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JohnnyDude
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Hi there.
We're attempting to start an open-source 3DO emulator. I've gotten only a couple people on board, and someone suggested to me that I ask the Ur-Quan Masters development team for help. It was suggested that the early stages of this project probably including disassembling 3do code. Is this true?
I would like to know if there's any interest in helping on this effort! 3DO is very complicated.
Also, I apologize for doing the typical register-then-post-new-thread newbie act. But I did honestly search the forums for this information beforehand!
--Johnny
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Defender
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Why not contribute to an aready exsisting 3DO Emulater...Freedo Just a suggestion.
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Novus
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Fot or not?
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There is a section of the FreeDO FAQ that is especially relevant to you:
Q. What happened to the Open-Source FreeDO Project, located at http://freedo.sourceforge.net?A. While I (awright69) would have liked to have kept the project open, I was shown by felixl that we couldn't legally do this. The 3DO architecture is very well isolated by cryptographic protections in hardware and software, and also by patents and IP laws which prevent the public disclose of much of its inner workings, and revealing those would have left the project far too open to legal action. While it can be argued that the 3DO or its technologies are outdated, patent and IP law simply does not allow for that. (Thanks to ewhac for pointing that out. You’re right, I was naïve.) If someone wants to find a way to do this without stepping on anyone's legal toes, please go ahead. The FreeDO open-source page will remain only as a marker for historical purposes, with a link to the closed source page, and no code or methods from the 3DO or this project was ever, or will ever be, hosted there. You may want to ask the FreeDO devs to re-examine their source release stance; the relevant patents may have expired in the time since they went closed source. If there are still relevant patents and your interest is primarily is being open source unlike FreeDO, you may have a problem.
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JohnnyDude
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My rank on the forum is "Zebranky Food", huh? Bah. I'm no Spathi coward.
By the way, the starbase commander claims to have 2000 "warm bodies" on the starbase, but I've put this to the test, and sold several thousand crew members to the Druuge without running out.
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