Re: A86: Rom Central - Database interactivity with rom calls


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Re: A86: Rom Central - Database interactivity with rom calls




No they don't.  They can type it in...

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>The person needs a graph link to get the asm to the calc....
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>> would then output a string. The user would then be required to enter the
>> new string into the CGI to download the ROM. Strings generated by the CGI
>> script should expire after a certain short period of time, no more than a
>> few minutes.
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>> For this to work, you'd need to implement a state machine in CGI. And the
>> 86 asm program that does the encryption should be written in a highly
>> obfuscated manner, so that even a skilled hacker wouldn't be able to
>> understand it from reading a disassembled dump. It should also liberally
>> use references to the ROM, so that even someone who didn't understand it
>> couldn't write a simulator that could run it without a ROM dump, even if
>> they had a text file that described the ROM calls.
>>
>> Even if you used this method, someone without a TI-86 could still get the
>> ROM dump by communicating in real-time with a person who either has a
>> TI-86, and/or already has a working ROM dump for the emulator. But that
>> could be considered to be just as easy as having the other person send you
>> an actual ROM dump.
>>
>> As for the legality of this, I'd guess that TI would consider it to be just
>> as illegal as straight-out distribution. But feel free to ask them. :-)
>>
>> ---
>> David Ellsworth
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