Emax

About the issue to port EMAXLib to Linux and Mac:

I will publish the C-code of the software and also a EMAX I/EMAX II 
specification document explaining the complete structure of the disk 
images, including the 8-bit compression algorithm.
This however will be done only after the first official version has 
been released (version 1.01). 
I don't think it would be a good idea to do it now because I'm still 
working on it frequently. The code is still incomplete (alpha 
version) and ... also a little bit dirty. A lot of comments are 
missing, so the code is hard to read at the moment. 
I will first clean up the code, add the missing features, and also 
make it a more modular so that the functions have a granularity that 
can be used by GUIs.

Both code and specification document will probably be published under 
the GNU GPL license.
I don't know when this will happen - I'm taking a break now and I'm 
also waiting on more feedback & test results from the community :-). 
Probably 1Q2006.

///E-Synthesist


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, poeml@c... wrote:
>
> Hi E-Synthesist,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:33:41PM -0000, esynthesist wrote:
> > Yes, it's being programmed in ANSI C (well, I'm not sure about 
the 
> > ANSI stuff, but hey, who cares :-)
> 
> :-)
> 
> > So porting to Linux or whatever platform is definitely an option, 
> > though I'm using some tricky MS-DOS calls. But these can easily 
be 
> > replaced by MAX/LINUX system calls or maybe even by C-calls (I'm 
a 
> > bit lazy in checking all C-libraries :-)
> 
> Actually, I'm not worried too much about those calls. 
> I once had the intention to port the DOS program EMX (written in C) 
to
> Linux, and I found that all those DOS C calls were not needed in 
Linux
> because all is managed transparently in the kernel when simply
> reading/writing from/to /dev/fd0u800. In fact, I ended up with a 
simple
> 20-lines shell script. 
> 
> > Porting requires of course the distribution of the source code. 
I'm 
> > still struggling on that one, you know: stuff like GNU and so on. 
I 
> > have no problem to publish the source code (in fact I like open 
> > source) but the way I should do it is not clear to me yet... I 
have 
> > to check the possibilities. 
> 
> If you have specific questions, maybe I can help. :)
> First of all, make sure whether your code includes any foreign code 
(for
> example, snippets that you copied from elsewhere) or if it is all 
owned
> by you, because obviously you can only give away your own code :)
> 
> Have you experience in working with CVS or subversion repositories? 
I
> can offer to host the source code, and/or a web site for news and 
such.
> 
> Peter
> -- 
> the pink cardinal imitated the big cardinal
> 
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