On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:25:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I doubt anyone with a package in contrib wants to keep it there, no > matter what their position on non-free is. Permit me to correct your doubts. Package: xtrs Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: contrib/otherosfs Installed-Size: 1080 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Version: 4.9-3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.3.20021109-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.3-1), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), debconf (>= 0.5) Description: emulator for TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P computers xtrs is an X-based emulator for the Tandy/Radio Shack line of Zilog Z-80-based microcomputers popular in the late 1970's and early 1980's. It features cassette, floppy, and hard drive emulation, timer interrupt emulation, file import and export from the host operating system, support for most of the undocumented Z-80 instructions, and a built-in debugger. Real floppy drives can be used, and, if an OSS-compatible sound driver is available, application-based sound can be played and real cassettes read and written directly through the sound card or via WAVE files. Several hi-res graphics cards are emulated and, in Model 4/4P mode, mice are supported. There is also real-time clock, sound card, serial port, joystick, and CPU clock speedup emulation. . xtrs requires ROM images from the original machines. The ROMs are copyrighted by Radio Shack and are not freely licensed. (Exception: in Model 4P mode, a freely licensed boot ROM included with this package can be used to boot a Model 4 operating system from a diskette image.) Instructions are provided for retrieval of TRS-80 ROM images by those who may legally use them. I'm perfectly content for this package to remain in contrib. It's not very useful as a standalone work, so it is inappropriate for main (though its Z-80 emulation code has been known to migrate to other software projects). If the Debian Project should decide that it can no longer provide a home for this software, it's no skin off my ass. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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