Post by nembutal on Dec 3, 2007 14:29:37 GMT -5
Hello <author of pSX>, <forum people> and everbody else I forgot 
This is my first post, so have mercy.
It's kind of directed to the author of pSX.
Since I'm an emulator programmer myself (not such a successful, after all), but working on some Z80-related things (Game Boy), I wonder, why your emulator is not open source.
My projects are open source and I use versioning systems (Subversion) to keep track of it and let other people let have track of it, too.
To program an emulator, one has to start to read a lot of source, documentation, tech. papers and every piece of information you can find on the net and in books about the machine of your choice.
I did benefit a lot from source code of other people's projects, like gnuboy and some other emulators. Especially the Playstation and its components really interest me and I find it sad, that you don't open your source.
Do you plan it?
People could write components. Your emulator is highly compatible already, which amazes me! This could be a mental breakthrough for a lot of us developers who have problems writing code and understanding basics of emulation.
I really appreciate your project, after all, I'm a player and I love to play my old games again in Linux.
So, please answer me about this, I'd really like to hear about you and maybe even support you & your project!
Greetings,
Michael
P.s. My projects is up on developer.berlios.de/projects/pgbe/
Right now, the repository is kind of a mess and the emulator isn't too far, so you might not be interested at all. But it kind of loads ROMs and does some basic initialization.
This is my first post, so have mercy.
It's kind of directed to the author of pSX.
Since I'm an emulator programmer myself (not such a successful, after all), but working on some Z80-related things (Game Boy), I wonder, why your emulator is not open source.
My projects are open source and I use versioning systems (Subversion) to keep track of it and let other people let have track of it, too.
To program an emulator, one has to start to read a lot of source, documentation, tech. papers and every piece of information you can find on the net and in books about the machine of your choice.
I did benefit a lot from source code of other people's projects, like gnuboy and some other emulators. Especially the Playstation and its components really interest me and I find it sad, that you don't open your source.
Do you plan it?
People could write components. Your emulator is highly compatible already, which amazes me! This could be a mental breakthrough for a lot of us developers who have problems writing code and understanding basics of emulation.
I really appreciate your project, after all, I'm a player and I love to play my old games again in Linux.
So, please answer me about this, I'd really like to hear about you and maybe even support you & your project!
Greetings,
Michael
P.s. My projects is up on developer.berlios.de/projects/pgbe/
Right now, the repository is kind of a mess and the emulator isn't too far, so you might not be interested at all. But it kind of loads ROMs and does some basic initialization.
