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SpecOps Labs offers $10,000 to Emulator Developers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keep-em-emulated dept.

mparaz writes "SpecOps Labs, the makers of the "David" Windows emulator previously accused of ripping off WINE, are offering $10,000 to a team who can build a Windows XP emulator in 15 days. " This whole thing reads really strangely to me.

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  1. 15 days by Spodlink05 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Judging by the quality of XP, it was written in 15 days too.

    1. Re:15 days by sn0wflake · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, even the MS-DOS GUI is pretty similar to the Linux console.

  2. I wonder... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    How much would the pay for a Linux emulator running on Windows XP?

    must be able to run David in it.

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    1. Re:I wonder... by Whyzzi · · Score: 3, Funny
      How much would the pay for a Linux emulator running on Windows XP?
       
        must be able to run David in it.

      Hey! I have a brother named David! If I take a movie of him repeating saying "i am a linux emulator" while he runs in place ontop a retail box of Microsoft XP, do I get $10,000?

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      "BSD is about people pissing each other.." (Moid Vallat)
  3. MS v.s. Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft dev time making Windows: 10 years.

    Linux dev time making Windows: 15 days.
     

  4. Maybe.. by Sir+Pallas · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..it'll run on this optical laptop.

  5. In Unrelated News... by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny

    SpecOps Labs insists that this has nothing to do with the fact that they have told their investors that the company will have a completed Windows emulator product fifteen days from now...

    1. Re:In Unrelated News... by op12 · · Score: 5, Funny

      And that they need to borrow $10000.

  6. I'll give $5... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll give $5 to the first team to write an X-Box 360 emulator for Windows, but you have to have it finished in 3 days.

    Any takers?

    1. Re:I'll give $5... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Man, you guys got it lucky. In my day, we got $2 and 12 hours to write a Playstation 3 emulator in Visual Basic for use on a SNES.

    2. Re:I'll give $5... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 4, Funny

      You whippersnappers, thinking you've got it hard. Back in my day, we had to write a Dreamcast emulator in Win95 Solitaire (with fully working audio) each and every day using keyboards with only Q, 8, ) and Scroll Lock on 'em. And our mice didn't have fancy multiple axes on 'em like you young punks have, we had to make do with just X! After a 16 hour shift the only reward we got was a slap round the face with a huge trout, on both cheeks, but we were glad for it! Visual Basic? Luxury!

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  7. you knew it was coming... by Viper+Daimao · · Score: 5, Funny
    System.out.println(bsod.gif);

    Do I win?
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    1. Re:you knew it was coming... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

      Isn't gif still proprietary or licensed or something?

      You should use png instead ;)

      32 bit alpha transparent goodness, just like vista will have.

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  8. Re:Gentoo?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    At the end of their 15 day time allotment, Apache will have finished compiling for you. All clear now?

  9. Obg. Star Trek: by Skadet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Geordi: We can do it! Picard: Good! Geordi: It'll take 15 years, and an engineering team of 100, but we can do it. Picard: ....

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  10. Done by gov_coder · · Score: 4, Funny

    I put the windows xp emulator here.

    Now show me the money!

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  11. Poor Westley by mblase · · Score: 4, Funny

    SpecOps Labs are offering $10,000 to a team who can build a Windows XP emulator in 15 days.

    And what are our assets?

    Your brains, his beowulf cluster, and my codebase.

    That's it? Impossible. If I had a month to plan, maybe I could come up with something, but this?

    1. Re:Poor Westley by DarthStrydre · · Score: 3, Funny

      Where did we put that Wine the penguin had?

      With the penguin, I think.

      Why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place? What I wouldn't give for a licensing agreement.

      There we cannot help you.

      Would this do?

      Where did you get that?

      At Silly Stallman's. It fit so nice, he said I could use it.

  12. I win! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, yeah- I know it looks like I just installed Windows XP on a cheap PC. That's the beauty of it. It's *perfect* emulation. You simply cannot tell it's an emulator. Even the install disk looks *exactly* like a Windows install disc. Gimme money!

  13. Re:Microsoft maybe? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny
    They're doing a good job at the moment, the project's called Vista, it's as insecure, buggy and impractical..

    I strongly doubt it'll be finished in 15 days.
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  14. Oh! Another reason by doublem · · Score: 2, Funny

    I forgot the big one for those single geeks out there.

    To watch pirated porn that's in WMV format.

    That's a lot easier if you just run Windows Media Player under Linux.

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  15. Deadlines... by tongue · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, that's ONE way to hit your deadlines before you meet a VC rep...

  16. Re:Don't feed Spec Op Labs by Da_Biz · · Score: 2, Funny

    to point fingers and laugh

    Indeed. I found humor in the fact that SpecOps Labs' acronym is S.O.L.?

  17. Re:10K, Thats all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    2. System is stable.

    I thought this was supposed to be an XP emulator.

  18. Re:Full text by amcnabb · · Score: 3, Funny

    2. System is stable.

    Wait. Do you want this to emulate Windows XP, or do you want it to be stable? :)

  19. Re:10K, Thats all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I you're new to the industry and think you can do this, you are full of yourself.