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Take the 'VideoNOW' players being advertised these days. Mini-CD players with a low-resolution grayscale LCD screen on top.
There's this big hullabaloo about 'reverse engineering' the file format and it being 'cracked' and 'busted wide open' after 'weeks of work' (actual quotes) that I've been noticing more recently.
( Click to read the gorey details of the file format. )
But what blows my mind, is that anyone could possibly think this 'file format' is something to blab about having cracked. It's like saying you worked for SCO, it's just something to convert too, release the code, and be done with. It's such a trivial application (bitmap images stored in the left channel of the audio track of the CD) that I'm truly amazed anyone could try to claim 'fame' from it.
And no, I'm not saying that because I'm smart, this file format is honestly simpler to understand than a Windows .BMP file. =-.-=
There's this big hullabaloo about 'reverse engineering' the file format and it being 'cracked' and 'busted wide open' after 'weeks of work' (actual quotes) that I've been noticing more recently.
( Click to read the gorey details of the file format. )
But what blows my mind, is that anyone could possibly think this 'file format' is something to blab about having cracked. It's like saying you worked for SCO, it's just something to convert too, release the code, and be done with. It's such a trivial application (bitmap images stored in the left channel of the audio track of the CD) that I'm truly amazed anyone could try to claim 'fame' from it.
And no, I'm not saying that because I'm smart, this file format is honestly simpler to understand than a Windows .BMP file. =-.-=