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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:33:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   oh cool, a game I bought in 1997 and 2013 just recently updated to make you agree to a Disney EULA when you download it, one that tells you not to reverse engineer it!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:34:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     guess I'm finding my old CDs instead of clicking this button

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:38:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I bought and installed this game before I turned 18. So even if there was a shrink-wrap EULA with the game discs, I couldn't agree to the contract.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:42:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Anyway the game is Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight.

     First thing I discovered: They used flex/yacc to generate the parser for their COG scripting language!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:42:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Scott 🏴😷

     @scott fortunately I'm not gonna, I'm just using the files off the disc, the disc I archived to an ISO on my server back in the 90s

   • Scott 🏴😷 (scott@tams.tech)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:42:42 JST Scott 🏴😷

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     @foone yes but I think if you install it again you have to agree again 🤔

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:50:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I wonder how hard/possible it is to reverse a flex/yacc back to an original language definition?

     I don't specifically need that, the language is well understood, but I still wonder

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:52:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     compiled Sep 10 1997, 09:39:21

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 20:57:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     they're using a yacc from 1990?!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:14:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     huh, they try to identify what CPU the user is using. I wonder why.
     It uses DirectX so I don't think it should have it's own 3D engine with optimized per-processor blits or anything

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:22:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I don't think they ever actually check the results of the CPU identification code. This is probably semi-dead code

   • James T Monkey (teamonkey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:31:51 JST James T Monkey

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     @foone MMX was still a thing at that time IIRC, useful even with a graphics card. It was also the era when there were various Intel clone chips with different capabilities, and still a number of DX2 and DX4s about rather than Pentiums.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:31:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • James T Monkey

     @teamonkey it does detect MMX, but it doesn't seem to ever do anything with it

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:55:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh hey someone else has already done a decompilation + port of this!

     https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 22:05:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     including compile it for the web, which is slick