|
|Somehow I think, that maybe I'm only one, but I really don't like a
|picture of future, where everybody is only looking pictures about funny
|looking MSX computers in PC screen and trying emulators and laugh.
Why not.. Be hounest. At this moment we are looking at pictures of the 70's
and 80's, laughing at the clothes they wore in that time, The stereo's they
had at that time, the cars people drove. You must realise that an
MSX-computer os also only a small thing in history. It's a nice thing, so
it's good people preserve it. But still.. That MSX on your desk, does not
have eternal life ! Also not technically. In the future it will break down !
but there is plenty of more emulator users, that do not
|do anything else, that asks 10 times "How to load .BAS files... I
|forgotted" or "I downloaded SD-snatcher, but I can't get it to work. Can
|somebody help me ?"
True.. And 10, 15 years ago, you were asking the same questions. What's
wrong with people getting back into the MSX scene. If there are no new
people coming to the MSX-world, MSX will die anyway ! Let's welcome these
new users. One day they might even get interested in buying your game !
|
|Emulators have also made a plenty of new MSX file standards, that are not
|very usefull for real users. Like .ROM/.CAS/.TAP/.IMG (Yes I know,
|that there are quite a good loaders now for most of them.) I think, that
|it would be much easyer for MSX users, if all of these games would be just
|packed and cracked files. Not so much questions and answers and only a bit
|more work.
|
What's the problem. .ROM files even have extra benifets on a real MSX. No
more figuring out what to do with poke -1,170 or poke -1,255. Everything in
one file (Makes the dir nicer to look at)... I think you better see this as
a new development for MSX. Call it a next stage..
|Anyway... I don't have anything more against emulators, but I'm not ever
|going to support them by some special way, because that is not my job. (I
|almoust died, when I saw a message "press F10 to exit to MS-Dos" I don't
|remember where) If I think, that makeing a copy protection will help me to
|sell some games for MSX users, then I make copy protection. (Anyway... I
|don't)
Don't understand me wrong. You are writing for MSX, *NOT* for an emulator.
If you have programmed in a normal way, and it doesn't work on an emulator,
it's not your fault, and you don't have to do anything to solve that
problem. That's a problem for the emulator writer. What I mean is that some
people even want to make a protection on that game that it will not run on
an emulator, or create a copy protection that will make in impossible to run
the game on an emulator. There is nothing wrong with a copy protection
though. But if you create a game now, please realize that you MSX will
eventually break down, and than you'll only have an emulator left !
|
|So what did we learn ??? ......... nothing !
|
it's not about learning... But it's about accepting that some people still
want to use your programs in the future...
Go visit the MSX Emulator Page (M.E.P.)
http://surf.to/msxemu
http://www.casema.net/~tfh
ICQ:12222446
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