Well, assuming that you're fairly well-versed on the subject, I'm sure you're aware of the use of HPF's and why they are only a band-aid measure for getting temporary free PPV. I hadn't heard anything specific about QAM encryption, but like I said, I would about guarantee that somewhere in the world is documentation detailing how to decrypt any QAM signal and retrieve the raw video.
I believe if you have a right to access the analog version, you also have a right to access the clean digital version. You don't lose any rights just because it's 0s and 1s, instead of a variable voltage.
So now, it's apparently a crime to be a purist, and want direct access to high quality media? Sure, maybe the analog version might be good enough for you, but if you're a purist, then it's not.
You would be correct. XPSP2 supports NX (or as SP2 refers to it, Data Execution Prevention [DEP]). However, I don't know which CPUs support it, if any, currently.
I don't even listen to radio anyway. Of course, I'll still be arguing against the broadcast flags anytime it comes up, but I haven't listened to the radio in, hell, I can't remember how long.
Besides, I doubt digital terrestrial radio will take off, same way that digital terrestrial television has not taken off - the few people watching terrestrial DTV are those with HD sets.
If an industry doesn't see fit to give me my legal rights, then I won't use their product, and I will do my damndest to make sure other people don't use their product either.
I resent being told that I can't do something because I *might* use it for illegal purposes. Even if what I'm actually *planning* to do is fully legal.
And, just like virtually every other protection system out there, it WILL be broken. The only one I know of that HASN'T been broken publically is digital cable - and I feel it's been broken, but just not revealed to the public yet.
For example, Steve Gibson codes in ASM. But the stuff he codes isn't tied to hardware.
For games, and C64-style demos, ASM on the PC is useless. There's too much hardware, and too many different CPU speeds, to utilize such tricks as counting cycles, hitting the hardware at just the right point on the screen, etc.
I'd like to see some more homebrew shit done on the Genesis. It's got good hardware, a decently fast CPU, and a very nice FM part that gives 6 FM channels, or 5 FM channels and a DAC.
It WAS the same Mario game as the NES - called Mario Bros. There were several versions of Mario Bros., notably for the C64 and even the Apple II. And also an arcade version (of which the second, German-only NES release even bested).
Of course, if you were thinking of SUPER Mario Bros., then you're right.
The emulation is legal, that part has already been proven in court.
And since the user, and not Datel, must supply the ROMs, I think they'll be fine. They've probably got more to worry about with that whole Divx thing you mentioned.
Only if he runs both simultaneously. Same reason you're not technically supposed to use a Mac ROM with an emulator at the same time you're using the actual Mac that the ROM was dumped from.
If you absolutely want it to be 100% lossless, and you're capturing from a source with full chroma resolution, and nothing in the signal loop downsamples the chroma, then set huffyuv to force RGB - otherwise you might end up downsampling the chroma. Definitely force RGB if your source is something you produced in AFX, etc.
Proof enough? I know some skins under Winamp 5 allow you to have it fade out a bit when the windows doesn't have focus (or when you're not hovering over it, if you like always on top). As you can see, that translucent window crosses over three different windows and the desktop, and acts properly.
And bah, I realise I wrote 'granted' in that IM window to myself - ignore that, I hadn't read closely enough and I don't feel like re-grabbing it. Still, shouldn't this be enough to deny them a patent for this?
One nitpick - you don't have the right to control how the work is USED, but rather how it's REDISTRIBUTED. If you create a piece of art, and I think it's shit, so much so that I print it out, place it in my toilet bowl, and drop a Cleveland steamer on it, then I have done nothing wrong or illegal. If I want to make a million personal copies and store them in the closet, I'm fully within my rights as long as I don't redistribute any of the copies without permission. Also, with sufficiently rare, vintage works of art, preservation trumps copyright from a moral standpoint - if we'd had personal recording technology and the Internet back when the Du Mont network was around, then all those old shows would not be lost to time due to being dumped in the river, because someone would be sharing them on P2P.
I would call it 240p, since the scanlines are always in the same position. But yeah, the early consoles mostly output 240p. Some consoles do have an interlaced mode, however (the Genesis has 2, one that's more akin to a linedoubler, and one that actually gives you 480i). I'm pretty sure the PSX could also output 480i (the BIOS startup is interlaced, for starters).
And the NTSC Genesis only has 224 addressable lines for graphics, the rest are given to the border. The PAL Megadrive can do 240 lines, tho.
This only applies to terrestrial TV. Cable channels don't have any real restrictions, hence Comedy Central being able to run the South Park movie uncensored, and also most of Chappelle's Show. And I'm fine with that, as long as it stays that way. As soon as they try to regulate all of TV, then I'll boycott.
Except Nintendo can't create rules more stringent than copyright law itself merely by printing ink on a piece of paper in the pattern that just happens to form the words that say 'copying is illegal'. Nor can anyone else.
If it was a contract it would be different. But that would require a signed agreement for each game.
I don't really play new games all that much, and I have enough legal games on my laptop to be able to not really care whether or not another new game ever comes out again. So I really could care less one way or the other. Certainly, new games are much harder to hack, and especially find hidden or unused/previously-used data. Did you know that both the NES ans SNES versions of SMB3 have remnants of a debug menu? The SNES one acts nearly identical to the NES one, including not allowing you to select Battle Mode after jumping to the routine, since there was no separate Battle Mode selection on NES, which makes me think that the SNES version was ported from the NES version. This would make sense, because since the 65816 is binary compatible with the 6502 when concerned with legal opcodes, most of the logic would work with, in most cases, simple RAM address modifications, I would think.
Hacking is where it's REALLY at. Merely playing the games, to me, is only gravy.
My point is, the DAC has nothing to do with the PSG. The DAC is on the FM part, the Yamaha YM2612. I know that the DAC timing is soft, and must be handled by the code.
Depends on the game. For example, LttP used most of the same graphics, perhaps slightly modified for gamma. SMW is the same way. SMA4:SMB3 mostly uses SMAS graphics from way back in the SNES days (with a couple of enhancements like the graphics that popup when you get a 1up).
I agree with you on the recoding. For example, I'd be surprised if the SMB3 debug menu showed up at all in the GBA port, like it's remains did in the NES and even SNES version (showing that at least for SMB3, SMAS was based on the original source code and not a complete rewrite).
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Well, assuming that you're fairly well-versed on the subject, I'm sure you're aware of the use of HPF's and why they are only a band-aid measure for getting temporary free PPV. I hadn't heard anything specific about QAM encryption, but like I said, I would about guarantee that somewhere in the world is documentation detailing how to decrypt any QAM signal and retrieve the raw video.
I believe if you have a right to access the analog version, you also have a right to access the clean digital version. You don't lose any rights just because it's 0s and 1s, instead of a variable voltage.
So now, it's apparently a crime to be a purist, and want direct access to high quality media? Sure, maybe the analog version might be good enough for you, but if you're a purist, then it's not.
You would be correct. XPSP2 supports NX (or as SP2 refers to it, Data Execution Prevention [DEP]). However, I don't know which CPUs support it, if any, currently.
I don't even listen to radio anyway. Of course, I'll still be arguing against the broadcast flags anytime it comes up, but I haven't listened to the radio in, hell, I can't remember how long.
Besides, I doubt digital terrestrial radio will take off, same way that digital terrestrial television has not taken off - the few people watching terrestrial DTV are those with HD sets.
If an industry doesn't see fit to give me my legal rights, then I won't use their product, and I will do my damndest to make sure other people don't use their product either.
I resent being told that I can't do something because I *might* use it for illegal purposes. Even if what I'm actually *planning* to do is fully legal.
And, just like virtually every other protection system out there, it WILL be broken. The only one I know of that HASN'T been broken publically is digital cable - and I feel it's been broken, but just not revealed to the public yet.
Depends on what the software is.
For example, Steve Gibson codes in ASM. But the stuff he codes isn't tied to hardware.
For games, and C64-style demos, ASM on the PC is useless. There's too much hardware, and too many different CPU speeds, to utilize such tricks as counting cycles, hitting the hardware at just the right point on the screen, etc.
I'd like to see some more homebrew shit done on the Genesis. It's got good hardware, a decently fast CPU, and a very nice FM part that gives 6 FM channels, or 5 FM channels and a DAC.
It WAS the same Mario game as the NES - called Mario Bros. There were several versions of Mario Bros., notably for the C64 and even the Apple II. And also an arcade version (of which the second, German-only NES release even bested).
Of course, if you were thinking of SUPER Mario Bros., then you're right.
The emulation is legal, that part has already been proven in court.
And since the user, and not Datel, must supply the ROMs, I think they'll be fine. They've probably got more to worry about with that whole Divx thing you mentioned.
Only if he runs both simultaneously. Same reason you're not technically supposed to use a Mac ROM with an emulator at the same time you're using the actual Mac that the ROM was dumped from.
Apple knows emulation is legal.
ReadySoft taught them so, over AMax.
If you absolutely want it to be 100% lossless, and you're capturing from a source with full chroma resolution, and nothing in the signal loop downsamples the chroma, then set huffyuv to force RGB - otherwise you might end up downsampling the chroma. Definitely force RGB if your source is something you produced in AFX, etc.
...just like the FDS, you mean?
Oh yeah, that other thing that didn't get officially imported.
http://ssonicnet.com/localhmc/translucent.png
Proof enough? I know some skins under Winamp 5 allow you to have it fade out a bit when the windows doesn't have focus (or when you're not hovering over it, if you like always on top). As you can see, that translucent window crosses over three different windows and the desktop, and acts properly.
And bah, I realise I wrote 'granted' in that IM window to myself - ignore that, I hadn't read closely enough and I don't feel like re-grabbing it. Still, shouldn't this be enough to deny them a patent for this?
You just insulted every musician that reads
"founders of their faith"
There is only ONE founder of true Christianity.
And that would be God.
What is "THIEFT"?
One nitpick - you don't have the right to control how the work is USED, but rather how it's REDISTRIBUTED. If you create a piece of art, and I think it's shit, so much so that I print it out, place it in my toilet bowl, and drop a Cleveland steamer on it, then I have done nothing wrong or illegal. If I want to make a million personal copies and store them in the closet, I'm fully within my rights as long as I don't redistribute any of the copies without permission. Also, with sufficiently rare, vintage works of art, preservation trumps copyright from a moral standpoint - if we'd had personal recording technology and the Internet back when the Du Mont network was around, then all those old shows would not be lost to time due to being dumped in the river, because someone would be sharing them on P2P.
Sure looks like it to me.
Tired of the RIAA's bullshit?
Want over 20,000 songs in less than 150MB?
With no nasty MP3 artifacting?
Completely free?
And LEGAL?
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Some of the best music ever created is in the HVSC. Go get it today, and unshackle yourself from the RIAA's tyranny.
I would call it 240p, since the scanlines are always in the same position. But yeah, the early consoles mostly output 240p. Some consoles do have an interlaced mode, however (the Genesis has 2, one that's more akin to a linedoubler, and one that actually gives you 480i). I'm pretty sure the PSX could also output 480i (the BIOS startup is interlaced, for starters).
And the NTSC Genesis only has 224 addressable lines for graphics, the rest are given to the border. The PAL Megadrive can do 240 lines, tho.
This only applies to terrestrial TV. Cable channels don't have any real restrictions, hence Comedy Central being able to run the South Park movie uncensored, and also most of Chappelle's Show. And I'm fine with that, as long as it stays that way. As soon as they try to regulate all of TV, then I'll boycott.
Except Nintendo can't create rules more stringent than copyright law itself merely by printing ink on a piece of paper in the pattern that just happens to form the words that say 'copying is illegal'. Nor can anyone else.
If it was a contract it would be different. But that would require a signed agreement for each game.
I don't really play new games all that much, and I have enough legal games on my laptop to be able to not really care whether or not another new game ever comes out again. So I really could care less one way or the other. Certainly, new games are much harder to hack, and especially find hidden or unused/previously-used data. Did you know that both the NES ans SNES versions of SMB3 have remnants of a debug menu? The SNES one acts nearly identical to the NES one, including not allowing you to select Battle Mode after jumping to the routine, since there was no separate Battle Mode selection on NES, which makes me think that the SNES version was ported from the NES version. This would make sense, because since the 65816 is binary compatible with the 6502 when concerned with legal opcodes, most of the logic would work with, in most cases, simple RAM address modifications, I would think.
Hacking is where it's REALLY at. Merely playing the games, to me, is only gravy.
My point is, the DAC has nothing to do with the PSG. The DAC is on the FM part, the Yamaha YM2612. I know that the DAC timing is soft, and must be handled by the code.
Depends on the game. For example, LttP used most of the same graphics, perhaps slightly modified for gamma. SMW is the same way. SMA4:SMB3 mostly uses SMAS graphics from way back in the SNES days (with a couple of enhancements like the graphics that popup when you get a 1up).
I agree with you on the recoding. For example, I'd be surprised if the SMB3 debug menu showed up at all in the GBA port, like it's remains did in the NES and even SNES version (showing that at least for SMB3, SMAS was based on the original source code and not a complete rewrite).
Except for the second one, go tell that to Marat Fayzullin, who still sells VGBA/Windows.
Selling an emulator isn't a sin, remember AMax or Emplant on the Amiga?