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owleyed · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Jul 2013 Posts: 9

Tumblr posted photos of contents: http://discover.blackhollowproject.com/post/56208537603/familiarity

**Posted:** Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:54 pm

MrToasty

Already looking for M-209 simulators...
http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/m209sim.htm
haven't tried yet

**Posted:** Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:57 pm

Tenshi Akui

Yeesh watch one movie and miss a bunch of stuff Razz

Ok digging into the box continence now.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:00 am

Tenshi Akui

Played a round with the simulator a bit and it's a lot more complicated then my brain can manage right now (sleep is calling).

However for anyone who wishes to play around with it right now I did find the original army training film for the m-209.

http://www.ilord.com/m209-training.html

I'll play with it some more in the morning, but must say that the historical accuracy of this is making me grin from ear to ear.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:38 am

MrToasty

Wow, setting up that machine is a pain. Now to see if we actually use it or something else.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:39 am

Greystone · Unfettered Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 373

A CLUE! Who?

Look at the blueprints. We are dealing with a "Tartarus Mark I"
http://discover.blackhollowproject.com/post/56208537603/familiarity

**Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:30 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Whose biological father may have been a guitar amp.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:12 pm

Tenshi Akui

So I've been playing with the m-209 emulator and watched the videos on how it works and I kinda have it. The only part that I'm not getting is how to set the pins according to the key list. Sadly the instruction manuals are not as helpful as I would hope.

Edit because after messing around for the last two hours I've got it.

Any messages in m-209 I'll be able to decipher. Actually quite an ingenious machine lots of little parts that all together set the machine. Also figured out how to read the pins and keys and all.

So now we see if we can find a message I can use it on.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:57 pm

sinewave89

**Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:21 am

MrToasty

**Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:35 am

Tenshi Akui

As far as I can tell it's the external message indicator that you need to decode the internal message indicator just to be able to decode the message. Yeah it's not an easy process.

Basically to explain it a bit better all m-209 cyphers have a few things in common. First is the double letter (normally at the beginning) this tells you what letter was used to get the internal message indicator. The second part is the six letter external message indicator, then the key indicator.

So for example for those who care Wink

SSTVA USBXR XXXXXXXX

The SS states that when it was encoded the letter S was used 12 times to get the internal message indicator. the TVA USB are the random 6 letters the encoder used to create the internal message indicator The XR Is the Key List Indicator telling the decoder what Keylist to use to set the pins and bolts in order to decode properly. Then the XXXX would be the coded message.

edit: to fix the explanation.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:20 am

Tenshi Akui

We've Got a code!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/dffefc13c797f42f20230ebbabb654dd/tumblr_mqfvzrAetf1sqc616o1_500.png

It's going to take me a bit to set up the machine but I'll get the decipher asap.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:02 am

Tenshi Akui

Ok decoded

**Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:27 am

MrToasty

Tenshi Akui

**Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:59 am