Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:19:50 -0400
Joshua Gay <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yet another reason it might be useful for a purpose to run such
> systems and programs is to be able to extract or export data or
> artwork. For example, a person might have some old software and data
> files that they would like to convert to a format that works with
> free software. It might be that the only practical or feasible way to
> do this would be to run the data file in the old program and then
> convert/export the data file into a format that can then be used by
> free software programs. Or alternatively the software itself may have
> art or data files embedded in it that could be extracted by running
> it on the original system via the emulator. If the aim is to move
> data or art from the nonfree program/system to a free program, then
> that is probably a good thing.
Reverse engineering might be a better approach.
However, in that case, I'm not sure it's always going to be worth the
time spent on it.

An example of such approach:
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20110326-parsing_dos_word_files_for_gsm_map/

Denis.

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