roothorick
Active member
A certain run of ICE Deal Or No Deal cabinets were shipped with motherboards that have defective capacitors (the infamous "Capacitor Plague"). All these cabinets are now out of warranty. Worse, this exact motherboard can't be found for sale from any reliable source... except ICE, who will not sell you just the board and demand ~$700 for a complete PC. Oh, what's an FEC to do?
Hack it. Oh yes.
I did some poking around with Parted Magic and found out some interesting things. I'm not sure how much I should post here though. Mods, is it okay if I braindump in this thread as I go through this hack? My goal is to just get the game to run on an "alien" motherboard, quite possibly by replacing the OS partition with a completely different Linux OS and running the game from there. I'm very confident I can leave the copy protection (USB dongle) intact and still get what I want.
Hack it. Oh yes.
I did some poking around with Parted Magic and found out some interesting things. I'm not sure how much I should post here though. Mods, is it okay if I braindump in this thread as I go through this hack? My goal is to just get the game to run on an "alien" motherboard, quite possibly by replacing the OS partition with a completely different Linux OS and running the game from there. I'm very confident I can leave the copy protection (USB dongle) intact and still get what I want.