Andrew - EOSHD

Here's the recipe, I'm going to lay it out in totality for the click weasel snapgrammers who definitely always credit their sources. 1. Download Claude and stick it up your fucking arse. 2. Buy an S9, your first Lumix camera 3. (The real secret was Le Chonk, the French AI model) 4. Sit back and let the youtube ad revenue flow in

I misread that as cripple hammer and chisel

Does that fit in the hotshoe?

Connect it to HDMI and bingo you have a games console

Pretty much anything you can dream of and can write in C code or Arm64. It even has a bluetooth host and USB HID capability which means all sorts of accessories can be accommodated with custom functionality. Steam Controller 2 as a follow focus anyone? 🙂

GX9 is on the to-do list. Quake on the S9 is a proof of concept, a way to understand all the CPU and camera systems. I have it so the shutter button shoots the shotgun. It's very satisfying 🙂 It is now reliably 60fps without screen tearing or long load times, and the Pana UI gets out the way. So it's now understood how to draw on screen, how to disable default key actions and override them with our own control scheme, how to manage DMA memory and read/writes to the card, that's why a complex game is better than taking baby steps with basic 'hello world' stuff or menu tweaks, and so on. My LLM now has a comprehensive understanding of the ROM, the CPU, RAM, DMA, physical controls and so on. 5 years of work done in a single week. Next up is audio, I'd like to get Quake's SFX working before the YouTube video gets shot of it all working. Then starting work on adding camera features and actually useful stuff is much easier, having laid all the foundations in a solid way with Quake. It boots automatically from SD card as well, without any need to enable service mode. So very nice to use. Installing / enabling it for first time however is not a neat package yet. It'll remain closed source for a few months then I'll assess again. If I gave it all out now I'd have to take on an unacceptable level of legal risk and email work, from people complaining that it isn't 100% reliable yet and don't want any bricked cameras billed to my Greggs sausage roll account. Once it's further down the road it should see light of day as long as Panasonic don't have me assassinated and Tony fucking Northrup doesn't do it first with Claude Vulture 7.8 on a spare weekend whilst sat in the bath.

Skipped Doom on the S9... Went straight to Quake at 60fps. It makes the EOS R5 look like a bit of a potato. Blog post and YouTube video coming soon.

Nothing about it was easy 🙂 I can assure you that much!!

When you run code in RAM you can do pretty much anything like Magic Lantern or the Sigma Fp hacks, so raw video, open gate and V-LOG for the GX80 is definitely on the cards. The S9 has a 64bit CPU so plenty of power to play with there. Got to explore the hardware now and build the first proper feature for it so keep an eye on the blog for further developments!

Exactly it's a multiplier not a remove the human from the loop clanker. More people should embrace it!

With the help of our AI friends, the first Panasonic hack since the GH2 has arrived. So far the S9 and GX80 have the hack. It auto-executes code from the card at boot, enabling the same kind of range of mods Magic Lantern does but on Lumix cameras for the first time. It takes compiled C code binaries and Arm64 code. The CPU is extremely powerful... 64bit vs the 32bit EOS R5. More info soon. GM5 and GX9 to follow

Don't worry nothing will be worth releasing at this rate anyway, as the social media influencers would have flooded the market with magic lantern based bait for free and sucked up all the attention out the room. Mario (NES version) on 200D has millions of views on Instagram. Mario 64 on a camera never hacked before (R8 and R5)... Crickets. If this has taught me a lesson, it is that the internet is no longer about merit.

They are both Arm64. That doesn't give an M1 Mac permission to bypass Nintendo's encryption, that's a separate issue.

Well, that's your choice isn't it? It doesn't mean to say others won't, but this is why a degree of professionalism and doing software as a livelihood matters because if its just engineered as influencer bait and flung out for free, you're more likely to end up with a brick. On the other hand if the source is trusted and the risk is assessed as being very low, I'd pay for that personally especially if it enables a feature on a camera in a world first that's useful. It also depends what type of mod it is... Does it flash firmware? Or does it enable an existing service mode to run scripts off a card? This is where a bit of knowledge from the customer helps so they can understand the risk being diving in with some Instagrammer's free shit. As for vibe coding... Depending on the combination of what type of human and what type of AI model wrote the code, the quality of the vibe coded version is a very wide spectrum... It can wind up being much better than the human slop code and better than some of the human professional code as well. OK So we agree that real knowledge and thought are worth paying for. How do you square that with "Imagine if Magic Lantern came with a pricetag!" then? Especially those pros who used it for paid work in the mid 2010s and delivered raw Cinema DNG to paying clients, without even so much as a donation to those who put the hard work in. I am skeptical - the software needs to break the encryption or emulate what the Switch hardware decoder does.

That could be an interesting way of doing it. Influencers open sourcing stuff for attention has done a lot of damage to expectations. If a mod or software is relatively low effort (like most free stuff is) and unsupported, of course giving it away will drum up attention for clicks...For anything of high quality, the dev has to take on the legal risk, the bricking risk, and the customer support emails - it's a full time job.