caramba Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Let me just start off by saying i'm not in any way trying to address the legal or ethical considerations in regards to the Cassini project; everybody has already argued that into the ground. This post is to make one point. Many people seem to want to characterize Snail as a "script kiddie" and call Cassini a "blantant hack." I would just like to say that disassembling and reverse engineering code is no easy feat. Many people want to refute "40% claim." Regardless of whether you believe the 40% figure or not, i doubt many people here know how insanely difficult it is to rewrite 1% of 14.9MB.EXE's disassembled code; 1% would be about 1500 lines of code, for which you have no comments, no names for variables, and generally no idea of what's going on. I would like to challenge anyone to pick your favorite 15MB executable, disassemble it, and tell me how your feel after you reach for 50th FAR JUMP. I have written video games in pure ASM, and consider myself to be a moderately talented ASM programmer, and i know first hand that making sense of a disassembly of that size is a gargantuan undertaking. Not to mention all the sync issues one encounters when providing interrupt handling for a different architecture. Legal and ethical issues aside, i would challenge everybody that has had an opinion of Snail's coding to try to accomplish a similar task; you may find yourself humbled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Now why did you have to go ahead and bump this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Holy Hell. What the evil bump. I'm locking this for the sake of mankind. Sue me if you don't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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