On emulation.net, there's a SNES emulator for the Mac called Silhouette, which according to the readme file (use Stuffit Expander to decode the.hqx if you don't own a Mac) was an emulator project designed from within Nintendo which got scrapped after several downsizings.
There's no source code available for Silhouette; the binary was just dropped in John Stiles (owner of emulation.net)'s lap last fall. The readme refers to a possible 1.1 version at some point, but as yet it hasn't come.
Silhouette was the only emulator around that could handle transparencies at the time.
A Manhattan, Kansas band, Ultimate Fakebook wrote a tongue-in-cheek song last year about this very subject. You can hear part or all of the song, "Far, Far Away" via links here. (realaudio or mp3).
Choice lyrics include "Isn't it good to / to not always get all that you want," "'cause everybody wants it so much better than anyone could ever let it be," and "George Lucas is the force / will it save us from heartbreak / in 1998?"
J.
Not only that, it's almost all Nintendo.
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Maybe that's why it's called The Mushroom. Mushroom, Super Mario Bros...
Yeah, NGR is cool, but if you want REALLY evil game-related commentary, try Old Man Murray.
They're the official game site of the U.S. Postal Service! Really!
Eric acknowledged that among his objectives were to take a vacation, work on quiet, behind-the-scenes talks, and not be so overexposed.
I'm glad for that.
I'm concerned that he suggested people aren't asking him questions directly as opposed to sending articles to Linux Today or/. like Perens and Stallman did.
Maybe that's the bed he's made for himself, that even people as supposedly clued-in as RMS don't know how to talk to ESR without "going public."
I don't know. All I know is that when ESR is doing his primary job (which is ambassador, not "prankster,") he does it well, and he does it well in ways that most of us could not appreciate, nor credit fully. I'm glad he doesn't feel like he should retire before he finds someone else who can do what he does.
Because at this stage in the game, what he does is essential.
He's the head of the Eggheadz. He's the one with the Bozo the Clown hair and "an answer or complaint for everything."
J.
The problem with dumping Katz over Wood
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...is that Wood probably couldn't "get it up" as often as Katz does. Part of Katz's success (if you can call it that) is/provocation/. Slashdotters reply to him more often than any other author, and he writes more original copy for/. than any other author yet Taco-approved.
I'd support/. "getting Wood" if 1) he could crank out the copy and 2) felt like cranking it out for/. at least twice as often as comp.sys.mac.system.
The choice would be Malda's, though. Could he handle too much reason and/or coherency in/. commentary? Wood might just as easily put up a wall of impenetrable logic and blow everyone's minds instead of raising their ire like Katz does.
I'd be more likely to read/. more often if Wood posted here, though.
J.
My favorite line from the article
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" In any other field of endeavor, there would be no contest; the fluffy bunny of utopian daydreams would meet the oncoming diesel locomotive of commerce, and it'd be all over but for the rabbit stew. The problem is, you can't ignore Stallman."
Sure, the Motorola 68k architecture of the Mac actually/is/ 20 years old, because the development officially began in 1979, according to Jef Raskin, courtesy of, you guessed it, MacKiDo.
But the PowerPC architecture was a great leap forward when the 601 came out in 1992, such that a 68k emulator had to be coded into the system software. That was "G1".:o>
The same warranty agreement applies to any Mac, not just iMacs: if someone other than an Apple-authorized dealer opens the case during warranty, the warranty is void.
But if you're messing around with the innards of your computer, I doubt you really worry about warranty.:o>
It's worth pointing out that the new iMacs won't have a mezzanine slot, but they come standard with the ATI RAGE 128 cards, which everyone is ooing and ahhing over, like it's gonna be even better than Voodoo2. Plus you can supposedly get into 'em easier than the original blue-only line of iMacs.
Ruffin's recent t-file, "Chinese Checkers" (cDc #361) includes him getting hold of one of the Hong Kong Blondes.
(quoted from the file, all emphases are mine)
Human Rights in China are naturally a Chinese problem requiring a Chinese solution. Xioa Qiang is part of that solution and so are Lin Hai and Wang Youcai. Hacktivists can support their agendas by getting informed, giving some time, and staying involved until the problem is solved. It won't happen overnight. But hackers have a lot of stamina for harsh bug fixes when they believe in the program. That's what I thought when I contacted Lemon Li.
***
The last time I got in touch with the Hong Kong Blondes Chief Technical Officer it was mostly to bid her au revoir and God-speed. And to ask her to drop 5000 copies of Back Orifice -- the cDc's network administration tool for Windows -- into China. I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to use them for but the opportunity for deployment was too delicious to pass up. According to Microsoft, Back Orifice is no threat to the marks, rather, the users of their operating system. But in our experience they are just whistling into the abyss. Having this application dropped onto your hard drive is like giving your PIN number, your house keys and your lover's nude photos to a stranger, only worse. My sincere wish is that the Win9x OS install base in China includes legions of Communist Party officials, corrupt bureaucrats and nasty high school vice-principals. I'm sure that we'll find out soon enough.
Part of the fun is not really knowing what will happen. When Sir Dystic first programmed Back Orifice and released it at Defcon last summer no one could have predicted its impact. To date approximately three hundred thousand copies of the program have been downloaded from the CULT OF THE DEAD COW Web site. And given the state of trading and copying that goes on the Net, we're probably looking at a number closer to one million copies in total. Zowie. Right after the release there was nothing so pathetic as the phalanx of PR flacks stumbling out of Redmond pooh-poohing Back Orifice. It was one stinking performance. At first Back Orifice was no threat. Then there was something to it but Windows users had nothing to fear. Then it was something else. They never had a clue how to contain the damage. Bill Gates probably didn't have enough money to get good help after blowing his whole PR budget on reinventing himself as Ozzie Nelson on his way to an anti-trust suit. Still, it was amusing.
To be honest, Back Orifice was not developed to take on Beijing. It was developed to show that Microsoft security sucked. But we couldn't be happier that the Reds and Redmond have cosied up so nicely. And the more that Back Orifice is deployed, the more use it will be. There are a number of plug-ins for the program in development that will expand upon its already robust abilities. And there's the Windows NT version waiting in the wings. But why tell all now? It would be more fun to wait for the Chinese make an official complaint to Washington. Or to watch them close down Microsoft Research, Beijing for being a party to their demise. Not that we're complaining, but it does seem astounding that China would put so much faith in Microsoft to help them develop their computing infrastructure. You'd think a little more attention to security issues would... hmm, I'd better keep it to myself.
Not to slag on OXblood, he's my favorite writer in cDc. But there's a touch of inconsistency between the cDc's condemnation of cyberwarfare and this file.
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There's no source code available for Silhouette; the binary was just dropped in John Stiles (owner of emulation.net)'s lap last fall. The readme refers to a possible 1.1 version at some point, but as yet it hasn't come.
Silhouette was the only emulator around that could handle transparencies at the time.
J.
You really really need a copy editor, Taco.
The word is "Menace".
J.
Choice lyrics include
"Isn't it good to / to not always get all that you want,"
"'cause everybody wants it so much better than anyone could ever let it be,"
and "George Lucas is the force / will it save us from heartbreak / in 1998?"
J.
Yeah, NGR is cool, but if you want REALLY evil game-related commentary, try Old Man Murray.
They're the official game site of the U.S. Postal Service! Really!
J.
I just like how their acronym will be said out loud.
:oD
Can you say "Louie Gooey"?
I knew that you could.
J.
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*OHHHHhhhhh...*
*THAT* BG!!
Wow...
J.
Read the long quoted e-mail.
:o>
It's goofy, so I'm skeptical that this isn't all just a big honkin' joke.
J.
Now send that to him in e-mail.
esr@tuxedo.org
Or did you miss the point in his latest essay where he ASKED YOU TO DO JUST THAT?
Or is that YOUR egoism talking, that you want a reply from the guy in a public forum?
J.
Eric acknowledged that among his objectives were to take a vacation, work on quiet, behind-the-scenes talks, and not be so overexposed.
/. like Perens and Stallman did.
I'm glad for that.
I'm concerned that he suggested people aren't asking him questions directly as opposed to sending articles to Linux Today or
Maybe that's the bed he's made for himself, that even people as supposedly clued-in as RMS don't know how to talk to ESR without "going public."
I don't know. All I know is that when ESR is doing his primary job (which is ambassador, not "prankster,") he does it well, and he does it well in ways that most of us could not appreciate, nor credit fully. I'm glad he doesn't feel like he should retire before he finds someone else who can do what he does.
Because at this stage in the game, what he does is essential.
J.
J.
Could Lloyd Wood do it as often? Well, he's a fairly prolific t.b. Guy. He makes nifty Kaleidoscope themes for Mac users, and is a whiz-bang Mac advocate (including the recent suggestion that Apple follow Netscape's example and release the source to Cyberdog.)
I'd support /. "getting Wood" if 1) he could crank out the copy and 2) felt like cranking it out for /. at least twice as often as comp.sys.mac.system.
The choice would be Malda's, though. Could he handle too much reason and/or coherency in /. commentary? Wood might just as easily put up a wall of impenetrable logic and blow everyone's minds instead of raising their ire like Katz does.
I'd be more likely to read /. more often if Wood posted here, though.
J.
" In any other field of endeavor, there would be no contest; the fluffy bunny of utopian daydreams would meet the oncoming diesel locomotive of commerce, and it'd be all over but for the rabbit stew. The problem is, you can't ignore Stallman."
http://www.internetter.com/titan/mess/
Thought maybe it was going to support PSX and N64 emulation along with Colecovision and Apple II. :o>
J.
J.
But the PowerPC architecture was a great leap forward when the 601 came out in 1992, such that a 68k emulator had to be coded into the system software. That was "G1". :o>
J.
The same warranty agreement applies to any Mac, not just iMacs: if someone other than an Apple-authorized dealer opens the case during warranty, the warranty is void.
:o>
But if you're messing around with the innards of your computer, I doubt you really worry about warranty.
It's worth pointing out that the new iMacs won't have a mezzanine slot, but they come standard with the ATI RAGE 128 cards, which everyone is ooing and ahhing over, like it's gonna be even better than Voodoo2. Plus you can supposedly get into 'em easier than the original blue-only line of iMacs.
J.
J.
Thanks for clearing it up. I thought you deserved a chance to meet the issue head-on.
Destruction of networks = bad. Use of networks to gain information to further a just cause = good.
J.
(quoted from the file, all emphases are mine)
Human Rights in China are naturally a Chinese problem requiring a Chinese solution. Xioa Qiang is part of that solution and so are Lin Hai and Wang Youcai. Hacktivists can support their agendas by getting informed, giving some time, and staying involved until the problem is solved. It won't happen overnight. But hackers have a lot of stamina for harsh bug fixes when they believe in the program. That's what I thought when I contacted Lemon Li.
***
The last time I got in touch with the Hong Kong Blondes Chief Technical Officer it was mostly to bid her au revoir and God-speed. And to ask her to drop 5000 copies of Back Orifice -- the cDc's network administration tool for Windows -- into China. I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to use them for but the opportunity for deployment was too delicious to pass up. According to Microsoft, Back Orifice is no threat to the marks, rather, the users of their operating system. But in our experience they are just whistling into the abyss. Having this application dropped onto your hard drive is like giving your PIN number, your house keys and your lover's nude photos to a stranger, only worse. My sincere wish is that the Win9x OS install base in China includes legions of Communist Party officials, corrupt bureaucrats and nasty high school vice-principals. I'm sure that we'll find out soon enough.
Part of the fun is not really knowing what will happen. When Sir Dystic first programmed Back Orifice and released it at Defcon last summer no one could have predicted its impact. To date approximately three hundred thousand copies of the program have been downloaded from the CULT OF THE DEAD COW Web site. And given the state of trading and copying that goes on the Net, we're probably looking at a number closer to one million copies in total. Zowie. Right after the release there was nothing so pathetic as the phalanx of PR flacks stumbling out of Redmond pooh-poohing Back Orifice. It was one stinking performance. At first Back Orifice was no threat. Then there was something to it but Windows users had nothing to fear. Then it was something else. They never had a clue how to contain the damage. Bill Gates probably didn't have enough money to get good help after blowing his whole PR budget on reinventing himself as Ozzie Nelson on his way to an anti-trust suit. Still, it was amusing.
To be honest, Back Orifice was not developed to take on Beijing. It was developed to show that Microsoft security sucked. But we couldn't be happier that the Reds and Redmond have cosied up so nicely. And the more that Back Orifice is deployed, the more use it will be. There are a number of plug-ins for the program in development that will expand upon its already robust abilities. And there's the Windows NT version waiting in the wings. But why tell all now? It would be more fun to wait for the Chinese make an official complaint to Washington. Or to watch them close down Microsoft Research, Beijing for being a party to their demise. Not that we're complaining, but it does seem astounding that China would put so much faith in Microsoft to help them develop their computing infrastructure. You'd think a little more attention to security issues would ... hmm, I'd better keep it to myself.
Not to slag on OXblood, he's my favorite writer in cDc. But there's a touch of inconsistency between the cDc's condemnation of cyberwarfare and this file.
J.