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Huma79 writes "Adrian O'Grady has successfully gotten TCP/IP and PPP working on his handheld Gameboy Advance for a web server. Pictures of the server running and a telnet session to it can be found at fivemouse.com."
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I'd like to see a program written for the Gamecube and/or PC(this includes macs, etc.) that allows you to connect your gameboy advance (for the gamecube there is already the GCN-GBA link) and play with other GBA players over the internet (when the NIC for the Gamebue is available) as if GBA's were directly linked.
Right now, I'm mainly thinking about playing Golden Sun against other people.
Does anyone else hear the rumble of Nintendo closing in on this poor chap? I think it's sad when I read something like this and I first think "Oh cool. That's really smart, useless but cool." and then I cringe thinking about people like him getting squashed in litigation. I got five bucks that says he gets a cease and desist letter...
/. pessimism. You decide.
Heh, that or I've been successfully turned to
--I hate big sigs.
If you're just going to sit there doing only "useful" stuff that's completely original, you aren't going to get much done.
Ryan T. Sammartino
"Ancora imparo"
Quite true that this is useless to you/the world, but to him, the person that did this, he has learned a great deal. I mean, what have you done? what "valuable" asset have you produced?
Yes, I'd agree. Probably the most useful things I did was to write a ROM ripper for the C-64 to read game cartridges, and a graphic printer driver for the MPS 802 printer (No mean feat - it only had one 8x8 graphic character per line - boy did that print head fly with all those carriage returns).
Point is, neither of those things were terribly useful. So what. They were fun. I don't look back at my youth with regret because I could have done something else with my time.
To be truthful, I'm rather envious of Adrian for having the skills to do this sort of thing.
Michael
There is no cryptographic solution to the problem where the intended receiver and the attacker are the same entity.
If you look way down on his web page, back to the october days, he starts by creating a multi-threading kernel, and then writing alternate A's and B's to the screen. This is what Linus did when he was testing his first attempt at multi-threading two processes.
/. effect :-)
If you read through the site, you get the idea he is learning all kinds of requisite CompSci skills along the way. That's good enough reason to do a project like this.
From a late night hacking session on 3rd April 2002: I believe this may be a world first. My GBA is currently connected to the Internet (yes, if I gave you the address, you could access it right now!).
Now, if he only would post that IP address, we could see how it stands up to the
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
It's called play. Most curious people learn through playing. A few people with Eric Cartman-like personalities, however, can't understand the concept.
What *I* really want is and ftp server, or SMB share, on my Clie (any palm, really). Sure would make grabbing stuff from it or putting stuff on it quite nice. It shouldn't be hard, somebody just has to write it...yeah, I know, but it's not so important to me to take my time away from other projects yet :)