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Randomno
2mo ago
It was changed to '46 today
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3mo ago
> It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game. Don't think this was the case, what helped was it being compiled without optimizations.
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3mo ago
> Wicked For Good Is this an antithesis to Don't Be Evil?
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4mo ago
The P in PNaCl is Portable. Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/
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4mo ago
> (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through) Crossbridge was its third and most recent name. Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out. https://github.com&#x
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4mo ago
This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.
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4mo ago
Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago
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4mo ago
Yes this isn't clean-room. Though none of these decompilation projects have been resolved in court yet. re3 (GTA3/Vice City decompilation) developers were sued by Take Two but they settled out of court.
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4mo ago
Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball
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7mo ago
All the SWFs are archived (which is often not the case on Wayback). Just when the program is requesting to load one, archive.org is returning an HTML-wrapped file instead which fails to load. It would be quite easy to add to Flashpoint.
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7mo ago
Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.
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9mo ago
> It's not legal Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.
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10mo ago
One of the difficulties I had searching for J2ME resources is that the mobile equivalent of the JVM is called KVM (K virtual machine), so most of the search results are about Linux's Kernel-based virtual machine instead.