I seem to remember that the Dreamcast used a propritary format that was writen big endian to little endian. needless to say it was hacked, i have a cd binder of proof if anyone has any doubts about that.
Anyway if you could get your computer to do a raw read of a disk, then you could flip it using software to the "normal" way that data is written. and if you can do it one way, what says that you can't do it the other. uses software to flip an image and raw write it to a cd. should wor the same way no?
anyway i'm sure whoever invented the copy protection for GC looked at the DCs failures and improved so i'm probally just talking from my ass.
You missed another significant way in witch this is an invalid survey. That is the fact that it is a voluntary survey. As opposed to a survey where the participants are selected at random, the results will skew wildly based on the bias of the readership of the web page in question. Had the same question been asked here, the hatred of Microsoft so prevalent on Slashdot would have skewed the results far more. Likewise if the question were posted on the Microsoft forums the results again would be skewed, this time in favor of Microsoft.
In short this survey should be taken as little more then a vague representation of dissatisfaction of readers of internetweek.com who feel that they have the time / need to respond to loaded questions about Microsoft products. Nothing more.
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I seem to remember that the Dreamcast used a propritary format that was writen big endian to little endian. needless to say it was hacked, i have a cd binder of proof if anyone has any doubts about that.
Anyway if you could get your computer to do a raw read of a disk, then you could flip it using software to the "normal" way that data is written. and if you can do it one way, what says that you can't do it the other. uses software to flip an image and raw write it to a cd. should wor the same way no?
anyway i'm sure whoever invented the copy protection for GC looked at the DCs failures and improved so i'm probally just talking from my ass.
You missed another significant way in witch this is an invalid survey. That is the fact that it is a voluntary survey. As opposed to a survey where the participants are selected at random, the results will skew wildly based on the bias of the readership of the web page in question. Had the same question been asked here, the hatred of Microsoft so prevalent on Slashdot would have skewed the results far more. Likewise if the question were posted on the Microsoft forums the results again would be skewed, this time in favor of Microsoft.
In short this survey should be taken as little more then a vague representation of dissatisfaction of readers of internetweek.com who feel that they have the time / need to respond to loaded questions about Microsoft products. Nothing more.