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Post by vanfanel on Mar 10, 2008 9:52:43 GMT -5
Hello there
I've tried PSX on a friend's X86 machine. We both run highly optimized Gentoo Linux as our main OS, but I run it on PowerPC. Since it seems PSX is fully C, it shouldn't be hard to release PowerPC binaries for Linux. Maybe just byteorder adjustements and inmediate sources compilation...and PSX would be running on PowerPC Linux in no time! we share the same libraries and OS level funtion with X86.
Thanks for reading my sugestion, and congratulations for souch a great piece of software!
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Post by patrickp on Mar 10, 2008 10:26:06 GMT -5
pSX Author has said that a friend of his is working on porting pSX to the Mac which, I guess, could lead to Linux PPC binaries. However, this was over a year ago and nothing more's been heard since so - who knows?
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Post by pSX Author on Mar 10, 2008 12:30:17 GMT -5
The problem with porting to PowerPC is that pSX uses a recompiler - retargetting that for another CPU architecture is a big job...
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Post by bulletxt on Mar 29, 2008 11:12:28 GMT -5
this is what happens when the software isn't open source anyways as of now, untill you release a windows and linux binaries, I actually don't know a single reason to open source your project (and anyways , it obvious that you decide to release only what you want!). just a question, is psx closed source for some special reason or is it simply because you don't want other people to fork the project and release another emu based on your code? I perfectly understand if this is the case!
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Post by patrickp on Mar 29, 2008 15:03:22 GMT -5
See the Known Requests thread linked at the top of every page in the forum, bulletxt. Please read the forum documentation before posting again.
pSX Author doesn't have to explain himself to anyone on this. The emulator is entirely his, and we have the good fortune to get the finest Playstation emulator around out of what he does.
I'm all in favour of open source software, but I don't feel that anyone should be forced to adopt open standards unless using software under a licence that requires them to: that would be as bad as not having open source at all.
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Post by bulletxt on Mar 29, 2008 21:55:09 GMT -5
patrickpI read the known request don't worry...I'm not a newby I was just curious to know the "real" reason to not adopt an open license. I did not say or ask to do such a thing and I also stated that the author can of course do whatever he wants! and I really love his work.. he is making me play final fantasy 9 on my pc without problems and should deserve a nobel if it were for me! I just posted to make a clean discussion... a normal talk! everyone here asks about features, bugs etc.. I just wanted to talk of other things that maybe 99% of users of here don't even care! sorry I really didn't want to be boring or even worse annoying! I also thought that maybe the author can be tired of posting and replying to people about bugs etc...so if he felt he could also talk of other things! this was my second post here, the first one was more than a year ago when I posted here with screenshots I made making psx work correctly with wine....and I was allready happy for that! sorry again...I really just wanted to do an open "talk" without pretending anything
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Post by patrickp on Mar 30, 2008 7:03:53 GMT -5
If pSX Author wanted a discussion on this he would have started it, bulletxt. It's his forum.
I don't think there's anyother than the obvious, but putting it that way makes it look like you think he has some sort of hidden agenda - I don't think there's any such thing. It's his baby and he wants to keep it that way; personally, I find suggestions he has a hidden agenda rather insulting.
And since he's made it quite clear he has no intention of open-sourcing pSX, and has shown no inclination to discuss the matter, I think that's an end to it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2008 8:54:30 GMT -5
I read somewhere, perhaps on some other forum, that the reason it's closed source is related to Author's day job.
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Post by bulletxt on Mar 30, 2008 17:14:17 GMT -5
thanks mika, I just wanted to know why the author has gone for a proprietary method. I did not suggest the author: "why don't you go open source?". It's like asking torvalds why did he choose years ago to adopt GPL2 for his kernel instead of XYZ license. but it seems I can't ask such questions here.. it was just a normal talk and no thinking of hidden agenda.... it's like asking paris hilton: "why did you die your hair blond instead of red" .
I'll stop here anyways as it seems such questions are disturbing someone.. sorry.
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Post by patrickp on Mar 31, 2008 10:24:03 GMT -5
No, bulletxt, it's not "like asking paris hilton: "why did you die your hair blond instead of red" ."
Paris Hilton is a celebrity who makes a great deal of money from being in the public eye. I think that such a person has expect press attention, personal questions etc. In fact, it's likely that among the reasons for doing something like that would be the intention to generate public attention.
pSX Author is a private individual who has provided us with an excellent (and improving) Playstation emulator, obviously has put in a great deal of time and probably expense on this, and doesn't make a penny out of it. He's stated before that he's not open sourcing pSX Emulator, doesn't seem much inclined to expand on this, and I think we should show him a little respect by not pestering him about it.
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Post by bulletxt on Mar 31, 2008 12:33:20 GMT -5
you continue not understanding that i'm not asking the author to go open source...do you understand??? I asked WHY did he choose this type of license instead of license A, B, C etc.
anyways it's ok, we seem to not understand each other. friends like before.
if the author is by chance reading this I just want to tell you keep up your work! perfection is not possible but it seems you are in the right way!
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Post by patrickp on Mar 31, 2008 17:52:17 GMT -5
I'm quite aware that you're not asking pSX Author to go open source, bulletxt - it's you who's persistently failing to understand what I'm saying.
He's had plenty of opportunity to make statements or start a discussion about his reasons for not going open source and he hasn't. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to deduce that he's not interested in talking about it. I can only repeat myself from my last post:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2008 19:01:00 GMT -5
I think you are both misunderstanding each other.
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