Re: [Tuxnes-devel] SDL audio player

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

On Fri, 3 May 2002, W. Michael Petullo wrote:

> Nofrendo seems pretty nice -- I hadn't heard of that project.  At first
> look, it appears quite portable.  It now seems to me that there are a
> lot of competing NES emulators which are very similar.  Could someone
> explain the reason for this?  Perhaps you could start with why TuxNES
> forked from its parent project.  Jim, why did you port the nofrendo engine
> to TuxNES instead of just modifying nofrendo to run on the Dreamcast?

	I can't fill you in on Jim's motivations, but I can tell you how
TuxNES got its start. I needed an NES emulator that ran under Linux and
could capture screenshots during gameplay. No available emulators fit the
bill. But Nestra was opensource and easily modified for the task. I added
a few more features and tried to roll them back into the main tree. But I
feared that the Nestra maintainer no longer existed on the internet (I
learned later that I was wrong) and so I forked a new project. That was
almost 3 years ago.

	One direction I had wanted to take TuxNES was to make a better,
smarter dyn-rec core that would be easier to port to other platforms. But
I never could get deep into that research.

	As for why Jim did not port nofrendo, I don't believe the nofrendo
source was generally available Jim began his effort.

--
	-Mike Melanson