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Defcon craving

Postby LtWaldo » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:04 am

<whine>

Am I alone in wanting this game so bad? Like I obsessively check the IV website/forums...it's bad. It just looks like sooo much fun.

I'll pay $100 to anyone who can provide me Defcon. Please, IV, sell it to me now!

</whine>

edit: reward upped to $200

edit2: reward upped to $300
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Postby Montyphy » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:12 am

Only $100? That's merely £55 over here. That may do for a night at pub, kabab and a cab home but its not enough to be giving you the game.
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Postby LtWaldo » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:13 am

ok...fine...$200.
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Postby trickfred » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:14 am

Uh... sure... I'l just PM you a bank account and transit number... and I'll see that the funds make it through the proper channels...

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Postby Montyphy » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:16 am

Dude, we're looking for a minimum of 4 figures here.
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Postby xander » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:39 am

Would I be correct in assuming that the Defcon beta, like the Darwinia beta, is customised for each machine, and that only the person with that machine can play it? Thus, while someone could, in theory, send you the files, they wouldn't work.

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Postby Montyphy » Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:37 am

I h4ckzd into Chris' computer via interNIC and stole the source code. n00b was only using a level 4 proxy and level 3 firewall. :twisted:

LtWaldo, give me $1,000 and I'll provide you with some interesting source code. :D
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Postby LtWaldo » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:56 am

xander wrote:Would I be correct in assuming that the Defcon beta, like the Darwinia beta, is customised for each machine, and that only the person with that machine can play it? Thus, while someone could, in theory, send you the files, they wouldn't work.

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Theoretically, how would you customize it for each machine? MAC addresses? Serial numbers? A validation system with the IV server? All of these protections could be overcome.
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Postby Montyphy » Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:30 am

Well Chris used some l33t coding which uses your hardware specs to generate machine code from the source that will only operate on that hardware. But luckly I have the source so I can just compile it all locally and it works fine.
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Postby xander » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:44 pm

Montyphy wrote:Well Chris used some l33t coding which uses your hardware specs to generate machine code from the source that will only operate on that hardware. But luckly I have the source so I can just compile it all locally and it works fine.

Not just the hardware. Every time I ran a system update during the Darwinia beta, I was forced to update my system information, and download a new version of the beta. This is the information that was submitted to IV:

Code: Select all

SysInfoGenVersion: 2
CpuVendor: PowerPC 7450
CpuModel: ppc7450
Num Processors: 1
Country: Any
Language: en_GB
Num sound devices: 1
Primary sound device: Built-in Audio
Graphics Card: ATY,RV350M10
Operating System: Darwin 7.8.0
Computer Name: nausicaa

So, I assume that changing any of those things would throw off the code.

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Postby Montyphy » Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:35 pm

Surely that information was only used as a check that the download was being started by the machine that was signed up for beta testing.
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Postby trickfred » Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:44 pm

Montyphy wrote:Surely that information was only used as a check that the download was being started by the machine that was signed up for beta testing.


Nope. A good portion of Darwinia beta testers can't run their beta versions anymore, as they've upgraded hardware since then, or so I've been told by a few beta testers.
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Postby shinygerbil » Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:30 pm

Wierd, that. You'd think that good software would be able to run on all machines ;)
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Postby Phydaux » Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:46 pm

trickfred wrote:
Montyphy wrote:Surely that information was only used as a check that the download was being started by the machine that was signed up for beta testing.


Nope. A good portion of Darwinia beta testers can't run their beta versions anymore, as they've upgraded hardware since then, or so I've been told by a few beta testers.
This is exactly true. I can't run any of the original betas or RC's. It's a shame... I like some of the older versions.
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Postby xander » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:39 pm

Phydaux wrote:
trickfred wrote:
Montyphy wrote:Surely that information was only used as a check that the download was being started by the machine that was signed up for beta testing.


Nope. A good portion of Darwinia beta testers can't run their beta versions anymore, as they've upgraded hardware since then, or so I've been told by a few beta testers.
This is exactly true. I can't run any of the original betas or RC's. It's a shame... I like some of the older versions.

You miss the tanks, don't you?

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