Bug#133843: ITP: spectrum-rom -- ZX Spectrum ROM
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:50:41AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > 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?
Due to the licence conditions, we certainly can't modify xzx to expect
the ROMs to be in multiple files; the licence permits us to compile and
run xzx, and that's about it. Fuse obviously is modifiable to do
this; the original 'decision' to have the ROMs in multiple files was
based purely on that's how I organise the ROMs for other
Spectrum-related stuff I do; it would be a pretty trivial patch to
expect the ROMs to be in one file.
At the moment, I'm not sure it's worth worrying about xzx that much
unless someone is going to get the package up to date: the version in
Debian is currently 2.9.0 (released May 1999), whereas the current
version is 4.0, with 4.1 due out soon.
Phil
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Philip Kendall <pak21@srcf.ucam.org>
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