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Oct 28, 2026

Steve EndowHOST
18:58
And it is phenomenal.
Steve EndowHOST
19:01
So WordCraft over on the right there, that's basically a 90 megabyte download, single file, single EXE.
Steve EndowHOST
19:09
So when you open the launcher and it says, oh, you have an update, you click update, it downloads a new 90 meg EXE that's Rust.
Steve EndowHOST
19:18
And then you launch it, it loads instantly.
Steve EndowHOST
19:21
No DLLs, no registry, none of the janky stuff that is required for a typical Windows install.
Jim LeeGUEST
52:55
So reverse engineering or decoding, decompiling... you know, they've come up with really nifty ways to make it harder to get what you have is the binary code, which is what's running.
Jim LeeGUEST
53:13
When you get an EXE, when you download like a setup.exe off the internet or a setup.dmg for all you Mac users, what you're getting is you're getting a binary that's just ones and zeros.
Jim LeeGUEST
53:28
And it's very hard to make out how that was created.
Jim LeeGUEST
53:32
So when you're reading a PlayStation 5 game, the game is already compiled.
David TunstallGUEST
28:42
And it was like, we have other work to do.
Anthony CodispotiHOST
28:45
So you still internally use the EXE version or the SAS version or both? The
David TunstallGUEST
28:51
EXE version was what we used until we stopped working in that capacity with that client.
David TunstallGUEST
28:58
Okay.
David TunstallGUEST
28:58
So you don't even have the internal need for it anymore.
Eric SironHOST
41:11
It didn't really become like a powerhouse until like windows 95 NT four era, um, where they had a virtual machine is what they called it and where, when you run a program.
Eric SironHOST
41:24
An EXE, it had to be an EXE, the portable executable format, PE, you'll see sometimes.
Eric SironHOST
41:30
Windows would construct what would look like a full computer just for that program to run on all by itself.
Eric SironHOST
41:36
So it still does that today.

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