[uae] Re: Development frozen?

  • From: Hubert Maier <raziel_nosgoth@xxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:44:57 +0100

Hi Andrew,

>> > I wanted to ask if there is still life in further development of e-uae.
>> > Some time ago I asked for some bugfixes and feature requests.
>> 
>> I wanted to ask myself and second your question.

> Ok, I take it you guys haven't been reading the list.  A summary, then:

:blush:

Sorry :-/

>  - Richard Drummond, the main guy behind e-uae, has dissapeared.
>    Last message to this list/code update was 2007 or so.
>    Repeated attempts to see if he's ok have resulted in nothing.

The last thing i heard was that he moved to the States. Why he doesn't seem to
get on the net anymore is beyond me, though

>> Aswell as i would like to ask if someone would be able to do ports (or help
>> on those) to other strange platforms (like AmigaOS...ever heard of this?)
>> :-)

> I use that one, and yes, I'm working on it.

Heh :-)
Me too, AmigaOS4 on an A1XE here

>> I myself could do it, but being a complete noob i am certain to get into
>> troubles while building and those to fix i would be in need of help by more
>> advanced people

> If you're just PORTING, you basically have "it works" or "it doesn't" and
> then you supply patches to get it to work on your platform.  The biggest
> issues will be endian issues, but those are already somewhat addressed with
> the ppc osX/Linux builds.  Sort of.  Again, all current development is
> pre-alpha stage.

Understood

> - Finally - yes, there has been discussion of moving this stuff from the
>   e-uae specific mailing list t somewhere else.

>   From my perspective, it may be better to move the development to another
> list, and keep this list for 'use' questions - i.e. "How do I get my printer
> to work."  But this is fairly low traffic, so people SHOULD be able to weed
> out the dev messages vs the use case messages.

Thanks for the breakdown, very much appreciated

Ciao

Hubert
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