With the recent developments in mind with Project64 being discontinued and going semi open source, I respect the fact that Jabo doesn´t want to release his source for his video plugins and lose control over his intellectual capital, but why didn´t he release the source for his sound and input plugins?
Yes, they are far less complicated then his video plugins and there already exists one or more open source input plugins but afaik there isn´t an open source sound plugin. From my point of view there should be, now you are probaly thinking why I´m concerned about projects and plugins going open source? Well, the answer is simple, learning. I´m not developing an emu nor am I thinking of starting development of an emu but the possibility should exist and then it is up to each and everyone to decide from there.
Open sourceing a project is not always a good idea, at the time of writing I haven´t heard nor have I seen any news of post development of Project64 given thought the fact that a lot of users, if not all, praised the fact that it was going open source. Of course one or more post death projects could be ongoing but to avoid hype they have opted not to disclose them.
Back to topic, Jabo did release the source for his continuation of Zilmar´s RSP interpreter - the RSP recompiler but no one seems to have done anything with it, this is a important release but I´ve yet to see a Zilmar spec. Nintendo 64 emu, other than Project64, that takes advantages of it. Afaik Project64 is the only emu that emulates the RSP at a low level, if I´m wrong about this please correct me, so why aren´t all Zilmar spec emus giving users the choice to use it in other emus, i.e 1964, Apollo, Tr64 and others that uses the plugin system.
They could have opted not to include it because they are going about in another way emulating the RSP but since Jabo´s video plugins are widely used in emus that does or doesn´t have their own video plugins I can´t seem to find the reason for why the option to use the Project64 RSP plugin isn´t included in other emus. If the give us the ability to use video, input and sound plugins why not add the RSP to the list.
Long post, but since no one else seems to have taken notice over this I thought that I should bring it into focus. Hopefully the authors will reflect over this and decide about wheater they will or will not integrate this into their emus. The way I see it, Nintendo 64 emulation has progressed lightyears during 2001, and hopefully 2002 will be even better, it better..., so why not push it a little bit forward, one step closer to perfection.
Yes, they are far less complicated then his video plugins and there already exists one or more open source input plugins but afaik there isn´t an open source sound plugin. From my point of view there should be, now you are probaly thinking why I´m concerned about projects and plugins going open source? Well, the answer is simple, learning. I´m not developing an emu nor am I thinking of starting development of an emu but the possibility should exist and then it is up to each and everyone to decide from there.
Open sourceing a project is not always a good idea, at the time of writing I haven´t heard nor have I seen any news of post development of Project64 given thought the fact that a lot of users, if not all, praised the fact that it was going open source. Of course one or more post death projects could be ongoing but to avoid hype they have opted not to disclose them.
Back to topic, Jabo did release the source for his continuation of Zilmar´s RSP interpreter - the RSP recompiler but no one seems to have done anything with it, this is a important release but I´ve yet to see a Zilmar spec. Nintendo 64 emu, other than Project64, that takes advantages of it. Afaik Project64 is the only emu that emulates the RSP at a low level, if I´m wrong about this please correct me, so why aren´t all Zilmar spec emus giving users the choice to use it in other emus, i.e 1964, Apollo, Tr64 and others that uses the plugin system.
They could have opted not to include it because they are going about in another way emulating the RSP but since Jabo´s video plugins are widely used in emus that does or doesn´t have their own video plugins I can´t seem to find the reason for why the option to use the Project64 RSP plugin isn´t included in other emus. If the give us the ability to use video, input and sound plugins why not add the RSP to the list.
Long post, but since no one else seems to have taken notice over this I thought that I should bring it into focus. Hopefully the authors will reflect over this and decide about wheater they will or will not integrate this into their emus. The way I see it, Nintendo 64 emulation has progressed lightyears during 2001, and hopefully 2002 will be even better, it better..., so why not push it a little bit forward, one step closer to perfection.