From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, 40033-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40033: Add "Vice" commodore emulator
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:30:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86czht10np.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhcer89e.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Lemmer Webber's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:17:33 -0400")
Hi,
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 17:17, Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>> You mean it ships the ROM as a pre-built proprietary binary?
>> That wouldn’t be OK. :-/
>
> Yes, they are the original binary ROMs shipped on the C64.
>
> The funny thing is it's in the data/ directory. Lispers love to say
> that "code and data and data is code"; in this case, at least data/ has
> object code. ;)
>
> I agree that it isn't acceptable for Guix.
Therefore, it is tempting to close it. :-)
>>> - One solution is coming out of the Mega65 project (a damn cool project
>>> in general):
>>> https://github.com/MEGA65/open-roms
>>
>> Do you know if that could actually work? That would be perfect.
>
> I think they don't work perfectly, but can work for some things. It
> would be nice to support it.
>
> I don't have time, but I invite someone else to give a try at building
> the mega65 open-roms package and linking it in. So I may have to leave
> this at a "passing this along to a future community member" stage of
> packaging.
>
> If someone else can try packaging the mega65 ROMs (honestly don't know
> how hard it is to do), I can at least help playtest. It would be really
> good for computing history purposes to free one of the blobs holding us
> back from exploring past computing systems!
Well, after more than 2 years without any interaction, I am not
convinced it is worth to keep this open. Therefore, I am closing.
If I miss a point and you think it is worth to keep it open for
«"passing this along to a future community member" stage of packaging»,
feel free to reopen.
Cheers,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-07 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-12 2:18 [bug#40033] Add "Vice" commodore emulator Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-03-12 2:20 ` [bug#40033] Vice emulator, now with patch Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-03-16 21:55 ` [bug#40033] Add "Vice" commodore emulator Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-17 21:17 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2022-04-07 13:30 ` zimoun [this message]
2022-04-07 17:44 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
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