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License: gpl
Other License:
Package: Gleam: Gnu Licensed Emulator of Arcade M
System name: gleam
Type: non-GNU
Description:
The GLEAM project intends to create a GPL-licensed emulator of arcade machines, which
would be comparable in functionality to the MAME arcade machine emulator
(http://www.mame.net), and run primarily on various Unices (Linux, predominantly, as
that is what we currently use). We intend to provide a truly free arcade machine
emulator (of course we do not plan to include any kind of illegal ROM code, nor links
thereto).
Our reason for starting this project is because we find MAME very useful for our
purposes, but we do not agree with their non-free licensing terms, and they appear to
have promised to return their code to GPL and then reneged on that promise. We will
take what code we are legally entitled to (as early versions of MAME up to 0.26.1 were
in fact GPLed), and clean-room implement anything we cannot utilize directly. As is
MAME, GLEAM will be written primarily in C, and possibly with partial ASM (gas or
nasm) sources.
Our ideal target system is a high-end Pentium 3/4-class PC running a distro of
Linux+GNU, but we hope to be compatible with other OSes as well.
Other Software Required:
We do not intend to use any non-free software dependencies. However we may need
dependencies such as Allegro or SDL which, although not necessarily part of a base
Free OS, are also free software.
Other Comments:
It is perhaps important to note that while non-free ROMS are required for most
games, we will not provide them. A small number (1 or 2) of games to be supported are
in the public domain.
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