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No, there was quite a lot of copy protection - lots of the stuff you see nowadays was pioneered on these old machines. Things like non-standard data formats, dongles you had to plug in else the program wouldn't work, passwords that you had to search for in the manual, even a goofy lens system...

Oh no, the C64 lived a full life - it was on sale from 1984 until the early 1990s when it was superseded by the Amiga (which may have led a full life too, if Commodore hadn't fallen prey to several generations of incompetent management). It was (and still may be) the best-selling single...

"Blit" is short for "BLock Image Transfer". It basically means copying a rectange from one part of the screen to another, or from memory to screen, screen to memory or memory to memory. Hardware blitters are very very useful because 1) they are usually faster than the CPU and 2) they are also...

Just got mine too :D

You're missing something :) On the GP32, programs assume that thay have full control of the hardware, so when they allocate memory, they grab from anywhere - there's nothing preventing the screengrabber's code and data from being overwritten with game data. The solution to that problem is well...

@DJWillis: I believe you're handing things in the best way possible. You have my (and I believe a lot of other people's) support in this.

Still doesn't remove the fact that this guy's work is just a tiny (a lot smaller than 1) percent of what we call Linux, and it's only there because someone else (Alan Cox) did all the hard work of integrating it into the kernel. As someone who tried to get a patch into GCC, I can tell you that...

So suing them is the only thing he can come up with? WTF happened to dialog?

Well, that's quite something. This gentleman adds a couple hundred lines of code to the Linux kernel (networking code, which isn't even used by the gp2x so it probably isn't even compiled into the kernels that the gp2x comes with - and that's a *very* small part of the networking stack in any...

OK, you just totally confused me. Bob Geldof the rock star?

Oh gawd. I just hope they don't decide DaveC is a "reliable source" too :P

@Cyclops: A lawyer who's aware of all the issues and really wants to resolve the situation (eg someone from the FSF), yes. Some yahoo that only wants to collect loads of money and screw everyone else, no.

Hehe, now I know you're not a native English speaker. "Ambulance chaser" is not a term that commands respect. An ambulance chaser is what we call a lawyer that goes around looking for anyone who got injured in an accident so that they can sue someone (anyone) about it. They have no interest...

@Flexinoodle: The reason why I'm not worried is that I'm fairly certain that GPH do have plans to release the source code, as I said they've already proved themselves to be something other than greedy corporates, so I am quite confident it's only a matter of time. If they get sued by someone...

I give up :)

Actually, there's not. There is a hostility towards heavy-handed enforcement of the GPL by well-meaning individuals like yourself. It only takes one ambulance-chaser wanting to make a name for himself (he won't stop at GPH releasing the source, he'll seek punitive damages, class-action, etc)...

No kidding. People think the GPL is pretty cool, but if you want to do things properly it's a lot of work to comply. For students or anyone without a release schedule, it's easy: just release everything only when you're done. However, if you're on a release schedule and time is getting tight...

I've got a C++ 16.16 fixed-point math library from back in the day that I've recently cleaned up, and I'm planning on releasing as soon as I've tested it on the gp2x (should be arriving this weekend :D). The license will probably be zlib. As a teaser, here's part of the header file: //...

Well, makes sense considering everything that's been going on over the past month or so. I know that if I hadn't already pre-ordered, I would have probably decided to wait it out until the "official" release (I'm not going to cancel, since I suspect that if we all did, there would be *no*...

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