>I think the main problem is that there is no "official version" with new >development. >Look to MAME emulator - people who make ports just take the original version >and do the port. >This is not possible with SimCoupe, since there is no development, and the >sources are >not 100% portable.
There *is* development going on, but Simon has a policy of not releasing it until it's ready. Since neither the modified source nor the binaries are being distributed this is not a GPL violation. There's a lot of things in a program like SimCoupe which must necessarily be written in a fairly system-specific way if they are to be done well. I'd also like to voice my opinion that most of the people on this and other groups who go on about how easy it is to keep ongoing projects in sync over multiple platforms, have probably never actually tried it. > So if somebody wants the new version e.g. for Mac, he >must do much work. Heh, and don't I know it... I've said before that I'm very interested in porting the new SimCoupe to MacOS, but there are other projects I also want to do and I'm not exactly overwhelmed with free time. I also get the impression that only about 5 people would ever use SimCoupe on the Mac, so other things are likely to continue getting priority of my attention at least until there's a stable source release. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
