On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 20:06, Stephen Anthony wrote:
> I don't understand what this has to do with anything. Look, maybe we
> started out on the wrong foot or something, so I want to set straight
> any problems before they start.
There's no problem. It's not like I'm trying to be rude or anything.
Of course, I don't exactly have to try for it to happen. ;-)
> I was talking about porting very specific parts of the TIA sound code to
> Stella. Since the relevant code in both emulators is based on Ron
> Fries original code, and the stuff is under GPL, I thought that was
> acceptable.
z26 is GPL. We went GPL before PCAE did and before Stella did. So
yeah, help yourself. Even John Dullea helped himself to our sound code.
> I have the sound code working quite well in Stella for Linux, but the
> Windows Stella port (same code) is somewhat lacking. You have the
> sound code working quite well in z26 for Windows, but the same code is
> somewhat lacking in z26 for Linux. I don't think it takes a rocket
> scientist to see what I'm getting at here. Obviously, you, Eckhard, or
> someone else figured out some 'magic' to get sound working correctly in
> z26, and I was trying to port *that* so that Stella for Windows sounded
> better. I (or more appropriately, Brad Mott) have the sound code
> working better in Linux, so you might possibly be interested in that.
Maybe. But for the time being that's up to Bryan. It's been a long
time since I've looked at Stella. I think I've got something called
Stella 96 (0.2). A Bradford W. Mott production in association with
Seunghee Lee. Do you know where I can get version 0.1? That would be
cool. The earliest versions are sometimes the most interesting.
> As for the KStella issue, you may not have realized, but I was actually
> offering to integrate z26 functionality into KStella, and I would
> maintain the code myself. Now if someone wants to take KStella, rename
> it, and change it to use z26 instead, then more power to them. I'll
> answer any questions they may have. But whatever anyone thinks, having
> two emulator frontends that do exactly the same thing and are based on
> exactly the same code is a huge waste of resources. If someone wants
> to do it, fine. Now specifically about the name; I didn't create
> KStella, I only added many features and currently maintain it. It's
> approaching a 1.0 release, and I wouldn't change the name for the sake
> of adding a new feature. That's all I meant.
Fair enough.
> Again, I sense from some people that there is animosity. I want to make
> clear that I don't care what other people do. If they need my help,
> I'll gladly give it. If not, I'll step aside and let them do their own
> thing. And that applies to both Stella and KStella.
Animosity? Nah.
John
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