it wouldn't take them more than one afternoon with an EE and a microcode programmer to reverse-engineer it and produce their own.
Most embeded microcontrollers have a security 'fuse'. Once the fuse is set the program cannot be easily read out. In fact some chips erase the program as an anti-tampering mechanism if you attempt to read the program.
This would make it difficult to read out the program. However it doesn't sound like it would be too much work to re-write the code from scratch.
Has anyone tried asking the companies to release the old games?
There are several sites out there that have done this for old Amiga games. They have gotten permission to distribute many old games including most of the Sierra adventure games. Some sites have 100s of disk images, all of which are legal.
Before you go downloading realize that unless you own a real Amiga the only legal way to get Amiga ROMs (Needed by the emulators) is to buy Amiga Forever from Cloanto.
I can see why they want to get into these lucrative markets, but essentially they're trying to get money for old rope. If M$ really want to corner the embedded OS market I'm sure they could, provided they make a new product for it - but they're not going to conquer the PDA market (or, for that matter, the games console market) with the latest version of DOS.
But DOS is a somewhat popular OS for x86 based embedded systems. A lot of the ads in Circuit Cellar are for 386 and 486 based single board computer running DOS usually with a Flash ROM instead of a hard drive.
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ESS and Sound Blaster Pro are practically blood relatives
Have you tried the SOundBlaster Pro driver?
I haven't tried BeOS yet, but have a ESS1869 in my laptop and it works fine with the Linux SoundBlaster drivers and by chosing SoundBlaster Pro in DOS games.
>No machine before the iMac had any design similar to it, so it needs to protect something that it did create
The only origional design to the iMac is the rounded translucent design. All-in-the-screen designs have existed for a long time (The origional Macs, Compaq made some PCs, etc)
Maybe they should sue HP and TI. The HP49 is rounded and has a translucent cover. And look the these covers that TI sells for some of their calculators.
... give AmigaOS a 'POSIX-layer' and a X-capable API, and you got a good startingpoint for something more innovative than all those *nix-clones.
There is a start of that with ixemul.library. Most of the GNU toolset has been ported and makes a nice developement system (If a little slow and memory hungry on a 25MHz machine with 8MB RAM)
There is even a start of an X server, but I could never get it running (It needs way more then 8MB RAM).
My first Linux install was Debian hamm on an Amiga 3000 (Debian supports m68k). I found it remarkably easy, it just took a long time (overnight with a 25Mhz 68030, 8MB RAM and a 4x CDROM!).
I now mainly use Macmillan Deluxe (Mandrake) on my laptop. I can't stand RPM, I would actually rather download and compile source than use RPM.
At least dpkg tells you what other packages you need, instead of what files (What package is libxyz.o in?). apt-get will even offer to download them for you! dselect is pretty hard to get used to (so I didn't use it). I really like kpackage and gnorpm though.
I used this a lot on my A3000 with 8MB, especially when trying to build larger programs with gcc.
It's not very fast and many programs don't like it, but it is user space virtual memory. (Although wasn't most of AmigaOS, including device drivers, user space).
Try searching for 'oscilloscope' or something obscure, and presto! the adverts wants you to but an oscilloscope.
Targetted advertising seems to getting worse. Today while looking through the Dilbert Zone from my University account I was continuosly presented with a recruting ad that mentioned the university by name.
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Most embeded microcontrollers have a security 'fuse'. Once the fuse is set the program cannot be easily read out. In fact some chips erase the program as an anti-tampering mechanism if you attempt to read the program.
This would make it difficult to read out the program. However it doesn't sound like it would be too much work to re-write the code from scratch.
Most laptops have a PS/2 port that works at the same time as the keyboard.
Stuff like Palm would need an adapter, but I do remember seeing a PS/2 keyboard adaptor for the Palm.
Like 3 feet of good cable is going to make a difference compared to the 1000ft of crap back to the telco.
There are several sites out there that have done this for old Amiga games. They have gotten permission to distribute many old games including most of the Sierra adventure games. Some sites have 100s of disk images, all of which are legal.
Before you go downloading realize that unless you own a real Amiga the only legal way to get Amiga ROMs (Needed by the emulators) is to buy Amiga Forever from Cloanto.
But DOS is a somewhat popular OS for x86 based embedded systems. A lot of the ads in Circuit Cellar are for 386 and 486 based single board computer running DOS usually with a Flash ROM instead of a hard drive.
Have you tried the SOundBlaster Pro driver?
I haven't tried BeOS yet, but have a ESS1869 in my laptop and it works fine with the Linux SoundBlaster drivers and by chosing SoundBlaster Pro in DOS games.
The only origional design to the iMac is the rounded translucent design. All-in-the-screen designs have existed for a long time (The origional Macs, Compaq made some PCs, etc)
Maybe they should sue HP and TI. The HP49 is rounded and has a translucent cover. And look the these covers that TI sells for some of their calculators.
There is a start of that with ixemul.library. Most of the GNU toolset has been ported and makes a nice developement system (If a little slow and memory hungry on a 25MHz machine with 8MB RAM)
There is even a start of an X server, but I could never get it running (It needs way more then 8MB RAM).
Check ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets/ if you have an Amiga and want to check it out.
My favorite trick on the Amiga is still VMM. User space virtual memory!
And YAM is still one of the best mail clients I have ever used. http://www.yam.ch
I now mainly use Macmillan Deluxe (Mandrake) on my laptop. I can't stand RPM, I would actually rather download and compile source than use RPM.
At least dpkg tells you what other packages you need, instead of what files (What package is libxyz.o in?). apt-get will even offer to download them for you! dselect is pretty hard to get used to (so I didn't use it). I really like kpackage and gnorpm though.
Try this.
I used this a lot on my A3000 with 8MB, especially when trying to build larger programs with gcc.
It's not very fast and many programs don't like it, but it is user space virtual memory. (Although wasn't most of AmigaOS, including device drivers, user space).
Targetted advertising seems to getting worse. Today while looking through the Dilbert Zone from my University account I was continuosly presented with a recruting ad that mentioned the university by name.