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So you do some reverse-engineering. On the whole it isn't much work than other consoles of that generation. The only reason there hasn't been any activity is because nobody (outside of the Xbox backwards compatibility team) sat down and did the work (because there's no incentive to)
> tricky graph searches
> finding eigenvectors
> building heaps
> balancing trees
> non-recursive quicksorts
All these 'scary' 'hardcore' things are covered in the first year of most good CS programs.
Mobile data in South Africa is actually pretty cheap in absolute terms, though of course it's still extremely expensive compared to average income.
[1] http://www.vodacom.co.za/vodacom/shopping/data/prepaid-data
"The NSWEC believes that unfettered access to source code by the general public would not be in the best interest of the State" (http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/...)
This apparently matters so much that it was specifically criminalised:
"A person must not disclose to any other person any source code or other computer software that relates to technology assisted voting under the approved procedures, except in accordance with the approved procedures or in accordance with any arrangement entered into by the person with the Electoral Commissioner. Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both." (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/peaea19123...)
Oh, and the whole thing runs on custom javascript crypto: https://cvs.ivote.nsw.gov.au/scy-libs/crypto-lib.js
Also, a while ago I was working on making JDownloader less terrible (it should work like wget, UNIX philosophy and all). It's very labor-intensive though, but I may continue if enough people are interested (or help out): https://github.com/espes/jdget
The current shader "backend" (that is, a microcode assembler) is at https://github.com/grate-driver/grate/tree/master/src/libcgc. Shader compilation would be done by mesa. The rest of libGLESv2 seems unimplemented for now.
Actually, the way it's written it seems that folks at Avionics Designs did not have access to any documentation and it's pretty much a reverse-engineered effort anyway.
Though you're right, it's a possibility :(
(The PoC as it is doesn't actually do anything...)
Here's case 8 to give you an idea: http://i.imgur.com/1fFzO.png :P
Test data here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/76985/life-all-linux.zip