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.:::::. .:::::::::. o _____... Future of Game Machines |
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.::: :::::: :::. :::: :::: / \ | Toxic File #22 |
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:: :::: :: ::::. : Dear, say | by Gross Genitalia |
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: :: : :::::::. hello to |___________________________|
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:: :::::::. Fetus and his friend Mr. Gun!
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:::: oxic :::......::::: hock - Centre of Eternity 615.552.5747
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.::::::. :::::::::::: HQ for The Esoteric Society
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:::::::::::: :::::::::: and Toxic Shock
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Game machines. Made popular by that crummy piece of shit Atari. The 2600.
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The 5200. The 7800. The 2600 again, this time in a smaller cheaper plastic
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case and now selling for around 40 bucks. Nintendo. First making their stand
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in the form of arcade machines in the first half of the eighties. Now the
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most popular home game machine around. Sega comes along. A Nintendo-style
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reject striving to be popular and releasing a 16-bit-based Sega Machine.
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The year 2015. Nintendo can't stand Sega's release of a 32-bit megamachine.
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Nintendo releases its 64-bit Home Game System From Hell Supersystem. Yeah,
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that should hold them for awhile.
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Little Billy wanted the new system soooo bad. His parents finally bought it
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for him for Christmas. They were soooo happy to see Little Billy play on his
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system. He really enjoyed it.
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Bullshit. Little Billy wasn't as Little as his parents thought him to be.
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He lied. He plotted. He was so cunning that his parents thought him out to be
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a perfect little angel. Ha! Billy was smart. Billy applied himself. In the
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recent days the fall of Ma Bell brought about a widespread heaven among
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hackers. Everyone was hacking. Everyone was getting busted too. What Nintendo
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of America did not know was that they had left a little loophole in their new
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64-bit system that Little Billy was about to work through.
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Billy was playing around inside his new system, as all good little nosy
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electronics freaks do. "Billy what the HELL are you doing?" "Uh nothing
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Dad, I just thought I spilt a little Super-Caffeinated Jolt Cola in my
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Nintendo SuperSystem that's all!" "Okay." Billy found that the game ports
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were hooked to a decoder chip. And from this game port Billy could pull more
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functions that up, down, left, right, fire, select, turbo fire. In fact he
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had up the twenty separate connections he could make, and feed to the decoder.
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That cheap-ass 8-bit Nintendo still left around from the twentieth century
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had been ripped apart by Billy, who for five dollars got his hand on a
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broken one. He fixed up up and got it working. Ha! It was so easy. He could
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program his own GAMES for them! Billy saw the same kind of logic in his new
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64-bit system. Programming.
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He went down to the garage and burned in a few IC's and soldered them to a
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piece of perfboard. He shoved it into his new system. Boom. It WORKED!
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It was a simple loop to process values from the controller decoder and
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display the values they returned. He built a simple controller with twenty
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buttons and coded them into a seven-conductor wire. Hooked them in. Each
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button returned a separate value. He then reversed the process.
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In place of the controller he hooked up a series of twenty LED's on a
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breadboard. He burned in another IC, a simple program which would return
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the process and send values FROM the IC TO the controller decoder.
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Voila, the damned thing was also an ENcoder. It coded the values and
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pumped them out the the breadboard. A set of LED's would flash, some not
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at all, when the IC send out values. Billy decided to analyze the
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encoder/decoder chip. He burned in an IC that replicated the decoder
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portion of the chip. He hooked it into the breadboard and wired the LED's
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appropriately.
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Ah ha, as the IC sent out its separate values, the encoder/decoder routine
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flashed each LED successively. No grouping. No blanks. Everything worked.
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Billy the Kid became Billy the Hacker in Hacker Heaven.
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Billy's little 64-bit machine WAS quite compact. Technology had provided it
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to be even smaller than that oh so ANCIENT Sega 16-bit. Billy decided to
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try his hand at Nintendo hacking. He popped open his Zelda VI: Ganon Returns
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Again cartridge and studied the circuitry which allowed game storage and
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its power source of a lithium battery. Logical, he thought.
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His master plan. He would devise a code hacker to be stored on a cartridge
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with the necessary IC's, capacitors, etc, to run the "program". He would
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store the codes in a bank of RAM chips, to be powered by a lithium backup
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battery so the codes would be retained when he removed the cartridge.
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He wrote his program on his Amiga 4500HD 64-bit 68050 computer. The 68885
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math coprocessor within helped speed his program. Damn good code hacker,
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but he couldn't very well cart his Amiga around with him.
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He translated his Amiga code hacker to raw electronic form. Not-gates.
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And-gates. Transistors. The works. He devise schematics for IC's to do the
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work. Months of long hard work. His plan was ready.
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He popped down to the garage to the Sirius Cybernetics IC Synthesizer and
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punched in his schematic. He dropped a few micro-transistors and resistors
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and such into the hopper and the machine went to work. A crude machine,
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Billy planned to build a perfected model when he grew older. The completed
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chips dropped into the tray. Billy soldered sockets onto a piece of copper
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clad board he had already etched. He put the chips in their respective
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sockets and soldered on a few other necessary components. He made sure the
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right connections were hooked to the right pins on the edgeboard connector.
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He took a spare game controller cable and wired the correct leads to the
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four conductors of a standard phone cable. He was a genius; his plan
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was ready.
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He tried out his project for the first time on his own system. Perfect.
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The menu screen came up and he selected a few non-volatile options. Ones
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that would not hack actual code through actual ports but dial a few
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local board to see if it would detect carrier at various baud rates.
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Perfect. He chose to use 300 baud as the detect rate since that seemed more
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logical to him. Everything would detect 300 baud, perfect in his mind.
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After blowtorching the entire "program", Billy was ready to hack his ass off.
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He took the thing to school with him. "Oh gee mom, I have basketball
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practice today!" "Okay dear." Ha! Likely excuse. Billy snuck down the
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hallway to the teacher's lounge. He popped out a few ceiling tiles and found
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the phone cable leading to the office. He yanked out the wires connecting
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line four and hooked alligator clips from he cord on his Nintendo to the
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phone line. This deadened the line four on the actual phone but what the hell,
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what teacher was going to use line FOUR? Oh well. He spliced a cable out of
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the nearest electrical line in the ceiling and ran it over to power his
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Nintendo. With controller one he selected his hacking options. Multi-port.
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Programmed the different ports. Multi-carrier. He programmed twenty
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long distance computers from various areas of the country. Done. He unplugged
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the controller and replaced the ceiling tile. He picked up on line four.
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Dead. He went to another teacher's lounge. Line four. Dead. No big shit.
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Next day. "Mom, got track meet." "Okay." He went back and plugged in the
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controller and broke out of hack mode. He went to list mode. Four valid
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codes came up on the screen. He called various bullshit around the country
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(time and temperature, weather) to see if the Gestapo came after the school.
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A simple measure to see if any of them were puposely bad accounts. None
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seemed to be. Hacker heaven.
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Billy has not been caught yet. From 2015 until now he has used the Nintendo
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method. Until another Ma Bell Gestapo comes along to monopolize the
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telecommunications world, Billy will continue to hack codes. And use them.
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And feel good about his achievements.
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But seriously. As we sit here at the end of the eighth decade of the twentieth
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century, A.D., we see an 8-bit Nintendo. An 8- and 16-bit Sega. And still we
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see the .000000000004-bit Atari 2600. Will game machines advance this far in
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the future, by the Time of Little Billy in 2015? Or will they die out as fad,
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and hit home towards the personal computer market?
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(c)1989 Toxic Shock
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The Follwers of Fetus the Destroyer
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Bloody Afterbirth Gross Genitalia
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Fetal Juice Twisted Testicles
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Tasty Abortion Maybe an unnamed member.
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