Re: [fuse-emulator-devel] Help required (non-technical)

[Philip K. <ph...@sh...>]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 01:12:21PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> 
> Just wondering, when this ROM is released (which is probably going
> to be soon, only 5 more donations are needed) and supposing it works
> reasonably well, is there any plan from the Fuse team to ship it or
> add some kind of official support for it?

Plans: definitely. Timescales: no, for the recently announced reason :-)

> This ROM would allow me to move the Fuse package to the 'main' section
> of Debian, but I wonder how to handle the case when both this and the
> original Spectrum ROM are installed.

The problem I see there is that users who installed Fuse in Debian would
get only 48K functionality, as all the other machines would need ROMs
from the non-free ROMs collection. This probably fits into the work we
need to do to handle missing ROMs better anyway since we stopped
shipping some of the other ROMs.

> I guess the easiest solution would be to use the original ROM if
> available, and use the GPLed one as a fallback.

That sounds sensible to me.

Cheers,

Phil

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