[Tuxnes-devel] What a great program (status)

[Mike M. <mel...@pc...>]

Hi team,
	So I was messing around with TuxNES this evening and I remembered,
once again, what a truly awesome program TuxNES is! Good work to everyone
involved.

	Now then, here are the most recent changes:
- sound is enabled by default: Since the sound support is basically
complete, I don't see any reason to force the user to turn it on. After
all, a real NES enables sound by default...:)
- since sound is on by default, I added a way to turn it off: Specify the
audio file as 'mute' or 'none', e.g., 'tuxnes --sound=mute ...' Some may
wonder why the -s option is still there-- just in case the user needs to
specify a different audio device than /dev/dsp
- there doesn't seem to be any actual code left for the old sine wave
generation, so I removed the last traces of the sine/square toggling 
options
- updated the status of the sound functionality in README
- updated the copyright date in emu.c to 1999-2001

	A few questions/notes:
- Paul, I noticed that there's no bass sound (i.e., triangle wave) in the
opening title of Zelda II
- Are we still supporting the echo/reverb option? It's commented out right
now from the CLI option list and the sound_config.reverb variable isn't
actually hooked up to any other code. Should we get rid of the remaining
code for the sake of good housekeeping or will the echo option be back?
- I think we should have a common header on top of all of the source
files. I propose something minimal like this:

/*
 * This file is part of the TuxNES project codebase.
 *
 * Please see the README and COPYING files for more information regarding
 * this project.
 *
 * $ID:$
 */

A more detailed description of a specific file's functionality can follow
in a separate comment after the primary header. If there are no
objections to this, I'm going to get started on this tomorrow. I'll make
an exception for unzip.* because the copyright notice kindly requests that
the header not be modfied.
- One last thing: Has anyone gotten a joystick to work under Linux
2.4? I'm having the worst time making a go of it...

	BTW, if anyone is trying the daily CVS snapshots, they haven't
actually been updated since I moved the site to Sourceforge. I thought I
should mention that before people try it and get confused.

-- 
	-Mike Melanson