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It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game.
Don't think this was the case, what helped was it being compiled without optimizations.
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Is this an antithesis to Don't Be Evil?
The P in PNaCl is Portable.
Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.
(Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through)
Crossbridge was its third and most recent name.
Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out.
This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball
Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.
Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago
Yes this isn't clean-room. Though none of these decompilation projects have been resolved in court yet. re3 (GTA3/Vice City decompilation) developers were sued by Take Two but they settled out of court.
Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball
All the SWFs are archived (which is often not the case on Wayback). Just when the program is requesting to load one, archive.org is returning an HTML-wrapped file instead which fails to load. It would be quite easy to add to Flashpoint.
Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.
It's not legal
Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.
One of the difficulties I had searching for J2ME resources is that the mobile equivalent of the JVM is called KVM (K virtual machine), so most of the search results are about Linux's Kernel-based virtual machine instead.