Re: LF: cool stuff to turn your calc into
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Re: LF: cool stuff to turn your calc into
Hackers will always find away around any way you use to protect
software, I've yet to see software which can't be cracked somehow or
another, to allow full use...
Aaron
> Not to go totally off list topic, but why don't the die-hard 'wireheads'
> and hackers (in the proper sense of the word) among us create a totally new
> hand-held game system from scratch, which would be supported by dedicated
> programmers that write programs for the fun of it? Keep the price of the
> system under $75, and the software, around $10-$15, would be distributed
> over the Internet on a cripple-ware basis (download for free, but program
> deletes itself after 15 days if not registered). Anyone?
>
> The only problem with this would be that you would have to invent a way to
> keep people from distributing registered copies of the programs... How
> about having the owner of the system's name or SSI kept somewhere in the
> ROM/RAM, and when the programs are registered, they are keyed to work only
> on that particular unit?
>
> Nathaniel Gibson
> ngibson@postoffice.ptd.net
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