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In the Disney movie 'Wreck it Ralph', arcade characters sort of had a 'Toy Story' spin on them, where they basically were alive in a way, having their own identity/personality/free will when the games were in idle. One additional thing to this was that they could move from their primary game into others, via a surge protector their arcade machine was connected to.

As a computer programmer of many years, I knew this was silly, programs don't work that way. But it got me thinking, what would it take to pull this off? To actually move an entity, as a whole, from one program to another in real time, without interrupting the normal operation of the independent OSs, and not just a simple, hide the character in one machine, and show it in another type cheat?

The idea of the application is to allow characters to move from machine to machine, copying their GFX, SFX, and machine code to a central device, once there, all it's data is deleted from the original machine's memory. This central device will then move the data to the next machine.

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I chose a baremetal environment for the project as I wanted the quickest boot time, plus I have the most control over instruction/memory layout.

Challenges of using a Linux based kernel is that boot time is slower, not a real time OS, memory management is a pain and too slow.

The Kernels start at address 0x8000, where the stack, exception/interrupt vectors are set up, and other special CPU stuff like the MMU/VFP/NEON. The ARM architecture is very good for relative based code/data offsets, so moving binaries around across systems only has an issue with the MMU, which I'm only using the supervisor mode, with no read/write/execute restrictions.

Each OS/game at it's core must be

capable of sending information about it's environment, whether it's a side-scroller, top down view, FPS, 2D/3D type views. Also gravity, physics, life/score/time/spawn systems and human interface devices information.

While each entity also must be capable of interacting in all of these environments. For example, a Pac-Man character in a side scroller must only move left and right, and must not move up and down, unless the physics/level rules dictate other wise.

Each game must have a special zone where entities may leave or enter the system. Upon doing so, all pointers, code, graphics, palettes, SFX associated with that entity, will be copied to the central system. Upon upload verification, all of this data is deleted, relinquishing the human interface devices, and the kernel will no longer make calls to the entities' now missing sub routines. Each system must not know that a entity is missing by a simple marked flag in memory, but only by the lack of feedback from the entities' interactions with the environment.

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Each entity will occupy a slot in the the system it resides in, this slot retrieves data from it's particular human interface device data from the environment and the kernel will make calls to the entities' sub routines via pointers.

All systems are connected to one another via I2C. If a system is powered off and a visiting entity is present, then it will cease to exist until it's original system is restarted. This poses an issue of character duplication, a solution to this could be to keep character data external to the kernel, upon initial startup, it will be copied into ram, then deleted from storage. Doing an APB upon boot could also fix the issue, but this falls away from what goes on in the movie.

Right now the project uses 2 Raspberry Pi Bs, and one Raspberry Pi B+2 as the central hub. All 3 are connected to 17' monitors, I have a wide variety of controllers to use. I use 3 ATX power supplies, one for each monitor, and RPI.

My plan is to have Fix it Felix Jr., a central hub program, and PacMan or Donkey Kong running on the 3 systems.

Using multiple Raspberry Pi Zeros would make this quite a simple task as some of the GPIOs can be stacked together via headers. 5V, GND, I2C lines, or use a parallel bus.

For years, when it came to Thanksgiving, big box-office debuts for Disney animated films were as traditional as turkey and cranberry sauce. This year, however, the studio ceded that prime cartoon slot to DreamWorks Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians,” which opens Wednesday.

But don’t shed any tears for the Mouse House. It scored big after going out early with “Wreck-it Ralph” and may have found a new launch pad for animated blockbusters.

To put things in perspective, four of the top five all-time Thanksgiving weekend openers have been Disney animated releases: “Toy Story 2” ($57 million in 1999), “Tangled” ($48 million, 2010), “101 Dalmatians ($33 million, 1996) and “A Bug’s Life” ($33 million, 1998). Last year, Disney’s “The Muppets” was the top opener with $29 million. (See chart)

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This year, Disney opened “Wreck-It Ralph” on Nov. 2. The animated homage to classic videogames has rolled up $121 million since opening to $49 million; over the weekend, its third, it took in $18 million. Its only other holiday animated release will be the re-release of 'Monsters, Inc.' in 3D on Dec. 21,

There is logic to the change.

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“Thanksgiving is a great jumping off point and certainly did a ton for the start we had with ‘Tangled’ back in 2010, or even the opening of ‘Muppets’ last year,” Disney’s head of distribution Dave Hollis told TheWrap. “But the beginning of November is actually where we’ve had more of our fall and holiday pictures over time — and where we’ve had the most recent success.”

He cited two Disney films that opened in the first week of November as examples. “Monsters Inc.” opened into $62 million on Nov. 2, 2001, and went to make $255 million domestically. “The Incredibles” debuted to $70 million on Nov. 5, 2004, and ran up $261 million.

The holiday rollout is a natural for “Rise of the Guardians,” which has a star-studded voice cast.

Based on the William Joyce’s “Guardians of Childhood” series, it tells the tale of Jack Frost (Chris Pine), who gets help from Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) and the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman) after the evil Pitch (Jude Law) threatens the children of the world.

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Don Harris, head of distribution at Paramount, which is distributing 'Guardians,' told TheWrap he was very happy to have the date.

'This film has so many holiday themes,' he said, 'and though it’s not a Christmas movie in the literal sense, we think it’s timed perfectly to play through the entire holiday season.”

Warner Bros. had success with a similar long-term holiday strategy on the 2004 film “The Polar Express.” That was another computer animated family film that wasn’t a Christmas film per se but played well through year’s end and ran up a $182 million domestic total after opening on Nov. 2 with $23 million.

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While Harris would just as soon not go head-to-head with 'Ralph,' he's convinced there's room in the market for both films.

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'The key to success for 'Rise of the Guardians' will be whether it can leg it out to the end of the year,' he said.