You're right, the use of the word security is the key here. Read through the article again, but replace the first instance of "security" with "playback controls", the second with "their grip on the consumer" and the third with "artifical global market partitioning and profit margin increasing".
That said, the original Playstation went through three or four hardware revisions, plus the PSone, and each time some little hack or add-on fell over. So what? Just create a new one. Hardware otaku the world over always know exactly what revision of what hardware they need for their favourite hack to function. Look at the Celeron overclocking scene.
...but it was smacked down so hard by Fox's lawyers that they've basically rewritten history and you can barely find any trace of its existance on the web. I know an Atari 2600 hack of Oink with Futurama characters is a violation of copyright, but I don't have to like the way Fox behaved. I don't know that I'll bother with an official game after that.
You know, there's heaps of existing equipment quite capable of generating a signal that current TVs can display. What's more, there's heaps of existing content for such equipment. VHS videos, current DVDs, video game consoles and much more. Much as I enjoy new stuff, I'm sure there's plenty of enjoyable old content out there I've never seen. Heck, there are things in my own collection I've never watched and/or played.
I have scrambled analogue cable that uses digital equipment at the other end of the line (Foxtel, Australia). I get all the artifacts that you describe, plus the bonus of lines going the wrong colour or getting out of line when very white or saturated colours are displayed on a very black background. Not only do I barely watch it anymore, but buggered if I'm going to buy any new equipment on a simple promise that it will get better.
If you really think there's no added value in trading card versions of classic games then the abandonware movement is not the problem. People who just want stuff without paying for it are the problem. People who work on abandonware projects with the original spirit actually value the old stuff and don't want to see it lost. As a classic games collector, I don't care if I've managed to score the ROM for some of these titles, or even if I've got the originals somewhere (possible, since I have many hundreds of original carts and CDs) I'd still be interested in this new card-based classic gaming system. Just like I've bought one of every re-released Nintendo Game And Watch "Miniclassic" that I've found.
but unfortunatly it will be silently accepted like everything else
More likely it will be quietly ignored and die like many other things that didn't offer a package that, on the whole, people actually wanted.
Ignoring this whole piracy charade, the theory explaining a drop in CD sales that I subscribe to is that DVDs are killing CD sales. Many of my friends used to buy CDs by the box load. Now they're buying DVDs at about the same rate and I can't honestly remember the last time one of them showed off a new CD.
I got an Atari printer in a bundle of secondhand stuff that included an Atari 800XL. Not only does the printer still work, but you simply add raw ink to a roller that rests on the printing head (It's got little letters, not a dot matrix). They really don't make them like this anymore.
I've got a SIO2PC cable, I should see if I can set it up as my PC's printer...
I'll skip the "painting with one brush" comment and jump straight to: If you are in favour of, on balance, reducing the human race's negative impact on the environment, what should you call yourself?
I would tend to still think that I'm an environmentalist, although my current hobbies and work requirements do have me disposing of a lot more plastic than I'd like.
Breakthrough energy production will come via peer-reviewed publications and repeatable experiments. It will involve limited proof-of-concept engines under controlled conditions.
It will not come via some independent inventor showing off a car to a bunch of journalists. Even if it is a really nice car.
I've got an old Personal Iris case with a working power supply, but I'm not sure how to rewire it for a standard PC motherboard. Does anyone know of a guide somewhere? I was just going to get a normal PC case and leave this alone, but this thread has come at a good time...
When you move to a new job, you rarely have any legacy projects to support in addition to the one you're assigned to.
Ha! Not only do you have to try and repair other people's dodgy code you typically have to learn to do it with new tools and sometimes in a new language.
Just keep working at the problems in your current job. If you're good, maintenance on prior jobs will slowly decrease.
To the person that modded me off-topic -- did you actually read the page? It specifically mentions that the guy got the D.net client running on the port. In fact, that's almost the only thing he mentions.
I wonder what the D.net key rate is like. I know someone that already has SETI@home running on five PCs in his home, he'd probably be interested in running S@h or D.net on a DC or 12 too.
They should have MAME setup with Kaillera on the LAN if they really want to bring the old and new together. Nothing like classic Gauntlet with each player on their own PC...
The previous place I worked at had a rule that said you weren't allowed to connect to the Internet from inside the building except through authorised channels. I don't think the directors realised that this technically meant they couldn't use their WAP phones' data services, but that problem went away by itself anyway.
Nice try, but the Newton uses a dictionary as part of the recognition. I once wrote "How many Newtons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" and it came up with "One many suitors does it take to view in Trinidad."
Streambox VCR can save any realaudio stream to a file. Streambox Ripper can convert any realaudio file into an MP3. Unfortunately Streambox VCR was sued into oblivion by Real. (At least as far as they know.)
Okay - Cuttle Cart. Play any 2600 ROM on real hardware by encoding it as audio and playing it into the cart. A complete collection of Atari 2600 ROMs is six or seven 99-track CDs. That includes a large number of unreleased prototypes, modern releases and hacks.
"If you can read this you've done better than I could have hoped."
I mean, seriously, what are the chances of something like this being readable in even 50 years?
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That said, the original Playstation went through three or four hardware revisions, plus the PSone, and each time some little hack or add-on fell over. So what? Just create a new one. Hardware otaku the world over always know exactly what revision of what hardware they need for their favourite hack to function. Look at the Celeron overclocking scene.
...but it was smacked down so hard by Fox's lawyers that they've basically rewritten history and you can barely find any trace of its existance on the web. I know an Atari 2600 hack of Oink with Futurama characters is a violation of copyright, but I don't have to like the way Fox behaved. I don't know that I'll bother with an official game after that.
Remember when!? The TV in our kitchen still works like this. Only we have a "U" rather than channel 3.
I have scrambled analogue cable that uses digital equipment at the other end of the line (Foxtel, Australia). I get all the artifacts that you describe, plus the bonus of lines going the wrong colour or getting out of line when very white or saturated colours are displayed on a very black background. Not only do I barely watch it anymore, but buggered if I'm going to buy any new equipment on a simple promise that it will get better.
If you really think there's no added value in trading card versions of classic games then the abandonware movement is not the problem. People who just want stuff without paying for it are the problem. People who work on abandonware projects with the original spirit actually value the old stuff and don't want to see it lost. As a classic games collector, I don't care if I've managed to score the ROM for some of these titles, or even if I've got the originals somewhere (possible, since I have many hundreds of original carts and CDs) I'd still be interested in this new card-based classic gaming system. Just like I've bought one of every re-released Nintendo Game And Watch "Miniclassic" that I've found.
Ignoring this whole piracy charade, the theory explaining a drop in CD sales that I subscribe to is that DVDs are killing CD sales. Many of my friends used to buy CDs by the box load. Now they're buying DVDs at about the same rate and I can't honestly remember the last time one of them showed off a new CD.
I've got a SIO2PC cable, I should see if I can set it up as my PC's printer...
I would tend to still think that I'm an environmentalist, although my current hobbies and work requirements do have me disposing of a lot more plastic than I'd like.
It will not come via some independent inventor showing off a car to a bunch of journalists. Even if it is a really nice car.
I've got an old Personal Iris case with a working power supply, but I'm not sure how to rewire it for a standard PC motherboard. Does anyone know of a guide somewhere? I was just going to get a normal PC case and leave this alone, but this thread has come at a good time...
Just keep working at the problems in your current job. If you're good, maintenance on prior jobs will slowly decrease.
To the person that modded me off-topic -- did you actually read the page? It specifically mentions that the guy got the D.net client running on the port. In fact, that's almost the only thing he mentions.
I wonder what the D.net key rate is like. I know someone that already has SETI@home running on five PCs in his home, he'd probably be interested in running S@h or D.net on a DC or 12 too.
They should have MAME setup with Kaillera on the LAN if they really want to bring the old and new together. Nothing like classic Gauntlet with each player on their own PC...
The previous place I worked at had a rule that said you weren't allowed to connect to the Internet from inside the building except through authorised channels. I don't think the directors realised that this technically meant they couldn't use their WAP phones' data services, but that problem went away by itself anyway.
Nice try, but the Newton uses a dictionary as part of the recognition. I once wrote "How many Newtons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" and it came up with "One many suitors does it take to view in Trinidad."
Streambox VCR can save any realaudio stream to a file. Streambox Ripper can convert any realaudio file into an MP3. Unfortunately Streambox VCR was sued into oblivion by Real. (At least as far as they know.)
Okay - Cuttle Cart. Play any 2600 ROM on real hardware by encoding it as audio and playing it into the cart. A complete collection of Atari 2600 ROMs is six or seven 99-track CDs. That includes a large number of unreleased prototypes, modern releases and hacks.
I'm sure Nestle are stoked to have gotten this ad onto the Slashdot front page.
Personally though I've never seen the need to use the built-in flash RAM on my TRGpro, since I have a (*gloat*) 128MB CF card.
My mother was a Nyet fan, I'm more a Blockout person. I had some links a few hours back, but I couldn't post then.
"If you can read this you've done better than I could have hoped." I mean, seriously, what are the chances of something like this being readable in even 50 years?