Bug#95807: ITP: zsnes -- Free Super Nintendo emulator

2001-04-30 Thread Aaron Lehmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package zsnes, an SNES emulator. zsnes (http://www.zsnes.com) has a DOS heritage, but early this month the source code was released under the GPL and it was immediately ported to SDL. Once the Linux version is officially released (which should be in a m

Bug#95807: ITP: zsnes -- Free Super Nintendo emulator

2001-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:08:03AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > The zsnes package is not portable to non-i386 architectures because of > the fact that most of it is writen in i386 assembly. > > zsnes itself is available under the GNU GPL. However, almost all of the > "ROMs

Bug#95807: ITP: zsnes -- Free Super Nintendo emulator

2001-05-01 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> I will upload the package to main. Many have suggested that it will > need to go in contrib because Debian doesn't include SNES games. I > find this argument absurd, and could waste a lot of time fighting it, > but instead plan to bundle a small, free demo ROM in > /usr/share/doc/examples to work

Bug#95807: ITP: zsnes -- Free Super Nintendo emulator

2001-05-01 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:18:01PM -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > Requiring users to depend on proprietary data is not as bad as > requiring them to depend on proprietary programs. But it is still a > bad thing to do. There are free ROMS for SNES. Have you considered that SNES can be a fun arch