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Comment · 1 month ago
There's a big gap between the top 2 solvers (Yiheng Wang and Xuanyi Geng) and everyone right now. Yunzhi Lian is 4th in the world.
Comment · 3 months ago
It was changed to '46 today
Comment · 4 months ago
> 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 optimizations.

Comment · 4 months ago
> Wicked For Good

Is this an antithesis to Don't Be Evil?

Comment · 5 months ago
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 Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball

Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.

Comment · 5 months ago
Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago
Comment · 5 months ago
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 settled out of court.
Comment · 5 months ago
Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball
Comment · 8 months ago
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 fails to load. It would be quite easy to add to Flashpoint.
Comment · 8 months ago
Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.
Comment · 10 months ago
> 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.

Comment · 11 months ago
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's Kernel-based virtual machine instead.

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