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Amiga of Rochester has been doing a lot of recaps for people lately.

This is the firmware extracted from the ADB controller chip (342S0440-B) from a Mac SE. The chip is a PIC16CR54. It was delayered by Johan Grip, stained and imaged by John McMaster, and the firmware extracted from the die images by Olivier Galibert. It should be possible to put this firmware...

I take offense at this assumption! =P

Wireshark has a Lua API that you can use to write "packet dissector" plugins. Wireshark sends your Lua plugin the raw packet buffer and you tell Wireshark what it means.

Status update. I have written the network proxy code that can rewrite packets as they pass between players. At first I just implemented the packets that have a fixed position format. This worked surprisingly well. There are at least two issues. One is when players leave, one of the opcode-based...

I agree, it would be awesome if gcp would implement this.

We can add tracker functionality to the proxy. Right now I'm just focused on getting the proxy to work for a single game. Then we can make it support multiple games. For tracking, maybe just start with a web page. The utility:effort ratio decreases significantly at this point, because I don't...

It lives up in the clouds! I plan to host it on my server. But it will also be open source, so anyone could run their own proxy.

Right. The proxy essentially converts the protocol into a client-server model. Every Bolo instance sends and receives its packets to/from the proxy. This will have repercussions in the form of increased latency. But it has a side-benefit of possibly not requiring port forwarding. Here's a...

The problem with doing "search and replace" on the UDP packets is that the 4 bytes that represent a player's IP address can also completely legitimately be game data. Blindly replacing that data will cause infrequent but infuriating bugs. The simplest thing to deal with would have been packet...

Nubolo claims they examined the original Bolo code to figure out game mechanics: tank acceleration, firing rate, pillbox firing rate based on health, various timers, etc. In Winbolo, those various mechanics were just made-up and did not match Bolo.

Sorry, I bounced my idea off cheesestraws for sanity checking but didn't post the details here. My idea was for all the Bolo players to join a virtual private network. Then there would be no NAT and Bolo would work. The Raspberry Pi would act as the VPN gateway (since a retro Mac has no hope of...

LaPorta and cheesestraws did both of these already. I haven't verified myself, but I trust the result.

All the wording around the tracker implies that it is an outside service not in involved in hosting the game itself, just tracking games in progress. If it's not hosting the games then it can't rewrite packets. However, I did find this, which would explain things. The tracker wouldn't rewrite...

How do you figure that the tracker software would solve things?