Re: Re[2]: [gbadev] Bill in US Senate may make gbadev illegal unless you act now
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Thankfully a lot of us live in the free world, so this wont affect us all.
Reminds me of when US Customs banned the import on the bung gb-xchanger.
Still, you could buy them quite easily over here in the uk.
As it has been suggested, fugbar (cant remeber link sorry) already has to
retrieve the nintendo logo data from a valid rom file before it can fix
compiled programs.
One thing you can do which saves an extra step in compiling, is to actually
hard code the header/CRC stuff into your crt0.S
Hello Adrian, Wednesday, July 31, 2002, 10:09:04 PM, you wrote: AB> But there are a few things that would come even if this was true AB> 1. It wouldnt stop...
... Hash: SHA1 Thankfully a lot of us live in the free world, so this wont affect us all. Reminds me of when US Customs banned the import on the bung...
... Then how does a newbie to GBA development dump Mario Kart to get a valid rom file? You can't dump it using MBV2 because you need to put logo data in the...
... before ... I wrote fugbar with the reasoning that everyone can quite easily find the logo data from the multitude of public domain demo/game roms available...
they would more than likely try to make that illegal because most everything downloaded has some bandwidth attached to the us internet lines. it's really dumb...
there's no way around it really. either someone is gonna have to use a header repairing utility to validate the rom or go against this bill and risk a civil...
... Thats completly different. Your not allowed to distribute them. Your still allowed to create your own roms / cds with the authentication hacked into it. ...
I, for one, hope this bill passes!!! Actually, I love and support all of these corrupt laws that give way to totalitarianism. The american public, in all its...
I went ahead and did email my state reps...2 of which were co-sponsors of this bill (as I mentioned before). If (and probably when) this bill passes we would...
... From what I understand, this bill had strong support originally. Recently he modified the bill to a broader level (probably hoping to sneak it by, by last...
I love the fact that the gameboy is so widely owned. This makes my 'work' easy to show to most anyone. However, I think the time is comming when we need to...
Daniel
webmaster@...
Aug 3, 2002 9:31 pm
Hi, I so not agree with you. From what I've seen I'd hate to do GP32 games. It's just not suitable for it. It's an obscure piece of hardware from some unknown...
... Look at Doom running on a 16.8 MHz ARM processor. Then imagine the same thing on a 75 MHz ARM processor. ... PC games such as Jazz Jackrabbit and the PC...
Hi, ... I personally don't care much for fps games, only on regular consoles. (GoldenEye, Halo etc) ... Ok, then why don't the games, created by the hardware...
Hello Collin, CvG> Ok, then why don't the games, created by the hardware manufacterers if I'm CvG> not mistaken, have horrible frame-rates? It seems to...
I like the Sharp Zaurus idea, open development. 206Mhz Arm, so good speed. Even has a keyboard :-) I'm just waiting for the 400Mhz, due end this year. Jippie...
Hello Collin, ... CvG> Because it will play better perhaps? The higher the frame-rate the higher CvG> the precision of control etc. yesyesyes. but like i said...
The "horrible frame rate" is simply in some cases just serious frame skip ( I use that in my TetrisGP game -- http://www.buffalo.edu/~jh27/intelecto ). In...
I know it's getting quite a bit off topic, but for those that are interested http://www.insertcredit.com/ has a lot of GP32 reviews, etc. There are some dev'r...
Hello Daniel, Saturday, August 03, 2002, 6:12:47 PM, you wrote: D> I love the fact that the gameboy is so widely owned. This makes my 'work' D> easy to show...
The idea is good, but a developer, earing about a new device will not use it unless the company backing it up can proove themselves. N ans already a long...
ePAc
epac@...
Aug 4, 2002 8:03 pm
My main gripe about the GP32 is it's lack of specialized graphics hardware. From what I understand it works essentially like an old PC with VESA or a GBA in...
i agree that the gp32 should be supported over here. only problem is is that it is totally based in the orient and not supported anywhere else. i don't think...
... Microsoft already has. http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/default.asp And so has Palm Computing. http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/23/2052219.shtml ...
... From: "yerricde" <d_yerrick@...> To: <gbadev@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 1:58 PM Subject: [gbadev] Alternatives to GBA: Pocket...
Mike Wynn
mike.wynn@...
Aug 5, 2002 3:20 pm
... did you guys check out dasher ? IMHO not really usable but I'm thinking about a sort of similar thing on the gba for inputting more complicated data. ...
CK
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Aug 5, 2002 3:43 pm
actually i'd havta say that the gp32 copied from palmtops/handhelds as they were out long before the gp32 and had those abilities. what i was referring to was...
Short news about the Project: http://tharo.snowdesign.de/arminsider/ There is the Forum to send comments about the Project or read what it is. In some words: ...
... I agree that a better display and faster processor would help, but better sound? What do you want? Are you asking for a hardware sample mixer, hardware...
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