Re: [Tuxnes-devel] Releasing v0.75 (not yet)

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

Hi Asmodai,
	I definitely like the idea of pushing this next version of TuxNES
to v1.0. Since the graphics look good, as they always have, and the sound
certainly rocks, I feel this thing does qualify as a one-point-oh
release. Recently, I've been sitting down and playing through some of my
old favorite games on TuxNES from start to finish using my Gravis Gamepad
and it's honestly difficult to tell the difference from a real NES. This
is great since my NES, which turned 12 years old a few weeks ago, is
having trouble staying alive.

	To respond to some of your points:

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:

> I'm coming near...  I got sidetracked by cleaning up stuff along the
> way [the way is long indeed].  Side effect: NetBSD compilation support.
> :)

	Great to hear...so we can add NetBSD/x86 to the features list
soon?

> >Hopefully, it will be enough time for Scott to update GTuxNES for a
> >simultaneous release.
> 
> Hah, he should have had lots of time now. :)

	Be that as it may, I was still going to have a look at it
soon. I wanted to try and figure out some nice interface option for
joystick remapping. Now that I got my Gravis Gamepad Pro working in full
10-button mode, I suddenly see the need for joystick remapping. GTuxNES
could help the user with this.

> >- go through all of the options and see which ones still exist and
> >work; clean out the others
> 
> Does this also mean to remove dead code?  Currently I #if 0'd them out,
> but if we don't need that code anymore we can schedule that for removal
> in the next version [which I hope will be dubbed 1.0 :)].

	Indeed, by all means, get rid of the dead code, and any dead
options.

> Btw, anyone interested in a gameboy emulator project on the side? :)
> I've yet to find any decent gameboy emulator on Unix, and since we have
> a nice team together already.

	I would encourage you to check out Gnuboy:
  http://www.starfox.org/gnuboy/
I've tried it out and it works great for the games I've played. Note that
I really don't know much about the Gameboy, but this emulator appeared to
work all right. And as the name implies, it's GNU-licensed. I'm sure they
would appreciate your help in porting it to BSD. In fact, Gnuboy was my
inspiration for adding the HACKING file to the CVS tree. Check out their
file of the same name for a thorough architecture description.

> And after that we might try SNES... :)  [wishful thinking mayhaps, but I
> don't like the way snes9x has been going.]

	Just out of curiousity, what don't you like about Snes9x? It's
been a long time since I've used it, but I seem to remember that it worked
great when I did use it.

-- 
	-Mike Melanson