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After months of being a member, I finally made my 1st post on the Freedo forum. I voted yes on the issue of it being open source.
Since I know very little about Freedo, it's coders, or the challenges it has and will face I was just wondering if anyone thinks this will come to pass? (It has the votes anyway) I know several here have had dealings w/the guys at Freedo (some good and some not so good)
Thoughts?
Since I know very little about Freedo, it's coders, or the challenges it has and will face I was just wondering if anyone thinks this will come to pass? (It has the votes anyway) I know several here have had dealings w/the guys at Freedo (some good and some not so good)
Thoughts?
A nice surprise!
Here is the news for those who don't frequent freedo ...
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Here is the news for those who don't frequent freedo ...
Going OpenSource
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Well -- it's decided then -- the project will be released as open source. We'll host the SVN repository. Open as read only to everybody and as read/write to those who will decide to contribute.
The only question left -- what license should we be released under.
Please comment your choice.
The projects being released are :
FreeDO
IDE Adapter
FPGA FreeDO
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I don't want to create a new thread for this, hope that's ok.
Was anyone able to register on the FreeDO forums lately? Since I tend to use a GTW-related username on most forums these days, I closed down my old account there and registered a new one MONTHS ago. It took four weeks until I finally got an email telling me that the registration was accepted, but I still can not log in. When I try, it says "Your email address needs to be validated before you can login. Need another activation email?". If I request another activation email, I don't actually get one. What I get instead is an email telling me that the admin must approve the account, even though the account was approved already. Quite annoying not to be able to post there, as I want to assemble a team for creating an M2 emulator.
Was anyone able to register on the FreeDO forums lately? Since I tend to use a GTW-related username on most forums these days, I closed down my old account there and registered a new one MONTHS ago. It took four weeks until I finally got an email telling me that the registration was accepted, but I still can not log in. When I try, it says "Your email address needs to be validated before you can login. Need another activation email?". If I request another activation email, I don't actually get one. What I get instead is an email telling me that the admin must approve the account, even though the account was approved already. Quite annoying not to be able to post there, as I want to assemble a team for creating an M2 emulator.
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- 3DO ZERO USER
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- Location: Germany
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- 3DO ZERO USER
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- Joined: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:35 pm
- Location: Germany
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Don't worry, I'm pretty sure that is intended anyway. I guess they don't want any new people to read the forums. Why? Because I doubt the open-source release will ever happen.
They promised to release a homebrew SDK years ago, which never happened. They promised to release ports of FreeDO for other platforms and claimed they were even done, but no one ever got to see them. They promised to build a huge website for the 3DO scene at http://www.3do-scene.com, which is "Comming soon..." since then. This list could be extended further.
When people first asked if FreeDO ever goes open-source, there was a strict 'no' because releasing the code would violate patents, copyrights, whatever. If that was ever true, it would be still the case and they can't release the source. For me, that was just another promise which they will fail to fulfill.
Let's hope that FourDO will make progress and eventually reach a point that makes FreeDO obsolete.
They promised to release a homebrew SDK years ago, which never happened. They promised to release ports of FreeDO for other platforms and claimed they were even done, but no one ever got to see them. They promised to build a huge website for the 3DO scene at http://www.3do-scene.com, which is "Comming soon..." since then. This list could be extended further.
When people first asked if FreeDO ever goes open-source, there was a strict 'no' because releasing the code would violate patents, copyrights, whatever. If that was ever true, it would be still the case and they can't release the source. For me, that was just another promise which they will fail to fulfill.
Let's hope that FourDO will make progress and eventually reach a point that makes FreeDO obsolete.
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Sometimes (but really only sometimesWindowsKiller wrote:[...] They promised to build a huge website for the 3DO scene at http://www.3do-scene.com, which is "Comming soon..." since then. This list could be extended further.
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