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From: "Bill Romanowski" <prairie@iquest.net>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk
Subject: beyond the boot
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 19:34:24 -0500
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After yaroze boots, brings up CIP and some target exe is launched,
can't a "homemade" CD-R be put in and accessed for (all) resources?

Possibly, the PC/MAC could load a tiny shell, prompt for a disk,
yaroze disk is exchanged for a CD-R, real game is booted from the disk,
and we now have access
 to big game world fun.

I know that the boot disk has to be there when the exe exits,
but are there any other circumstances where the boot disk
 is called upon
 beyond when an exe directly reads the CD?

Actually, we could same alot of trouble if the CIP would just
be that "shell" anyway. Now we could run yaroze programs
in a stand alone mode. Even better than that...

Seeing that the yaroze is copy protected by the access key
in conjunction with (I assume) the internal yaroze ROM,
Sony could release a CIP runtime/boot that we could freely put on our
CD-Rs as a boot image. Yaroze is still as protected as always,
but now our learning experience can also involve large data
.

Does this line of thinking violate our agreement?
Is this another grey area? 
scea.yaroze.greyarea?

billr