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From: "Graeme Evans" <evans@fourny.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Sony probably doesn't like this
Date: 25 Sep 1997 18:58:09 GMT
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> http://szczecin.top.pl/~duddie
> 
> What, I guess that's in Poland?
> 
> Seems like its functionality is severely crippled and it doesn't look to
> be coded very well - but the fact that it's coded at all is quite
> impressive.

It didnt work too well for me either. But it does make a nice focus for
emulator people since he's giving away the source. And the MIPS soft CPU
looks very like a first effort, so maybe it wont always run like a dog on
my trusty DX2. And you just know that *someone* in the world with a bad
attitude is sitting with a big pile of hardware specs.

> 
> However, I believe the person responsible is incorrect when they say:
> 
>      EMULATION IS NOT A CRIME, EMULATION SUPPORTS COMPANIES!
>                      TRY EMU - BUY CONSOLE!
> 

I think emulation is a really nice pure computer thing to do, even if it
doesnt play any games. The people who ban emulators are the people who
close libraries and probably peeled all the labels off their Rubiks Cube.
Mmm 'try emu - bury console' maybe, but there's nowt wrong with that :).
Naw anyway the playstation must be nearly dead, now that Sony need 'niche
markets' (ahem..)

> Yeah, right. "Murder is not a crime! It supports gun companies!" I guess
> Sony will have hestitation in crushing those sites which have BIOS
> binaries on them (like they did with the Oasis sites).

I have a hunch that with yaroze the BIOS is only a siocons command away I
think, ah? But can anyone tell me (without reverse engineering) what that
command is?

> I'm sure all Sony would have to do in the next PSX is include some sort
> of built-in dongle (oxymoron) like you get with expensive apps.
> 

This is quite an interesting idea. But you know my boss put a dongle on one
of our apps and one of the customers hacked it off in an afternoon. Anyway
you shouldnt be saying stuff like this :)

Anyway all this stuff is irrelevant. I'm here to code the next Dungeon a Go
with my overpriced but cool piece of embedded hardware. slaver.

Grim