GPL MAME exists

[sublime]

is anyone up for compiling an emulator simular to pacbox, but that emulates the sound? and mabey could run 6 or 7 other roms? like frogger galaga donkey kong dig dug? well my idea initially would be to somehow alter the pacbox plugin by inserting a menu option such as ..select rom..kind of like the doom plugin does. the doom plugin emulates sound so im guessing in theory, pacbox could too as well as 5 or 6 other roms. so wouldnt that mean while writing the subroutine of ..select rom. there would have to be something that looks for
FROGGER.606
FROGGER.607
FROGGER.608 609 610
FROGGER.DSW
FROGGER.HI
ect ect?

[markun]

is anyone up for compiling an emulator simular to pacbox, but that emulates the sound?

You mean a plugin that just plays the music of the game?

Also, maybe you can come up with a more specific subject for this thread.

[zombieplasticclock]

I dunno... That would be pretty sweet, even though I can't figure out Pacbox in the first place...

It's still a cool idea. Are you working on it? 'cause if you have a demo, I could test if it works on my ipod video.

[Llorean]

Do you have any idea what is involved in doing something like that? Pacbox was an existing Pacman emulator, which is how it ended up ported. To do what you suggested would require finding several existing arcade emulators with GPL compatible licenses.

Doom works because all the different Dooms are in the end the same game. The Gameboy emulator works because they're all the same hardware. For Arcade it becomes vastly more complicated depending on the hardware of each arcade cabinet, plus we don't write the emulators from scratch.

And lastly THESE FORUMS ARE NOT THE RIGHT PLACE FOR FEATURE REQUESTS.

[sublime]

HMMMMM!! i see the light! i actually would try it if i could be guided in the right direction.  mabey i can find a gpl emulator and get it to do what i want?

[sublime]

oh yeah..oops sorry i posted in the wrong place sorry Llorean!  even when im NOT trying to irk you, i do so ill be mre careful in the future

[sublime]

in fact heres a link to GPL mame (which i was told didnt exist lol)
http://www.mamedev.org/tools/#hard

[sublime]

http://www.mamedev.org/tools/#hard

[Febs]

It wasn't necessary to start a new thread on this.  I've merged it with the existing thread.

[sublime]

hmmm, someones allready done it!:( http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/08/ipodmame-brings-pac-man-to-the-ipod/ just not sure who how and when, the site isnt clear really but the screen shot proves it.

[sublime]

this might help, its all the mkfiles
http://opensvn.csie.org/ipodmame/

[Llorean]

The MAME license is not GPL compatible. I'm not sure where you've gotten there that it's under the GPL. It's under its own license.

[sublime]

yeah, strike my last. a friend sent me 2 .tar.tar files. i tried to compile them into a file (eg infoNES.rock) it tried to load but i got an incompatable player error message..so almost!

[Chronon]

One more time, here's what Llorean is trying to tell you:

Whether or not you get it to compile it will not be able to be included in Rockbox because MAME is released under its own license, _not_ under GPL.