Bug#133843: ITP: spectrum-rom -- ZX Spectrum ROM
[Note, 133843@bugs isn't sent to the submitter - I happened to notice
this through the web interface, though.]
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:12:42PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Colin Watson may or may not have written...
> > I have been informed that the Spectrum ROM currently distributed as
> > part of the spectemu package is non-free (it can't be sold, and it
> > can't be embedded in hardware), although Amstrad have no objections
> > at all to it being distributed. I intend to package it separately,
> > remove it from spectemu, and move spectemu into contrib.
>
> It'd be useful if you also include ROM images for the ZX Spectrum 128,
> +2 and +3 in this package. (For the +3, the v4.0 ROM is sufficient.)
OK, I'll include those too.
> However, various emulators have different ideas about whether the ROM
> sets for these machines should be stored as one file per page or one
> file per machine; fuse (unofficially packaged; see .sig) does the
> former, and xzx does the latter. Both could usefully depend on
> spectrum-rom.
Phil, what would you recommend? Can either emulator be made to behave
the other way, or will the package have to include both?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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