'M. J. Bethlehem' wrote about 'Re: Open letter to person calling himself Takamichi' -
Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:23:46AM CEST
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Daniel Jorge Caetano wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:17:27 +0900, Takamichi Suzukawa wrote:
Hi,
ASCII did not think they needed to negotiate Marat. He never noticed if no
one told him.
For your notice, Japanese MSX peers did not regard this as illegal, but
they were more offended by the fact ASCII did not develop by their own.
I did not like the fMSX solution (because fMSX is really crappy), but
I agree with ASCII in starting their based on something that is on the
market. I do not think re-invent the wheel will help at all.
Why is fMSX crappy? It's the #1 UNIX MSX emulator. I've successfully used
it for years. I recently installed it on my DEC Alpha Worksation XL-266
(running a customized Red Hat Linux, 2.2.18 kernel) and it runs all my
games perfectly. The sound is as perfect as can be with a lowly SB-16.
Hi.
Have you ever looked at fMSX's code?
And do you know by what crappy license fMSX is released?
I use MESS for my msx emulation, and granted, the MSX2 emulation
is still in the works, but at least it's proper code and everyone
can contribute to it.
Also MESS runs fullscreen, and I easily hacked in some code
to take lots of screenshots which I know use to make nice
animations for my website. ( http://w3.qahwah.net/joost )
Eventually I or a friend might make that feature a bit
decent and prolly submit it back so everyone has it.
( For those who've never heard about opensource and free
sofware principles:
http://www.opensource.org
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
they are getting very important these days! )
With fMSX Marat alone is in full control of the quality/features
of his program. With an opensource emulator every programmer is.
E.g. I was using fMSX, and noticed the extremely ugly commandline
handling. I thought: hey, thats something I can fix. Soo I went
and looked for the licence. I notice it itsn't opensource, soo
I didn't make the change.
I know I know, some will say: I don't care about licenses, but a
properly free (free as in freedom, not free as in free beer as it
is now) MSX emulator is for the best of all.
Joost
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