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From: "Chris Furlough" <furlough@bellsouth.net>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk
Subject: Re: beyond the boot
Date: 12 May 1997 15:51:37 GMT
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Fred Flintstone <Fred@Bedrock.Net> wrote in article
<01bc5ee6$a12dbeb0$be8fb5cc@furlough>...
> > 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?
> 
> I played with this all weekend..  The Yaroze never stops spinning the CD
> from what I've been able to see.  So that in itself is a problem.  You
have
> to "Hot swap" the disks.
> 
> > 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 wrote a routine that loaded the "system.cnf" file from the CD in the
> unit, and "printf'ed" it to the PC.  After a disk swap, it would read the
> file, and dump it just fine.  Soooo, in theory, you could read your data
> files from the CD-R.  
>  
> > I know that the boot disk has to be there when the exe exits,
> 
> This isn't true.  I exited and re-downloaded with a different CD in the
> drive!
> 
> > 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
> 
> Can't be done..  There is also the protection on the "Yaroze Boot Disc"
> that is required for the PS to load anything.  This, I'M SURE Sony won't
> give up!
> 
> 
> Now what *I* want from Sony is a call to stop the CD from spinning so you
> can swap them safely!
> 
>