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Re: MAME is now Free and Open Source Software

Posted on 2016-03-04, 16:33

in Milliways
Uh, what was the previous license? "The MAME License" was previously a custom license based on the BSD-3-Clause license with additional terms prohibiting commercial use, distribution alongside unauthorised ROM images, and certain kinds of derivative builds. This caused it to fall afoul of OSI and …

Re: MAME is now Free and Open Source Software

Posted on 2016-03-04, 15:40

in Milliways
Guys, ya don't wanna know what a slog this was. We MAY do a write-up at some point but if you want some idea of what this was like, read the following (which was from GPL to LGPL): http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/How-to-properly-relicense-a-large-open-source-project http://www.jbkempf.com/blog …

MAME is now Free and Open Source Software

Posted on 2016-03-04, 15:34

in Milliways
http://mamedev.org/?p=422 After 19 years, MAME is now available under an OSI-compliant and FSF-approved license! Many thanks to all of the contributors who helped this to go as smoothly as possible! We have spent the last 10 months trying to contact all people that contributed to MAME as developers …

Re: How difficult is it to write an emulator?

Posted on 2016-03-01, 20:28

SarahWalker wrote: Stiletto wrote: Why not, Sarah? 😀 Because I've never used it? Nothing more sinister than that. I was merely commenting on SoftPCMuseum_'s insistence that this _must_ be a CPU bug, and pointing out that it's entirely possible it isn't. Alright, no problem! 😀

Re: How difficult is it to write an emulator?

Posted on 2016-03-01, 10:47

SarahWalker wrote: While I don't want to comment on MESS's CPU emulation Why not, Sarah? 😀 FWIW if it's licensing, the i86/386 CPU cores are effectively dual-licensed MAME license and BSD "3 Clause" license right now, just waiting for all our ducks in a row to remove the MAME license. 😀

Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2016-03-01, 10:12

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I saw that too. Why on earth would a spammer post something about the latest Batman movie, in the VOGONS forum, in Russian? What gain does he expect to have from it? And what kind of blockhead does he think would click on that, anyway? A bit hard to understand... :-S What makes you think the …

Re: Horrible box art

Posted on 2016-02-26, 05:03

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Very interesting, considering this is an Apple product? I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Apple Mockingboard. It was the first high-end soundcard I ever owned, and it brought the Apple IIe alive! Have a look at it's box art and tell me if you see any similarities. ;) Mockingboard- …

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