This family has a long history of aviation firsts, and I assume the pilot here is a grandson of this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Piccard/
And yes, that's the same sirname which inspired Gene Roddenberry to create Jean-Luc.
I'm responsible for 2 very, very old games (Jumpman and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein for the PC) to be open sourced and released, but it's reverse engineered source code and not original. I contacted the original authors (although in the case of BCW, Silas Warner had passed away, but his widow gave me permission). These games had passed through so many hands by the time I got around to them that the rights had simply been lost to bigger companies who didn't even know they owned them. Not only were the rights gone, but the original source code was always long lost.
Hopefully someday the original source may materialize in some box of floppy disks in the back of a closet (see jordan mechner's recent discovery of Prince of Persia) but the odds of these things are so incredibly rare.
About all I learned was that this is tough to do, very time consuming, and it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.
I work with a staggering number of engineers who are very religious and it has always boggled my mind. How can anyone with an analytical mind possibly accept things like Noah's ark?
how about jacking up the price of gas to buy insurance as you go? this would have the added side effect of making people think twice about driving 4 blocks to run an errand and buying giant gas guzzler vehicles. yeah, yeah, some issues about lawn mowers and such, but we could work out a system for that I'd think.
I'd always thought it would be a neat idea to roll auto insurance in at the gas pump. No more uninsured drivers, plus it would be an incentive to reduce driving. obviously LOTS of holes in the plan, but it would eliminate the big brother aspect of this proposal.
Some fellow geeks and I are working on a *new* 8 bit ISA IDE controller for vintage machines just like yours.
Details are here:
http://wiki.vintage-computer.com/index.php?title=XTIDE_project/
It will be available toward the end of the summer, hopefully, and will allow you to install HDD's up to 137G!:)
I actually liked the experiment of this. For my house in particular, there was no energy savings because I'd already switched most of my lights out for CFLs. (most of the savings was supposed to come from lighting) Perhaps there were no savings because everyone else has switched to CFLs too? tee hee.
Being in my mid 30's, I sort of feel that robots are going to be my generation's version of the VCR blinking 12:00. We'll use them, but not really understand them or care enough to make them do all the tricks they're designed for. This depresses me, as I told myself I would NEVER be out of touch with technology, but I really have no interest in them.
Quoth the article: "AACS relies on the well-established AES (with 128-bit keys) to safeguard the disc data. Just like DVD players, HD DVD and Blu-ray drives will come with a set of Device Keys handed out to the manufacturers by AACS LA. Unlike the CSS encryption used in DVDs, though, AACS has a built-in method for revoking sets of keys that are cracked and made public."
So what happens when someone cracks ALL the keys and posts every one of them publicly?
FWIW, I've now changed my FAQ about my legal rights to distribute this game, from "YES!" to "HOPEFULLY!";) and provided a bit of an explanation as to why I believe it's not a problem.
http://www.oldskool.org/pc/BCW/faq.html
It is possible that Silas' widow owns the copyright, if Silas published his own game. In this case, she probably *does* have the ability to grant you distribution rights, and you're fine.
Which she has. I probably should have quoted the entire section from my FAQ:
Q) Do you have the rights to distribute this game?
A) Yes. Silas Warner's wife has granted permission to release the source code and game executables as a small memorial of his work.
id Software owns the name "Wolfenstein", but not this particular piece of work. id's legal department has been notified of this project, and so far, have not stepped in to shut it down. Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.
Hopefully anyone who sees the effort involved in returning this piece of software to the modern world will see that it was done as a labor of love, not as a way to line pocketbooks.
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DMCA wise, I guess it's kinda grey. It allows for reverse engineering to bypass protection (which I did), but not neccesarily for releasing the whole friggen source code!;) I did spend some serious time searching for some kind of ruling for/against this type of work, but I couldn't find anything to support either case, as this is a rather unusual situation.
As if it's not obvious, IANAL. I'll gladly seek your councel if the hammer comes down on me for doing this, but I think I can sleep soundly.
-jeff!
Yes it's legal. I knew this question would be raised, so I added a thingy in the faq:
In October of 2003, congress passed 4 clauses to the DMCA which allow reverse engineering for this type of application. Specifically "3. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access....The register has concluded that to the extent that libraries and archives wish to make preservation copies of published software and videogames that were distributed in formats that are (either because the physical medium on which they were distributed is no longer in use or because the use of an obsolete operating system is required), such activity is a noninfringing use covered by section 108(c) of the Copyright Act."
Not at all. An album is not a random collection of songs, as your analogy would suggest, but is instead constructed with specific songs in a specific song order, so that a person can listen to it all the way through to get a specific desired aesthetic effect. Creating an album as a collection of songs is most definitely a deliberate and artistic process. This is not to say that the only way to enjoy songs is to listen to the entire album, but that there is (or should be) an added effect from doing so.
Sometimes. An independant artist might be able to afford a more or less "concept album" such as your describing where the tracks mean something next to each other, but when my band (also indie) attempted to release our 2nd album, we hired a promoter guy and he rearranged all of our tracks to attempt to get the biggest bang in the first 2 to 3 tracks. The logic behind this was the radio playlist directors needed to hear the most radio friendly tracks up front instead of digging through a full album to find them. It's sad, but logical and I can't imagine it's any different in the bigger music industry circles.
-jeff!
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This family has a long history of aviation firsts, and I assume the pilot here is a grandson of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Piccard/ And yes, that's the same sirname which inspired Gene Roddenberry to create Jean-Luc.
don't move to marcy holmes neighborhood- 12mb tops here.
I'm responsible for 2 very, very old games (Jumpman and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein for the PC) to be open sourced and released, but it's reverse engineered source code and not original. I contacted the original authors (although in the case of BCW, Silas Warner had passed away, but his widow gave me permission). These games had passed through so many hands by the time I got around to them that the rights had simply been lost to bigger companies who didn't even know they owned them. Not only were the rights gone, but the original source code was always long lost.
Hopefully someday the original source may materialize in some box of floppy disks in the back of a closet (see jordan mechner's recent discovery of Prince of Persia) but the odds of these things are so incredibly rare.
About all I learned was that this is tough to do, very time consuming, and it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.
I work with a staggering number of engineers who are very religious and it has always boggled my mind. How can anyone with an analytical mind possibly accept things like Noah's ark?
how about jacking up the price of gas to buy insurance as you go? this would have the added side effect of making people think twice about driving 4 blocks to run an errand and buying giant gas guzzler vehicles. yeah, yeah, some issues about lawn mowers and such, but we could work out a system for that I'd think.
article says: We used a Microchip 24AA01-I/P 128byte I2C EEPROM (IC2), rated for 1million write cycles.
Um, SSDs don't use anything like this part as their storage.
I'd always thought it would be a neat idea to roll auto insurance in at the gas pump. No more uninsured drivers, plus it would be an incentive to reduce driving. obviously LOTS of holes in the plan, but it would eliminate the big brother aspect of this proposal.
Some fellow geeks and I are working on a *new* 8 bit ISA IDE controller for vintage machines just like yours. :)
Details are here: http://wiki.vintage-computer.com/index.php?title=XTIDE_project/
It will be available toward the end of the summer, hopefully, and will allow you to install HDD's up to 137G!
I actually liked the experiment of this. For my house in particular, there was no energy savings because I'd already switched most of my lights out for CFLs. (most of the savings was supposed to come from lighting) Perhaps there were no savings because everyone else has switched to CFLs too? tee hee.
Being in my mid 30's, I sort of feel that robots are going to be my generation's version of the VCR blinking 12:00. We'll use them, but not really understand them or care enough to make them do all the tricks they're designed for. This depresses me, as I told myself I would NEVER be out of touch with technology, but I really have no interest in them.
Quoth the article:
"AACS relies on the well-established AES (with 128-bit keys) to safeguard the disc data. Just like DVD players, HD DVD and Blu-ray drives will come with a set of Device Keys handed out to the manufacturers by AACS LA. Unlike the CSS encryption used in DVDs, though, AACS has a built-in method for revoking sets of keys that are cracked and made public."
So what happens when someone cracks ALL the keys and posts every one of them publicly?
A fish eating vegetarian is properly (in my world) considered to be a vegaquarian.
The city probably would have just raised their property taxes so much they'd have to move out. Either way, the city wins.
I'm one of the crazy guys on that site:
-jeff!
sheesh, I'm replying to my own comments...
;) and provided a bit of an explanation as to why I believe it's not a problem.
FWIW, I've now changed my FAQ about my legal rights to distribute this game, from "YES!" to "HOPEFULLY!"
http://www.oldskool.org/pc/BCW/faq.html
-jeff!
It is possible that Silas' widow owns the copyright, if Silas published his own game. In this case, she probably *does* have the ability to grant you distribution rights, and you're fine.
;) I did spend some serious time searching for some kind of ruling for/against this type of work, but I couldn't find anything to support either case, as this is a rather unusual situation.
Which she has. I probably should have quoted the entire section from my FAQ:
Q) Do you have the rights to distribute this game?
A) Yes. Silas Warner's wife has granted permission to release the source code and game executables as a small memorial of his work.
id Software owns the name "Wolfenstein", but not this particular piece of work. id's legal department has been notified of this project, and so far, have not stepped in to shut it down. Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.
Hopefully anyone who sees the effort involved in returning this piece of software to the modern world will see that it was done as a labor of love, not as a way to line pocketbooks.
--
DMCA wise, I guess it's kinda grey. It allows for reverse engineering to bypass protection (which I did), but not neccesarily for releasing the whole friggen source code!
As if it's not obvious, IANAL. I'll gladly seek your councel if the hammer comes down on me for doing this, but I think I can sleep soundly.
-jeff!
Yes it's legal. I knew this question would be raised, so I added a thingy in the faq:
...The register has concluded that to the extent that libraries and archives wish to make preservation copies of published software and videogames that were distributed in formats that are (either because the physical medium on which they were distributed is no longer in use or because the use of an obsolete operating system is required), such activity is a noninfringing use covered by section 108(c) of the Copyright Act."
In October of 2003, congress passed 4 clauses to the DMCA which allow reverse engineering for this type of application.
Specifically "3. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.
-jeff!
I'm not really annonymous (the source code at least has my first and last name in it.)
I just want the attention to go to the game and the nostalgia, not to me. The last thing I want is to take credit away from the original author.
Thanks for the comments and for trying it out. I hope it works for you and brings back some old times.
-jeff!
Spamcop should see if a judge will let them just wait until Scott's other legal battles are over:
"Optinrealbig.com is currently the target of a lawsuit filed by Microsoft and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in December of 2003"
If there's anything left of him after this truckload hits him, it'll be that much easier to get this stupid lawsuit wiped under the table.
Not at all. An album is not a random collection of songs, as your analogy would suggest, but is instead constructed with specific songs in a specific song order, so that a person can listen to it all the way through to get a specific desired aesthetic effect. Creating an album as a collection of songs is most definitely a deliberate and artistic process. This is not to say that the only way to enjoy songs is to listen to the entire album, but that there is (or should be) an added effect from doing so.
Sometimes. An independant artist might be able to afford a more or less "concept album" such as your describing where the tracks mean something next to each other, but when my band (also indie) attempted to release our 2nd album, we hired a promoter guy and he rearranged all of our tracks to attempt to get the biggest bang in the first 2 to 3 tracks. The logic behind this was the radio playlist directors needed to hear the most radio friendly tracks up front instead of digging through a full album to find them. It's sad, but logical and I can't imagine it's any different in the bigger music industry circles. -jeff!