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<B><FONT SIZE=+2>Nocash Project Donations</FONT></B><P>
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Donations would very welcome! Either as reward for the work that I've already
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done, or for covering my expenses on future projects/updates
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(that's mainly food/rent, unfortunately even those minimal expenses for basic
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requirements can sum up when spending 1-3 months on researching or developing
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new stuff).
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<B><FONT SIZE=+2>Patreon</FONT></B><P>
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For becoming a patron,
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<A HREF="https://www.patreon.com/martin_korth">click here</A>.<BR>
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Patreon is some sort of fundraiser, allowing to support creators with
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<I>monthly</I> donations.
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<B><FONT SIZE=+2>Credit Cards</FONT></B><P>
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For credit cards,
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<A HREF="https://secure.problemkaputt.de/checkout.php">click here</A>,
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select currency and amount, then key in your card details.<BR>
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Credit card transfers should work worldwide, with international transaction
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fees are less than 3% plus some cents (paid by the recipient; not by the
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sender), which is ways cheaper than overseas bank transfers.
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<B><FONT SIZE=+2>Bitcoin Donations</FONT></B>
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<IMG SRC="bitcoin.gif" WIDTH=252 HEIGHT=252>
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<A HREF="bitcoin:16HLwn5o9DQuCPot8btPLZEG6xXsCwm612?label=NocashProject">16HLwn5o9DQuCPot8btPLZEG6xXsCwm612</A>
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<!---img src="http://ansrv.com/png?s=donations so far: &size=3" WIDTH=126 HEIGHT=14--->
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<!--- donations so far:
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<img src="http://ansrv.com/png?s=http://blockexplorer.com/q/getreceivedbyaddress/16HLwn5o9DQuCPot8btPLZEG6xXsCwm612&c=000000&b=FFFFFF&size=3">
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btc - many thanks!
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For bitcoin donations scan the QR code on the left, or click the wallet number underneath of the QR code (or copy/paste the wallet number if your browser doesn't handle bitcoin links), and then chose how much would like to donate.
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If you've never used bitcoins: First you'll need to create a wallet,
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ie. simply <A HREF="https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet">download</A>
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a bitcoin utility (I've picked Electrum). The tool will automatically generate
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a random seed based wallet for you (be sure to <i>backup</i> that seed value,
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and to keep it <i>secret</i> in safe place, there's no 'bitcoin authority' that
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could help you to recover your money if you've lost that seed value, or if
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somebody steals the value).
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<BR>
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Next, to receive bitcoins: Ask somebody to send bitcoins to your wallet, or
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buy bitcoins at some marketplace or exchange service, eg. if you are in US,
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search for "exchange USD to BTC" or the like.
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Another option would be mining bitcoins - but that requires a lot of
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processing power (and it's mostly done special mining farms with bitcoin
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dedicated hardware).
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Advantages are that bitcoins have very low transfer fees (without extra fees
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for international transactions), and there aren't any paypal-like institutions
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envolved (which could ban you because they don't like your appearance).
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Concerning anonymity, my understanding is that wallet-to-wallet transaction
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are fairly transparent, so bitcoins aren't as anonymous as most people think,
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and governments might track down your identity as soon as the transaction
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enters the real world (eg. when exchanging bitcoins for real money).
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On the other hand, the raw transactions are done without information on the
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sender's name and without information on the purpose of the transaction, so
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the recipient may have no clue where the money came from what for.
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<B><FONT SIZE=+2>Classic Money Transfers</FONT></B><P>
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<IMG SRC="acc-a.gif" WIDTH=134 HEIGHT=18> Martin Korth<P>
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</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD>
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<IMG SRC="acc-c.gif" WIDTH=134 HEIGHT=18> Hamburger Sparkasse (Germany)<P>
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<IMG SRC="acc-i.gif" WIDTH=134 HEIGHT=18> DE04200505501276456231<P>
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<IMG SRC="acc-b.gif" WIDTH=134 HEIGHT=18> HASPDEHHXXX<P>
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<B>Within Europe</B>, bank offices shouldn't charge any extra fees for
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sending money from one country to another (within <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area">
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SEPA region</A>).<BR>
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If anybody should consider sending moderate monthly donations: That would <I>really</I> help me to keep working without getting too much distracted about monetary problems!<P>
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<B>From outside Europe</B>, there may be quite high transaction fees
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(something like $20 for sending money from US to germany,
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which is rather ridiculous for small amounts).<BR>
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Workarounds could be using services like
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<A HREF="https://transferwise.com/de/">TransferWise</A> or
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<A HREF="http://www.westernunion.com/">Western Union</A>
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which allow to send money to foreign bank accounts at lower fees.
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<B><FONT SIZE=+2>Why no paypal?</FONT></B><P>
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After joining the being banned on paypal club, I've had to investigate
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alternatives - there are in fact dozens or hundreds of alternatives for online
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transactions, but most aren't really suitable for donations on freeware
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projects:<BR>
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Many services are available only in usa, or only in other countries,
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or donation buttons are supported only on business accounts, or only
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to registered charity organizations, or the services are allowing only
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payments for material goods, but not donations. And, they aren't exchangeable;
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one cannot send money from service A to service B.<BR>
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After all, I came up with two methods which seemed to be most reliable and
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most trustworthy to me: Bitcoins, and transfers to regular bank accounts.<BR>
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As by now, I can't say how they will work out in practice. But I can say one
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thing: Never rely on paypal. They can close your account without warning, and
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without even explaining why they are closing it. If you are relying on that
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company then there's really something wrong. Better stop using them now,
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else they may kick you out when you least expect it.
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<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
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<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="TZVX3G6HYFLZW">
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<input type="image" src="donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal">
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</form> this is no good
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<B><FONT SIZE=+2>Why donating anyways?</FONT></B><P>
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Only reason for sending donations would that people might appreciate the
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work that I am doing, and might want to enable me to continue
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doing that work.<P>
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<B>What I am doing</B> is working on <A HREF="index.htm">several</A>
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emulation, debugging, and hardware documentation projects for
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<A HREF="index.htm">several</A> systems. All of them are still in development,
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although I have focused on NDS/DSi, PSX, and SNES in past some months, but the
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older 8bit projects are also updated once or when, or at least planned to be
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so someday.<BR>
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I am normally working <B>seven days a week</B>, or around 350 days per year,
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though updates are released less frequently: I am normally collecting a bunch
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of new features to get a massive and stable update together, one drawback is
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that I am often working slower and slower when getting close to the release day
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(getting stuck on evil "final details" which have summed up on the todo list,
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and which are somewhat required to be implemented before release).<BR>
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The <B>emulation part</B> is maybe just one emulator among dozens of similar
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ones, the only special feature might be that the no$emus are aimed at being
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faster than others, mainly because I like efficient software that runs on
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low-end hardware, and because the emulation (and debugger and user interface
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and everything) is written in plain assembler (ASM) code, without a single
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line of high-level-language (HLL) code.<BR>
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The <B>debugging functions</B> are probably more
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<A HREF="gbapics.htm">confusing</A> and less interesting to most people,
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however, homebrew programmers have reported them to be useful, or even
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extremly useful. In the past, the CGB, GBA, and NDS debuggers have been also
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used by a number of professional game developers.
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Some people also reported that they started learning programming after they
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first got in touch with the no$debuggers in their childhood.<BR>
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The <B>hardware docs</B> like <A HREF="gbatek.htm">gbatek</A>,
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<A HREF="psx-spx.htm">psx-spx</A>, and <A HREF="fullsnes.htm">fullsnes</A>
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started as some side-effect, where I've scribbled down everything that
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I've learned when studying the systems. The docs are quite comprehensive,
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and well, many programmers seem to be really liking those docs.
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Surprisingly, even non-programmers are occassionally confessing that <I>they
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have read the whole document, although they didn't understand anything</I>.
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<BR>
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One of my <B>project goals</B> is helping people to get in touch with
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the functionality of daily-life electronics like gaming consoles, which are
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being a nice example because they are widespread and many children grew up
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with them, and, they are having standarized hardware which can be programmed
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directly without going through operating system functions or software drivers
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- and modern consoles might appear to be mysteriously working magic toys,
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but they are still programmed by, and programmable by mere humans.
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<B>What I need</B> to keep the project going is around 600 EUR/month.
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That is, for a cheap flat (one working room, one living/sleeping room, and
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a kitchen with leaking roof), food, tobacco, coffee, electricity, internet,
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occassional drinks at local underground discos, plus unexpected expenses
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like hair shampou.<BR>
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That 600 EUR is pretty close to the limit needed for living in hamburg/germany,
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still it's quite a lot of money.
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When I am up to some new hardware, I can forget about time and everything
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and spend a month or two on reasearching formerly undocumented hardware details.
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And when I am done with it, I am often ending up as <I>That was cool, but,
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oops, where's the money gone that I did have when I started working on that
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project?</I><BR>
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<B>Oh, and what I have</B> is nothing: No regular income. I am working
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fulltime on the no$project and I really like doing that work.
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I might be able to keep the projects going when working halftime on some
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real-world job, but I would really prefer to be able to continue working
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fulltime.
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With thousands of downloads per day it could be probably possible to collect
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20 EUR/day just via donations. But of course, it's up to everybody to decide
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whether or not they want to donate something for my stuff
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(and whether they can afford to do so).
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<B><FONT SIZE=+4>Many Thanks</FONT></B><P>
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to everybody who is donating something,
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or who already donated something in the past,
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no matter if it's a big or small amount,
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- your support is really valuable to me!
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And thanks for reading. Or if you didn't read any of the above the stuff,
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sorry about writing that much crap.
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