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Porting Games From Binary
CowboyRobot writes "My favorite Slashdot links are those that inspire me to embark on meaningless and time-consuming quests. This is one of them. Two Canadian game developers at Digital Eclipse have a thorough explanation of how to port a game using nothing but the binary stream coming out of the cartridge. They use the TRS-80 and Phantasy Star III as examples."
Trolling is a art,
They're in unary, you insensitive clod!
It was the worst of the series.
What? Someone found yet another way to make a copy of 'Rygar'?
Damnable geeks.
inspire me to embark on meaningless and time-consuming quests
This is as close to having a girlfriend as the average Slashdotter can get.
Wow, those guys ARE good. They even ported their company web server to a TRS-80.
But some areas of the code still need work:
int fork() { return 1; }
My favorite Slashdot links are those that go down within about 12.5 seconds of showing up on the front page. I know I must be missing something really great!
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