One of the holy grails of the NUON scene has been uncovered. Skah_T has come across the essential tool to allow homebrew NUON developers full access to create software for every NUON player, not just those capable of playing CD-Rs. The authentication software basically breaks down any barriers there were to creating full DVD-compatible NUON software.
Download the file and check out the disc at the DragonShadow Industries site. There is documentation included in the .zip file so download, play around and get some NUON DVD software going!
NUON-Dome forum member cdoty has turned up a final version of Riff’s NUON emulator, Nuance. This version was presumably completed and ready for release prior to Riff’s death in August, but he never got to share it with the rest of the world.
We’re happy now to be able to share this with everyone, the last available revision of his work. Here’s what the Readme file says is new:
6/08/2007, version 0.5.1:
Fixed compiler bug that caused nearly all programs to crash when constant propagation and
dead code elimination was enabled.
The file has been archived here on our servers and is available on the Downloads page or directly by clicking here.
Just a quick heads-up in case you haven’t visited the forums in a while — we’ve recently given them a face-lift to match the rest of the site. Gone is the old thehelper.net look which, while functional, really didn’t mesh with N-D.
So, thanks to the help of Ghan_04 and The Helper, the forums are looking much better. Stop in, check it out and say hi!
The next installment of DragonShadow’s video blog series on NUON is here, this time it takes a look at the NUON development system. Skah_T shows us what the system consists of and gets into his plans for putting the hardware in a more compact and attractive case.
Mike Perry, known in the NUON scene as “Riff,” has passed away. He died from a cranial aneurysm on August 1 at the age of 32. Perry’s father recently contacted a few people from the NUON scene to make us aware of the situation.
Perry was the author of the NUON emulator Nuance, through which he brilliantly reverse-engineered the NUON hardware with minimal documentation and assistance. Though Perry was typically quiet and seemed to prefer to toil away at the intricacies of the hardware, he was a brilliant mind and his work will live on through Nuance.
Perry’s father has offered to share the files off of his son’s computer, which should be available to the NUON community in the matter of a few days. Hopefully someone can pick up the pieces and continue where he left off.
Feel free to leave any comments about Perry in this thread. For a particularly good example of just a shred of his knowledge, check out his back-and-forth discussion of PS3’s Cell processor in comparison to NUON in this thread.
