I don't knooow Yogi, i think the park ranger's kid is able to read-He's regurgitating trivia he's probably consumed since he became literate, he's simply attached himself to the Presidential train. How about a 3 year-old-promise who by the time he was seven knew more about Vucanology (having devoured every printed page on the subject available via his parent's $$) than a university Junior? His second favorite book was an Oxford English Dictionary on CD ROM, so the kid learned some of the most difficult and obscure words in the lexicon as well as their meanings. There's probably 25 million Chinese children on the planet sharper than this kid, same age. Oh, and we're all trained regurgitates of the same clan my friend-

He's got moxie-Love the way he stands up in that school desk, be nice to see more folks' children utilize theirs similarly.....

I just recently discovered you can easily get old Nintendo ROMs to run with an emulator on your computer and what seems like every old NES game is freely available for download. I can't wait to receive the USB Nintendo controllers I just ordered so I can get into some classic, good games, not like all the crap they're shoveling nowadays.

I can't wait for my boys to be old enough to start enjoying them, especially Super Mario Bros. Just too bad Duck Hunt is no longer an option.

Didn't realize the CD Rom thing happened in 1989...thought that happened during the period when Nintendo was looking into the Super NES's successor, many years later.

http://snesbox.com/game/out-of-this-world/rom/8b8acdec1c2345477ddec5516413c2a1

>> ^oritteropo:

Interesting. My first c64 wasn't a rev 1 ROM, so it didn't have this bug (did any PAL c64's?).
A bit of googling suggests that if you has pressed play on your datasette, and then stopped it, you could have recovered! If only we'd had the internet in 1982!!!
http://www.c64trivia.com/TRIVIA3A.DAT.html
>> ^deathcow:
There was a bug in the C64 where if you typed and filled the very bottom line of the screen with text and then kept typing which overflowed to the next line, (which would make the screen text all flow up one line to make room) and THEN you backspaced back onto the last line, it would lock the machine up cold. I lost code to this bug enough times that it eventually became set in the brain at a very low level to avoid this.
To THIS day when working in the bottom line of a text editor, notepad, etc whatever, if I am typing and flowing into new lines in the bottom, my brain raises red flags if I am backspacing.



That was cool (bottom trivia question) !!!!

Interesting. My first c64 wasn't a rev 1 ROM, so it didn't have this bug (did any PAL c64's?).

A bit of googling suggests that if you has pressed play on your datasette, and then stopped it, you could have recovered! If only we'd had the internet in 1982!!!

http://www.c64trivia.com/TRIVIA3A.DAT.html
>> ^deathcow:

There was a bug in the C64 where if you typed and filled the very bottom line of the screen with text and then kept typing which overflowed to the next line, (which would make the screen text all flow up one line to make room) and THEN you backspaced back onto the last line, it would lock the machine up cold. I lost code to this bug enough times that it eventually became set in the brain at a very low level to avoid this.
To THIS day when working in the bottom line of a text editor, notepad, etc whatever, if I am typing and flowing into new lines in the bottom, my brain raises red flags if I am backspacing.

They were fun to mess with hardware also, my friend would have custom roms and switch them in and out by toggling address lines with switches he brought out to the case.

>> ^Babymech:

How the hell do you find this kind of thing in the first place?

The concept of going past the boundaries of a memory segment isn't new to most programmers, and since most older games pack things in so tightly in order to make the most of their limited space, it isn't too hard to pull off such tricks. The main challenge is figuring out which bits to switch (to turn on the "you win!" flag) and how to switch them (If the bit is represented as an unbreakable block to Mario, then he couldn't really change it). You'd also need to figure out how to glitch your way into that area of memory in the first place (in this case it was to create those blocks through another glitch, then use the standard Mario Jumping Through Walls glitch to get there, etc). So yeah, it's not a trivial task, but ROM hackers tend to spend a lot of time looking at that code anyway, so it's not surprising they'd come up with a method.

excellent! thanky!
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The original Gauntlet was an arcade machine. You can get the rom for MAME.
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I've been playing it off and on for a couple of weeks. Good mind numbing fun. Reminds me of Gauntlet. Wizard needs food!

Do you know if there is a version of Gauntlet for the Mac? I loved to play that on my cousin's old puter many moons ago.

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The original Gauntlet was an arcade machine. You can get the rom for MAME.
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I've been playing it off and on for a couple of weeks. Good mind numbing fun. Reminds me of Gauntlet. Wizard needs food!

Do you know if there is a version of Gauntlet for the Mac? I loved to play that on my cousin's old puter many moons ago.

Can you read French? Here are two articles, one from France, one from Switzerland, on the subject. The google translation is readable but horrid (I only checked for the French article). Note that both these newspapers are left (far-left for Libération) leaning newspapers, that deplore above all the fate of these kids.

http://www.laliberte.ch/info/les-mineurs-roms-d-sarment-la-police
http://www.liberation.fr/societe/0101526553-gens-du-voyage-un-reseau-d-enfants-eleves-pour-voler


>> ^Nebosuke:

>> ^hpqp:
It might not be the case here, but this video reminds me of the problem Europe faces with Travel People who send their underage kids - who have been trained and brainwashed into loyalty - to beg and/or steal because they know the judicial system can't touch them. Really smaddening. /rant

I would be interested in more information.

You libs should go easy on Rom-com, he's the libmedia's anointed fraudservative candidate. Rom may be an ineffectual bumblef**k but electing him or a fire hyrdant over the Kenyawaiian will buy time and breathing room, removing America from the edge of becoming a venezuelan-style dictatorship. Alex Jones is looking saner every day.

There's a reason gun sales soared last xmas. Stay tuned...

SHhhhhhh! We have annointed this milksop (admittedly with GREAT hair) to run against OUR President. ROM is the most fakeservative of all the candidates. NO CRITICIZING ROMNEY ALLOWED. --Libmedia

dupe of http://videosift.com/video/MythBusters-CD-ROM-Shattering ?

While I love my G2x (ROM'd of course. LG screwed the pooch software wise on this phone), I would love the Galaxy Nexus more.

Software wise though, as soon as they release Ice Cream Sandwich, I'm sure xda will have it on a ton of devices.

Hell, I had my G1 running Froyo.

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Camera wise, until they implement analog zoom, point-and-shoots will always have a distinct advantage.