At least for QEMU (tested 6 months ago) I know it doesn't need those
non-free software (be it BIOS or not).
For the rest, it's been 3 years since I last checked, but I remember
that most of those provide a default "simulation of a BIOS". But not the
actual non-free BIOS.
Free/libre software can
I've only ever used QEMU and Wine, and only with the vaguest idea of how they
work at that, but I suspect there are good reasons to believe no proprietary
software would be required.
Wine, standing for Wine Is Not an Emulator, isn't an emulator per se- it's a
compatibility layer. As such,
Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
Please note that, as far asI can tell, RetroArch is free/libre software,
just like QEMU, DOSBox, mupen64plus, Higan, ScummVM, DeSmuME,
Wine.
It's my understanding that some emulators require a BIOS blob to be
functional. And some BIOSes are non-free. I'm not
The emulators are libre, and you know nothing of which programs I am going to
run in them.
Please note that, as far asI can tell, RetroArch is free/libre software,
just like QEMU, DOSBox, mupen64plus, Higan, ScummVM, DeSmuME,
Wine. However, you are right in the fact that the games played on those
are *mostly* non-free (except for a few known games like Flight of the
Amazon Queen, Escape
I am glad you solved your problem.
Even though is an emulator, it still is proprietary software.
The immoral problem of proprietary software is not that it has malevolent
features, but that it doesn't respect your freedom, which is a malevolent
feature from my point of view.
So even if
It still won't run the N64 emulator, but it looks pretty.
https://lut.im/KTrCVxYqSk/YlsO8z9XtgA4e6Xy.png
I did this:
Online Updater > Core Updater > mupen64plus_libretro.so.zip
Thumbnails Updater >
Sony - PlayStation 3 (Downloadable).zip
Why does retroarch have black rectangles where icons should be, and missing
paths to fonts?
Why does the file browser not detect z64 files?
Hardware: ThinkPad X200
Firmware: Libreboot 20160907 UK Dvorak video
OS: Trisquel 7
Commands in shell: http://paste.debian.net/976051/
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