Slashdot Mirror

There is a copy of lemmings for Palm available from ardiri.com. I have no connection to them except that I have wasted, I mean enjoyed many hours of playing this game.

author of the only Palm virus

it wasn't a virus, so, you probably need to get your facts straight on this one.

if you ever saw it, it was actually labelled as "Crack 1.1" [i didn't label it like this - but, thats how it ended up floating on efnet irc channels]. eventually, it came down to "if you run this, you are 100% intending to crack the program, that is, do something illegal". if you got burnt, bad luck. the correct term for such a little program is trojan horse, and, it required the user to intentfully do something illegal before it did anything.

hang out in the Palm channels on EfNet and give it out to people looking

actually, i was banned from #pdawarez - and, i wasn't the messanger for passing this onto other warez kiddies on irc. the user who posted it went under the name "mac" (and, he doesn't do irc anymore - so, good luck finding him).

he told the media a different story

actually, i told the truth. it was one of my more 'evil' thinking friends who though the discussion to make it go further would be more entertaining.. trust me, being hoarded by reporters isn't entertaining at all. the whole ordeal was so upsetting for me i focused my efforts on a new PDA (vtech helio) for six months to let the whole issue rest. this made a lot of other pda users happy - palm still survives though.

Its not like he sent it to Palm or any anti-virus companies before giving it out.

wrong, Palm knew about it way before. i called personally, they said "dont worry about it". anti-virus companies wanted to use it to exploit people into purchasing their software; why would we want that? if they dont have it, how can they justify the anti-virus software? and, you have no idea what type of research projects i have been involved with directly with Palm and their licensee's (current and future). some of the projects are so contraversal, i cannot even discuss them publically. and, i wont ever disclose such information to anyone.

if any of you attended the Defcon 8 Palm security talk, the presenter gave a rather nice break down of the protection scheme.

so, i guess you never saw the paper i wrote for PalmSource 2000 the same year. it also goes into detail about how the system worked for Liberty, the gameboy emulator. it wasn't too bad, no-one could trust the warez community after they were the ones publically saying "download this, lets destroy ardiri - its the first virus" and, users were confused about what was a real crack, and, what was a trojan - so, they purchased the full version. (extra + points for us dont you think)?

PalmSource 2000: Software Protection

anyhow, this whole crap was a media frenzy that went wild way over 2 years ago. what people also fail to realize is why i would personally do something so stupid to commit suicide professionally - if you were so smart, you would also realize my involvement in the palm community in regards to the development of PilRC. so, technically, if you boycott any product - maybe you shouldn't use PilRC. currently, over 85% of developers on the palmos platform depend on PilRC. life goes on. get over it.

i guess you dont even get into the concept of the |HaCkMe| program - which, i released them pulled. i must be so evil.

For the people who don't understand:

1. You buy a Sharp Zaurus.
2. You install the Palm emulator.
3. Then you install a gameboy emulator for PalmOS. (liberty)
4. Start playing Tetris. It can be done...

For the people who don't understand: 1. You buy a Sharp Zaurus. 2. You install the Palm emulator. 3. Then you install a gameboy emulator for PalmOS. (liberty) 4. Start playing Tetris. It can be done...

Lemmings are out for Palm. Another classic I would kill for is Civilization. I tried it again after years of pause, and it is charming and is still very playable.

• Software wants to be free. You should consider giving your software away. That is the best way.