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Posted: Jan. 13 2004,19:43 QUOTE
Most of them are freeware, but if I'm not wrong there's some included which isn't. Wouldn't it be better to take them off ?

Btw, Tuxnes seems to occupy quite a lot of space. Wouldn't it be better to put gnuboy-x in the next release ? There are far more freely downloadable games for gameboy and the emulator itself takes less space, which could be employes for other stuff ;)

Just my 2 euro-cents ;)

For the free roms: http://www.pdroms.de/
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Posted: Jan. 13 2004,20:49 QUOTE
Tuxnes is actually quite small when compressed, about 85K.

Which games are not freeware?
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Posted: Jan. 14 2004,01:58 QUOTE
Maybe I'm wrong but bt.nes is actually Atari's Joust, copyrighted in 1983.

About the gameboy emulator, gbuboy-x, it's just 77k:

Package: gnuboy-x
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/games
Installed-Size: 232
Architecture: i386
Source: gnuboy
Version: 1.0.3-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
Filename: pool/contrib/g/gnuboy/gnuboy-x_1.0.3-1_i386.deb
Size: 79292

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Also, gameboy is a simpler machine to emulate, this resulting in even less powerful computers being able to launch its games. What do you think about that ?
I've also found a generic GUI, but it doesn't seem to be very updated. Maybe there's something better around, as for GUIs ;)
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Posted: Jan. 14 2004,02:56 QUOTE
fparri, I'll look into the bennefits and costs of the switch.

Regarding bt.nes, it has been released as BattleTank 2000 as a public domain game.
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Posted: Jan. 14 2004,13:58 QUOTE
Hi John, thanks a million :)
As for BattleThank 2000, it's just a hack of Joust, which is still copyrighted. The 'author' of BattleThank 2000 hacked one of the sprites of Joust and released it as 'public domain'. This isn't clearly possible ;)

Conclusione: Joust is not open-source. I know it's not big deal, but in a linux distribution it just seems out of place ;)
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