Getaway: High Speed II, The
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Read this thread a couple times now and I don't see any threats or intimidation coming from PPS or from ColorDMD to people using the Pin2DMD product to color their own frames. All I've read as an objective observer are reminders that using copyrighted content and then selling that content is prohibited. Both Rick and Randy have seemed downright polite, even, in this thread.
Quoted from Haymaker:Thats because the threats of litigation went out via pm/email
Ok, but if no copyrighted material is being used/sold then it's unclear as to why there's a problem. If nothing illegal is happening, then nobody should have anything to worry about. I'm actually interested in tinkering around with a pin2dmd... maybe for something like Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Quoted from Otaku:Isn't the game the one sending the signal for what is displayed anyways rather than what SHOULD BE displayed? (i.e. presumably the game boards actually draw the animation itself rather than saying "draw animation X" to the factory original DMD board and then that board pulls it from its own storage.) Pretty sure there's not any copyrighted material in these boards and any animation "rips" would just be used for reference when making the color placements, or no?
Speaking as a coder and someone who's looked at the assembler code for a couple of games (LOTR being one) it looks like the frame is accessed or referred to by a frame number which is pulled from the display rom. I assume the frame number is intercepted by the ColorDMD (or Pin2DMD) software and it substitutes a new color frame for the old one, because it would be much simpler than taking the current uncolored frame and trying to color it on the fly in the software. That would be super complicated to code (speaking as a coder).
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