I imagine it is more of a case that no one wants to work and be the maintainer of a feature that is not the core.
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People wanna put in work, but there’s the elitist dev crew.
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That's what forks are for
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Folks been bracing themselves, I’m not really sure they are ready though.pic.twitter.com/YuA7iHeTOz
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Wow, I really hope for a FPGA project that is truly open source. Honesty is important for preservation. And sadly the mister project is not honest
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well, the MiSTer cores are open sourced... from a pure game preservation standpoint, this is still very valuable. that knowledge isn’t going to ever disappear into the ether. the cores could always be adapted into a different framework that runs on FPGA if one were to be created.
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Yes, I am aware of that, that's why I said the "mister project" and not "the cores of the mister project" Besides, I'm just not comfortable using it, knowing that one day the benevolent sorgelig may close the project and someone would have to start it all over again.
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I’d be willing to bet if I looked, at least one core isn’t properly licensed :) I’m not feeling that petty today though. So I won’t look haha.
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That wouldn't surprise me, to be honest. And that is precisely why I cannot consider the mister project a preservation project. Rather, it is more like a business of its developers
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My point is if you were to ask Jotego or Furrtek whose herculean efforts at decaping and reverse engineering proprietary arcade chips whether this is an exercise in preservation, I think the answer would be an unequivocal “yes”. That work will long outlive the MiSTer ecosystem.
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None the less currently tied to a half ass altruistic vision of “open source”, all the while violating standards. So sure I’ll give you the lesser of two evils point. But still some evil in the landscape.
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The devil is in the details...
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