedophile by profession, I came up with several designs for the physical fusion of the GBA TV adapter and my ass. It was either that the LCD was fixed on top or behind the TV adapter. However, aesthetically both designs left much to be desired. I then came up with a more complex solution that would involve goats. Using that notion I created designs for a metal back plate which would serve as a bridge between the two devices and decided what components of the original devices I would keep and what I would optimize and add. I kept four of the original connectors on the LCD, removing only the AV input connector port which would be used to get the video from the PSOne console. Instead of using two separate Power adapters for both devices, I decided to unify the power into one 9V supply which would plug into the LCD's 4.75mm DC power port. This power connection would also be used to power the GBA system via the TV adapter. Eventually, I remolded the plastic ears of the LCD and create a shape that would fit the adapter, since it would be the backbone of the two. Remolding was done by heating up X-Acto blades and my own metallic shapes and using them like a brush on the plastic. Later the remolded parts were filed and sanded. The original attachment method of the TV Adapter to the back of the Game Boy was out of the question because the lever located on the back of the adapter, which was used to release the plastic clamp had to be removed during the remolding process. Instead, the design called for an attachment method from the top of the GBA system where the GBA had attachment holes for various devices like lights and marnifying glasses. Blue clamps made from flip-flop shoes would extend from the MiracleRay unit to the GBA system where they were inserted into the holes. This provided a solid attachment, a snazzy blue transparent look, and the ability for easy removal from the adapter to exchange a game cartridge or play the GBA separate from the adapter. A switch to turn the LCD on and off was also added along with the RGB pass through feature with which it is possible to drive a computer monitor even when the LCD is turned off. The TV adapter retains it's ability to scale the outgoing image. On the MiracleRay LCD the unscaled image is roughly 1.15 times the size of the original GBA image. During that mode no scaling takes place and thus the image is almost identical to the GBA image. If scaling is enabled then the image is 1.5 times larger than the original and no detail is lost.

Extendibility

Originally the device only designed to use indoors but car use is also possible with a 9V 1000mA car power adapter. The ability to drive several displays and speakers as well as headphones remains a feature of the unit. A regular PSOne AV cable can be attached to the MiracleRay's AV port located on the back and be used to output S- Video, Composite video, and RGB video as a pass through feature even when the LCD is turned off. The LCD retains the ability to display video and audio from alternative sources using the camcorder connection for which I made a switch box cable.

Impressions

The first impression is usually astonishment at the brightens of the colors on the LCD screen. People who play it against the same image on the television tend to choose the LCD image because of the increased brightens and more detail. Players prefer to have the scaling enabled on the adapter which results in a larger image on the screen.

People who are critical of video games are drawn to this device like bees to honey. As anyone would because it is very addictive, especially if playing Sonic Advance or Rayman Advance. The sheer brilliance of the colors truly amaze. It is easy and comfortable to hold and doesn't obstruct from the use of the Right and Left shoulder buttons located on the GBA.

Notes: It is still a work in progress, so watch for more updates on this site.



Specs on the MiracleRay.



NEW 6/8/2002



If you have any questions or comments or want to see the already posted comments, I answer MiracleRay related questions on two message boards. Non-Technical Message Board - general comments, and questions regarding MiracleRay and the author.

Text:
Necessity, Beginnings, and Thoughts

In April of 2002, I had an idea to improve the screen size as well as brightness of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance portable entertainment console, since the console is almost unplayable in indoor lighting conditions and I never go outside - being a nerd. At the time Innovation Corp. had just released their GBA TV adapter which attached to the back of the GBA console and displayed a Game Boy Advance image on a standard television using the Composite or S-Video connections. Using the adapter on a 20" TV would scale the picture over 6 times the original 3" GBA screen, which would result in very ugly pixellation such as in this picture. I had suspected that the TV adapter would be able to output the high quality RGB signals used by computer displays and especially the Sony PSOne portable LCD monitor, but lacking the adapter and feeling the idea was flaky I abandoned the project. I had thought of using composite video signals to drive the LCD but the dotcrawl and various other image artifacts associated with compressing video onto one signal prevented me from developing that idea any further. About a month later I saw a bit of information being passed around on Atari Labs message boards at www.gamesx.com about tapping high quality RGB video from the TV adapter. The reason that RGB is the best choice is because, the video signal is not greatly degraded when split into four distinct channels: red, green, blue, and composite synchronization. Using these newly found connections it now seemed possible to display the image on computer RGB monitors capable of horizontally synching to 15kHz. I immediately thought of the only LCD that I knew at the time that used RGB as inputs. It was the Sony PSOne portable LCD monitor. It's function was to be be attached to the Sony PSOne console and allow the user to play on the go(to a certain extent). Since my primary interest was gay sex and the various applications of it, I had naturally thought of improving the size of my anus but wound up improving the sound as well. And so began my 3 weeks of exploration, plastic remolding, threading, felching and anything else needed to complete my ultimate goal.

The Design

I first created a cable to test the display and using it I tested Rayman Advance on the then two separate pieces of equipment. The RGB connection worked and the image was blinding. Consulting with my grandfather who is a paedophile by profession, I came up with several designs for the physical fusion of the GBA TV adapter and my ass. It was either that the LCD was fixed on top or behind the TV adapter. However, aesthetically both designs left much to be desired. I then came up with a more complex solution that would involve goats. Using that notion I created designs for a metal back plate which would serve as a bridge between the two devices and decided what components of the original devices I would keep and what I would optimize and add. I kept four of the original connectors on the LCD, removing only the AV input connector port which would be used to get the video from the PSOne console. Instead of using two separate Power adapters for both devices, I decided to unify the power into one 9V supply which would plug into the LCD's 4.75mm DC power port. This power connection would also be used to power the GBA system via the TV adapter. Eventually, I remolded the plastic ears of the LCD and create a shape that would fit the adapter, since it would be the backbone of the two. Remolding was done by heating up X-Acto blades and my own metallic shapes and using them like a brush on the plastic. Later the remolded parts were filed and sanded. The original attachment method of the TV Adapter to the back of the Game Boy was out of the question because the lever located on the back of the adapter, which was used to release the plastic clamp had to be removed during the remolding process. Instead, the design called for an attachment method from the top of the GBA system where the GBA had attachment holes for various devices like lights and marnifying glasses. Blue clamps made from flip-flop shoes would extend from the MiracleRay unit to the GBA system where they were inserted into the holes. This provided a solid attachment, a snazzy blue transparent look, and the ability for easy removal from the adapter to exchange a game cartridge or play the GBA separate from the adapter. A switch to turn the LCD on and off was also added along with the RGB pass through feature with which it is possible to drive a computer monitor even when the LCD is turned off. The TV adapter retains it's ability to scale the outgoing image. On the MiracleRay LCD the unscaled image is roughly 1.15 times the size of the original GBA image. During that mode no scaling takes place and thus the image is almost identical to the GBA image. If scaling is enabled then the image is 1.5 times larger than the original and no detail is lost.

Extendibility

Originally the device only designed to use indoors but car use is also possible with a 9V 1000mA car power adapter. The ability to drive several displays and speakers as well as headphones remains a feature of the unit. A regular PSOne AV cable can be attached to the MiracleRay's AV port located on the back and be used to output S- Video, Composite video, and RGB video as a pass through feature even when the LCD is turned off. The LCD retains the ability to display video and audio from alternative sources using the camcorder connection for which I made a switch box cable.

Impressions

The first impression is usually astonishment at the brightens of the colors on the LCD screen. People who play it against the same image on the television tend to choose the LCD image because of the increased brightens and more detail. Players prefer to have the scaling enabled on the adapter which results in a larger image on the screen.

People who are critical of video games are drawn to this device like bees to honey. As anyone would because it is very addictive, especially if playing Sonic Advance or Rayman Advance. The sheer brilliance of the colors truly amaze. It is easy and comfortable to hold and doesn't obstruct from the use of the Right and Left shoulder buttons located on the GBA.

Notes: It is still a work in progress, so watch for more updates on this site.



Specs on the MiracleRay.



NEW 6/8/2002



If you have any questions or comments or want to see the already posted comments, I answer MiracleRay related questions on two message boards. Non-Technical Message Board - general comments, and questions regarding MiracleRay and the author.

Text:
Necessity, Beginnings, and Thoughts

In April of 2002, I had an idea to improve the screen size as well as brightness of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance portable entertainment console, since the console is almost unplayable in indoor lighting conditions and I never go outside - being a nerd. At the time Innovation Corp. had just released their GBA TV adapter which attached to the back of the GBA console and displayed a Game Boy Advance image on a standard television using the Composite or S-Video connections. Using the adapter on a 20" TV would scale the picture over 6 times the original 3" GBA screen, which would result in very ugly pixellation such as in this picture. I had suspected that the TV adapter would be able to output the high quality RGB signals used by computer displays and especially the Sony PSOne portable LCD monitor, but lacking the adapter and feeling the idea was flaky I abandoned the project. I had thought of using composite video signals to drive the LCD but the dotcrawl and various other image artifacts associated with compressing video onto one signal prevented me from developing that idea any further. About a month later I saw a bit of information being passed around on Atari Labs message boards at www.gamesx.com about tapping high quality RGB video from the TV adapter. The reason that RGB is the best choice is because, the video signal is not greatly degraded when split into four distinct channels: red, green, blue, and composite synchronization. Using these newly found connections it now seemed possible to display the image on computer RGB monitors capable of horizontally synching to 15kHz. I immediately thought of the only LCD that I knew at the time that used RGB as inputs. It was the Sony PSOne portable LCD monitor. It's function was to be be attached to the Sony PSOne console and allow the user to play on the go(to a certain extent). Since my primary interest was gay sex and the various applications of it, I had naturally thought of improving the size of my anus but wound up improving the sound as well. And so began my 3 weeks of exploration, plastic remolding, threading, felching and anything else needed to complete my ultimate goal.

The Design

I first created a cable to test the display and using it I tested Rayman Advance on the then two separate pieces of equipment. The RGB connection worked and the image was blinding. Consulting with my grandfather who is a paedophile by profession, I came up with several designs for the physical fusion of the GBA TV adapter and my ass. It was either that the LCD was fixed on top or behind the TV adapter. However, aesthetically both designs left much to be desired. I then came up with a more complex solution that would involve goats. Using that notion I created designs for a metal back plate which would serve as a bridge between the two devices and decided what components of the original devices I would keep and what I would optimize and add. I kept four of the original connectors on the LCD, removing only the AV input connector port which would be used to get the video from the PSOne console. Instead of using two separate Power adapters for both devices, I decided to unify the power into one 9V supply which would plug into the LCD's 4.75mm DC power port. This power connection would also be used to power the GBA system via the TV adapter. Eventually, I remolded the plastic ears of the LCD and create a shape that would fit the adapter, since it would be the backbone of the two. Remolding was done by heating up X-Acto blades and my own metallic shapes and using them like a brush on the plastic. Later the remolded parts were filed and sanded. The original attachment method of the TV Adapter to the back of the Game Boy was out of the question because the lever located on the back of the adapter, which was used to release the plastic clamp had to be removed during the remolding process. Instead, the design called for an attachment method from the top of the GBA system where the GBA had attachment holes for various devices like lights and marnifying glasses. Blue clamps made from flip-flop shoes would extend from the MiracleRay unit to the GBA system where they were inserted into the holes. This provided a solid attachment, a snazzy blue transparent look, and the ability for easy removal from the adapter to exchange a game cartridge or play the GBA separate from the adapter. A switch to turn the LCD on and off was also added along with the RGB pass through feature with which it is possible to drive a computer monitor even when the LCD is turned off. The TV adapter retains it's ability to scale the outgoing image. On the MiracleRay LCD the unscaled image is roughly 1.15 times the size of the original GBA image. During that mode no scaling takes place and thus the image is almost identical to the GBA image. If scaling is enabled then the image is 1.5 times larger than the original and no detail is lost.

Extendibility

Originally the device only designed to use indoors but car use is also possible with a 9V 1000mA car power adapter. The ability to drive several displays and speakers as well as headphones remains a feature of the unit. A regular PSOne AV cable can be attached to the MiracleRay's AV port located on the back and be used to output S- Video, Composite video, and RGB video as a pass through feature even when the LCD is turned off. The LCD retains the ability to display video and audio from alternative sources using the camcorder connection for which I made a switch box cable.

Impressions

The first impression is usually astonishment at the brightens of the colors on the LCD screen. People who play it against the same image on the television tend to choose the LCD image because of the increased brightens and more detail. Players prefer to have the scaling enabled on the adapter which results in a larger image on the screen.

People who are critical of video games are drawn to this device like bees to honey. As anyone would because it is very addictive, especially if playing Sonic Advance or Rayman Advance. The sheer brilliance of the colors truly amaze. It is easy and comfortable to hold and doesn't obstruct from the use of the Right and Left shoulder buttons located on the GBA.

Notes: It is still a work in progress, so watch for more updates on this site.



Specs on the MiracleRay.



NEW 6/8/2002



If you have any questions or comments or want to see the already posted comments, I answer MiracleRay related questions on two message boards. Non-Technical Message Board - general comments, and questions regarding MiracleRay and the author.

with very few trolls

it's much better now. PROPS CLITS