Subject: Re: Aw: Re: [stella] The future of Stella (i.e. debugger needed) From: "Joseph Thompson" <jrt1@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 09:05:32 -0500 |
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Anthony" <stephena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Aw: Re: [stella] The future of Stella (i.e. debugger needed) > On May 22, 2004 05:32 am, John Saeger wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 20:02, Glenn Saunders wrote: > > > Brad probably isn't in a position to release some of this code back > > > into the Stella distribution, although he can probably give hints on > > > how to approach them. > > > > Why wouldn't he be in a position to release it Glenn? You see, here is > > the rub. For the closed source versions of Stella to be legal, a > > completely original implementation of Tia sound must exist. But I'll > > never know if it's really original if I never get to see it. > > Why would that be true? First of all, Stella was never closed source per > se. You could see the code. It just wasn't GPL, which means that > changes couldn't be re-released. The last version of Stella that was > this way was version 1.1. In that version, Stella generated sound by > means of an external sound server application. That sound server > application *was* GPLed. In fact, that's why the sound code *was* > external; because a GPLed piece of code couldn't be integrated into a > non-GPLed codebase. Once the whole codebase was GPLed for version 1.2, > we began the task of reintegrating the sound code into the core. That > work continues to this day. I believe he's referring to the commercial code used in Activision Anthology, which would have to be completely original . . . But if you're talking the console versions, they're almost certainly written in native assembly (ARM for the GBA and whatever the PS1 uses), so would they be of use? > > Steve > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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