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Hello Kaplin

Here I was thinking it was the other sort of homebrew.

Have one on me.

Kind Regards....

Used a lot of mod chips during my PS2 and Nintendo Era to get those games that were not released in Europe. Emulators were fun to but know there also websites where you can play games from deceased systems like the C64

I have never moded one of my game consoles, but I do believe that this is a highly interesting topic! Who knows?! Maybe I will dabble into the vast unknown (for me) which is called game 'mod'-ing!

Like epke above (post 2) I have played games that run on emulators. I do enjoy playing Super Smash Bros. on my laptop with an N64 emulator. I have also played games that I never had the money before like pokemon! :D

I can't wait to read your next part in this series!

Gee we used to call this hacking before some idiot officials and publishers of dirty laundry couldn't discern hacking from Vandalism.

For those who understand some Nice Hacks guys, I don't approve of the pirating, but penalizing those that don't is not right either.

and Sony you DRM is a joke that slows machines down. Keep your over priced movies I'll watch them on cable.

Brad

Well for those of you interested in the "other" kind of homebrew check out this blog from Workbench Creations.

for the rest of you, Part 2 on Homebrew for the Wii is up now.

A while back I read a book about innovation that focused on the evolution of innovative product development, and a key theme was that "early adopters" would often take a generic product and modify it to suit their particular needs (which generally had not been anticipated by the original developers, who are typically closed inside a box, out of touch with the real world- i.e., software developers). Those companies that encourage such customer activity, even providing assistance, generally have a leg up on competition, at least according to the author of that book. When was the last time you bought software that really worked the way you thought it should? This is the primary reason, I believe, Open Source is such a popular alternative.

Yes in Open source, feedback is more quickly included in the new version.

If you could find the first few issues of Byte or DrDobbs you would find a different side of homebrew. There were some intrepid folks that designed and built their own CPU before the Altair 8800 took the world by storm in January of 1975 (using the Intel 8080 processor running at a screaming 2MHz).

Friends did a homebrew interrupt controller for the 8080 and our computer club sold the bear boards for them (ElPaso Computer Group) via mailorder (before the internet was let out of Darpa days). ...

... My first view of the internet was when a researcher in the EPCG (a member) that worked for the DOD, came in with their dial up terminal to a meeting at a high school where we met, and we could connect at a blazing 110baud and run programs and communicate with computer operators at MIT and Sanford. We dialed in to White Sands Missle Range node to get to DARPA net. It was a real thrill to extrapolate to what we see today. Most of our pipe dreams have been realized, some exceeded, just as you would emagine.

One of the best pictures I saw was a full desk full of 'rats nest' wiring, where some intrepid home brewers built their own CPU (and memory, etc, from TTL logic chips, think nand gates). They tried to 'clean it up' and put it into a rack, but whenever they did the processor stopped working. Whenever they spread the wires out again, it would work. ... A great picture. I wish someone could find it.

Homebrew does have prior history to that, but as so many have exemplified, it tended to have to do with distilling spirits or some form of beer.