NVeeMESS For Games On Zaurus, iPaq

LordDavon writes "If you are lucky enough to own a Sharp Zaurus or a Compaq iPaq running QPE/OPIE, then nvmax.com has a nice present for you. We have released version 0.011 of NVeeMESS. This is a port of MESS, the Multi Emulator Super System for Linux based portable devices. This is also the first port of MESS to run in the Zaurus native environment. This is a very early alpha, but I have tested GameBoy, NES, C64, Genesis and a few others."

What is with slashdot these days?

[eclectric]

This is twice in two days that they've posted stories about illegal software, first posting links to downloadable doom3 alphas, and now one about console game emulators.

Oh wait, I forgot, those aren't illegal. Just like rolling papers aren't illegal. when was the last time you saw someone rolling their own cigarette? And when was the last time you saw someone playing a homebrew game on an emulator?

Re:What is with slashdot these days?

[perlyking]

Just like rolling papers aren't illegal. when was the last time you saw someone rolling their own cigarette?

They aren't illegal, perhaps they are in some backward dictatorship but they aren't here :-)

Probably a week since I saw someone roll a ciggy, its not uncommon.

Re:What is with slashdot these days?

[damu]

I saw someone get hit by a car last week, I guess its time to make cars illegal. Your logic makes no sense, what you do with your time, in the privacy of your home is your business. Your decision to use technology for illegal purposes is your perogotive, but for every illegal use of a product there are 1000 legal and legitimate uses. The possibilities are there, slashdot is about the free trade of information, it is only the means, not the way.

dam(u)

Re:What is with slashdot these days?

[JohnFluxx]

In the UK, cigarettes are very expensive (huge tax on them), and most of the poorer people here roll their own cigerattes. (From what I've seen)

gbadev.org

[yerricde]

And when was the last time you saw someone playing a homebrew game on an emulator?

Yesterday, I was working on my Tetris clone for the NES. When I release the first public milestone, it will be the first Tetris clone on the NES licensed as free software.

My name is Damian Yerrick, and I'm a homebrew console game developer.

NES [pineight.com] | GBA [pineight.com]

Dear Troll...

[metamatic]

I own two Atari STs and a couple of crates of commercial software I paid for. If I want to play the software on an emulator, seems perfectly legal to me.

Re:What is with slashdot these days?

[Flagbrew]

I see in the neighborhood of 50 cigarettes rolled per day. But then again I work in a brewery/bar 10 hours a day.

Re:What is with slashdot these days?

[Corbin Dallas]

when was the last time you saw someone rolling their own cigarette?

Last week. I have a friend and an Aunt who both roll thier own. My friend tells me he can roll about a carton of cigarettes for $9 ( that's tobacco, papers, and filters ), where buying a carton of national brand is about $35.

But more to the point, just because emulators CAN be used for illegal purposes dosen't mean they will be. By your estimation, WinAMP is evil because most people don't play thier own music. Where do we draw the line? Rolling Papers? Guns? Cars? ( Yes, you can use a car to commit many crimes. ) Knives? Baseball Bats? Pens? ( TONS of crimes are commited with a pen. )

The point is that you can't draw a line anywhere. If you can do one LEGAL thing with it, then it should be legal. And last I checked, there are legal purposes for emulators.

Become one with the source.

Re:What is with slashdot these days?

[Dyrandia]

Last time I saw someone rolling a cigarette, it was me, last week, before my flight from England to Chicago. In England, the cost of machine rolled cigarettes is at least double the cost of them in the US. That's gotta be saying something, considering I just bought a pack of machine rolled cigarettes in Milwaukee for $4.50 a pack! I can save buckets of cash by buying rolling tobacco and rolling my own.

Last time I played a homebrew game on an emulator? Last week. My fiance has been working on a homebrew game to run on a friend's Amiga Emulator for the Xbox.

Just because *you* aren't doing something doesn't mean its not being done.

Re:What is with slashdot these days?

[ProfessorPuke]

For any major game cartridge, there are millions and millions of people with a license to play it: every one of the original customers. And its these people, drawn by nostalgia, who will most enjoy playing the emulated version (rather than trying to repair their clunky old 8-bit Nintendo hardware)

Software publishers want to have it both ways: you're not buying a copy of the game, but a license to it, which they can restrict in arbitrary ways. And yet they desire the licenses to be bound to the physical hardware, so that they can re-release the same software for newer, smaller platforms every decade.

OZ

[Samus]

It must be an oz only thing. It fails on my Z with the stock sharp rom because it tries to write to /root which is a read only file system.