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Randomno

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    Comment #49016685

    It was changed to '46 today

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    Comment #48707450

    > It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game. Don't think this was the case, what helped was it being compiled without opt…

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    Comment #48563719

    > Wicked For Good Is this an antithesis to Don't Be Evil?

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    Comment #48210726

    The P in PNaCl is Portable. Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash …

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    Comment #48210479

    > (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through) Crossbridge was its third and most recent name. Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that d…

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    Comment #48088476

    This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.

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    Comment #48087045

    Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago

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    Comment #48084358

    Yes this isn't clean-room. Though none of these decompilation projects have been resolved in court yet. re3 (GTA3/Vice City decompilation) developers were sued by Take Two but they…

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    Comment #48084325

    Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball

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    Comment #47037555

    All the SWFs are archived (which is often not the case on Wayback). Just when the program is requesting to load one, archive.org is returning an HTML-wrapped file instead which fai…

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    Comment #47029869

    Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.

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    Comment #46325088

    > It's not legal Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.

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    Comment #45992736

    One of the difficulties I had searching for J2ME resources is that the mobile equivalent of the JVM is called KVM (K virtual machine), so most of the search results are about Linux…