[A83] Re: DS Thread Extended onto this list


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[A83] Re: DS Thread Extended onto this list







> At 04:29 PM 12/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >Pardon my ignorance in these things, but wouldn't making a modded OS be
as
> >simple as disassembling the .8xu, changing some stuff around and fixing
> >whatever checksum it might have?
>
> Yeah.  The checksum.  THAT's the hard part.  Do you have a few months of
> computer time to crunch the encryption key?  You can mod the 8xu all you
> want, and even load it into VTI (See, to emulate the restriction, you'd
> have to know how to check for it, thus how to break it . . . ) but when it
> comes time to do the flash of the calc, it no work.
>
>

I take it then that this checksum isn't some simple CRC or something?  Has
anyone on this list ever looked into this area?

- - Joe
joe@joepnet.com




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