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A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
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Steve Nickolas <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License:
Package: Gleam Liberated Emulator of Arcade Machi
System name: gleam
Type: non-GNU
Description:
The GLEAM (Gleam Liberated Emulator of Arcade Machines) 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:
Other Comments:
We are not a "game" emulator but a "machine" emulator. It is possible with the
help of cross-assemblers/cross-compilers (possibly even gcc, in the case of the
680x0 which was commonly used in arcade machines) a program like GLEAM to
implement a new game on existing hardware.
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