My point is the games may work.. may look good but the playability is typically not optimised for the different audience and aditional hardware benefits. To use your example prince of persia had a camera system that couldnt rotate around a wall. This was frustrating to many pc players who found it a strange and an unnnecesary challenge (there was free look available in the game so it wasnt there "hiding" things you shouldnt be able to see). It didnt destroy the game but it detracted from it.
In effect what Im saying is if you make it too easy to do this we will start seeing people taking the quick buck route and throwing out unoptimised games reducing quality.
If Deus Ex 2 showed us anything its that the ability to recycle large chunks of code for two different platforms results in substandard fare. Is this the begining of homogenised PC / Console products which are not optimised for either audience or hardware?
Sorry I meant telecine. The impression I was given was that to do it properly (avoiding bleeching etc) required time/effort/money.
Seems I was mistaken there is now a (retail) DVDrip available. Id been mistaken with a version that was claiming to be this by several people but had only been sourced from a telecine.
This version is a Telesync and not a dvdrip (or a second generation dvdrip 1st gen being the telesync). Effectively someone took the reels from a cinema and did a professional transfer job on it. Ive been told such a transfer would have cost a substantial amount to do and was probably funded by a large pirating operation. Its quite possible that the pushing forward of the dvd release though was in reaction to this, Cutting into their profits by releasing the legit version earlier.
online petitions are infamously poor at gaining any form of respect/notice. If you really care write a letter (remember those) to Fox (not Lucas). They are the ones who if they see a real interest in the product will put pressure / wads of money on/in front of Lucas to release the original trilogy.
Two reasons this sounds like rubbish:
The catchups are generated on a per session basis for the person trying to sign up for the email address . Surely if they then try and get a third party to do the decoding the session will be expired.
Also The article points out that Optical Character recognition is more than adequate to break this so I can not see a situation that spammers would do this elaborate probably unworkable method over OCR.
No facts and a friend of a friend source makes this sound like total BS.
Either I've gone crazy or I rememeber "cracking" early versions of password protected zipfiles by opening them in notepad. Does this sound familiar / likely?
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Sledgehammer.
My point is the games may work.. may look good but the playability is typically not optimised for the different audience and aditional hardware benefits. To use your example prince of persia had a camera system that couldnt rotate around a wall. This was frustrating to many pc players who found it a strange and an unnnecesary challenge (there was free look available in the game so it wasnt there "hiding" things you shouldnt be able to see). It didnt destroy the game but it detracted from it. In effect what Im saying is if you make it too easy to do this we will start seeing people taking the quick buck route and throwing out unoptimised games reducing quality.
If Deus Ex 2 showed us anything its that the ability to recycle large chunks of code for two different platforms results in substandard fare. Is this the begining of homogenised PC / Console products which are not optimised for either audience or hardware?
Sorry I meant telecine. The impression I was given was that to do it properly (avoiding bleeching etc) required time/effort/money. Seems I was mistaken there is now a (retail) DVDrip available. Id been mistaken with a version that was claiming to be this by several people but had only been sourced from a telecine.
This version is a Telesync and not a dvdrip (or a second generation dvdrip 1st gen being the telesync). Effectively someone took the reels from a cinema and did a professional transfer job on it. Ive been told such a transfer would have cost a substantial amount to do and was probably funded by a large pirating operation. Its quite possible that the pushing forward of the dvd release though was in reaction to this, Cutting into their profits by releasing the legit version earlier.
"As you can see since issuing the ping -f command www.sco.com is totally inaccesible."
works best if your clients are 13yr old script kiddies.
online petitions are infamously poor at gaining any form of respect/notice. If you really care write a letter (remember those) to Fox (not Lucas). They are the ones who if they see a real interest in the product will put pressure / wads of money on /in front of Lucas to release the original trilogy.
Two reasons this sounds like rubbish: The catchups are generated on a per session basis for the person trying to sign up for the email address . Surely if they then try and get a third party to do the decoding the session will be expired. Also The article points out that Optical Character recognition is more than adequate to break this so I can not see a situation that spammers would do this elaborate probably unworkable method over OCR. No facts and a friend of a friend source makes this sound like total BS.
Either I've gone crazy or I rememeber "cracking" early versions of password protected zipfiles by opening them in notepad. Does this sound familiar / likely?