I remember Magic B pointing out this to me a year ago or so, it is indeed a
problem, I love snes and I love a couple of emulators that are free software
and work great, but the games themselves are all proprietary. It is very sad
not being able to play Donkey Kong Country in clear
"Surely those 'ROMs' can be released under the GPL by their respective
artists"
I don't mean colloquial usage of the term "ROM" used by the community but the
actual ROM; inside the computer that contained the software that lets it do
things like this:
To be fair, there is a robust demoscene community for both the C64 and
Vic-20. Surely those “ROMs” can be released under the GPL by their
respective artists? I understand your argument for VICE. Brandy, however, I
believe deserves a chance. It is a great education software given the
VICE needs a ROM from one of the machines to work. These are non-free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VICE
Vice is licensed under the GPLv2.
Brandy is also licensed under the GPL.
https://github.com/peterhellberg/brandy
I wonder if there are any Free programs to run on them or if they're just a
way to run proprietary software?
I second this request. I think we should start a massive list will
alphabetically sorted apps to add.
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Two great emulators that should be added to the Trisquel package list:
vice: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vice
brandy: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/brandy.1.html
Vice is an emulator of various Commodore systems (C64, Vic-20, etc.)
Brandy emulates the BBC Micro. This is
