Re: Bill in US Senate may make gbadev illegal unless you act now
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 ignorance, will hopefully support all of these
corrupted bills. I hope we pass so many bills that we become a
corporate-run police state just like in Orwell's 1984. America has
been trying to kill itself for years, resisting it is only slowing
the inevitable process. I wish it would hurry up and die so we can
start again anew. I want to make things so bad that revolution will
be immediately imminent!!! I wanna play Dr. Kavorkian to america and
end its suffering! I can't wait for the civil war where all the
intelligent americans citizens will kill all the ignorant complacent
ones!!! It's evolution!
Do you think I'm overreacting?
[mod note: From now on keep it within the boundaries of GBAdev please.]
--- In gbadev@y..., "Dan Cotter" <dancotter@o...> wrote:
> > (For example,
> >imagine a Sony Walkman digital music player that only
> >lets you play files ripped from Sony CDs.)
>
> Thats completly different.
> Your not allowed to distribute them. Your still allowed to create
your own
> roms / cds with the authentication hacked into it.
>
> Any idiot can use a Flash linker to read the boot header and patch
> downloaded games.
>
> > 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 .mb binary before the GBA will run it. For a
> > while, you couldn't dump it using Visoly linkers because UPS was
> > blocking LikSang's shipments. (LikSang now ships video game
> > accessories to the USA via EMS Speedpost, which hasn't given me
> > any problems... yet. And no, I'm not being paid to say this.)
>
> You can always just read it off the cartridge.
>
> I had to wait 2 weeks and pay about 50% of my lik-sang visoly order
as
> Australia Tax after they had to declair weither or not it was
a 'legal
> device'.
> I doupt they even figured out what it was, because 2 weeks is the
limit
> before they have to make a decision on personal packages.
> I am required by law to get the documents of the import for 5
years...
> Interestingly they also opened up an e3 DVD i got free with my order
> and had a look see. I payed for express overnight, it got to
australia
> overnight, but i didnt get it until 3 weeks later.
... 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...
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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...
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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
x@...
Aug 5, 2002 3:43 pm
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... 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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... The GBA can sound better than the Super NES if you use a good mixer library. ... Tetrisphere good. Dr. Mario 64 bad. ... I try for that, but some of the...
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Francis Lillie
francis_lillie@...
Aug 7, 2002 8:21 am
we're currently doing a conversion that's extremely heavy on sampled speech and sound.. using Logik State's sound driver (plug!) we've managed to cram about 7...
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