Help required porting the BBC Micro emulator

[SuperBadger77]

Hi,

I'm trying to get help in porting the fantastic BBC Micro emulator to other distros. The repo for it on Recalbox is currently private. I'm looking to see if this can be shared so it can be used by other distros. I've raised a ticket on ArkOS: https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/issues/511 and also raised this in the Recalbox discord but not got any response: https://discord.com/channels/438014472049917953/438796001059274784/969922038082990090.

Is there anyne who could assist in making the repo public or sharing it?

Thanks

Rik

[Zing]

@SuperBadger77 From what I understand here:

https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/issues/511

Only @Bkg2k can help you.

[SuperBadger77]

@zing Hi I've tried speaking to him on Discord in French and English and tried to start a chat on here, no luck. Do you know him? Could you give him a gentle nudge?

https://discord.com/channels/438014472049917953/439141063425392640/984233889058914324

@Bkg2k any chance you could help me out and look at my request? Si vous plait mon amis?

[SuperBadger77]

@zing Seriously - any help would be appreciated! Toute aide serait appréciée!

[Alvin]

@superbadger77
Well, it seems that someone is not interested in the Idea to spread his work to other distros by someone else.

[SuperBadger77]

@alvin OK, I get that he may not want the work shared across to another distro. During my time in the retro community, most of the time it's nearly always about sharing and community spirit. People put their spare time into these things and people such as myself benefit. I'm just a fan of the BBC Micro and looking to reuse Beebem. I even contacted the owner of Beebem (Mike Wyatt) and he said: "BeebEm has already been used in a number of bundled emulation systems. The issue of licensing does always raise some questions. Back in 2009 I got the agreement from all of the BeebEm authors to switch the licensing of the Windows build to GPL2."

Also I on the Recalbox website it states: https://wiki.recalbox.com/en/home "Recalbox is an open-source project, and is also free!". Given that this repo is private it would appear that this violates Recalbox's own statement.

@Bkg2k I'll drop this as it seems I won't be able to progress it, so apologies for chasing it and causing any undue harm.

[Bkg2k]

@superbadger77

I'll be switching the BeBeem repository in public soon. The sound is still not ported and thus, there is no sound at all in this version.
The original idea was to complete the sound port as quickly as possible before switching to public to not let an half-finished work being released publicly.
But I've to admit I have no time to work on this emulator. At least not in a reasonnable delay.

Nevertheless, harassing me on all existing Recalbox channels is not a good idea. You got exactly the opposite.
I'm perfectly aware of BeBeem's licensing and explaining me Recalbox's own statement is also perfectly useless, unless you really want to upset me
Patience is the mother of all virtues.

[SuperBadger77]

@Bkg2k Hi, sorry for the long delayed reply, first of all let me apologise if you felt harassed; this was not my intention, but I do see how it came across like that and I can only say sorry. I won't let it happen again. To explain myself, if I can, I am a massive fan of the BBC Micro and have a couple of Anbernic handhelds. Most distributions for these handhelds support many emulators but none support the BBC Micro, only Batocera but this is not on the low powered handsets (mainly more powerful and x86). When I saw you had got Beebem working I was very excited, and when I asked ArkOS to add the dev said that the repository needed to be public. I even contacted the Beebem owner to get approval. As I thought RecalBox was open source, I raised the query through several methods, and chased it a bit too hard as it was my passion - which was wrong. I can appreciate you are a very busy person and don't have time to respond to every request for help.

On a happier note, I've just seen that you support the RG353 series and tested some games on the BBC emulator and it works great - except for the missing sound. I do hope you can forgive me here, and maybe in the future you can spend some more time with this emulator.

I really appreciate all the work that goes into RecalBox, I hope you accept this apology, and I wish you all the best.