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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean if it's abandonware it's ethical to reverse engineer and open source the reverse engineered platform, maybe even fork it and provide some sort of extensible framework for various plugins, or convert the kernel to a new architecture or even virtualize it. Hopefully we can also work out the bugs and the more glaring issues soon (looking at you, upright vertebrae).

[–] cm0002 25 points 10 months ago

We're working on it, but the mf was on something, have you seen the digestive system class? Or the central nervous system class?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've heard some people managed to reverse engineer the human, though right now people are trying to figure out whether using a modded version is considered OP

[–] EvilHankVenture 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They decompiled the human, it doesn't mean they understand the code enough to mod it yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Instead of modding, I know a few hackers that have removed whole sections to delete non functioning parts and I know a few others who figured out how to swap parts between different units.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's why you need to open source and freely distribute the mod.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately I heard they forked it to the AI/ automation branch so I don't think that the original maintainers coming back. They're calling it the new best thing