From kde-devel  Tue Sep 27 12:26:05 2005
From: Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () cirulla ! net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:26:05 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: New playground/extragear module: emulation or
Message-Id: <200509271426.05224.mikelima () cirulla ! net>
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El Martes, 27 de Septiembre de 2005 13:17, Randy Kramer escribió:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 03:10 am, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 01:32 schrieb Michaël Larouche:
> > > Hi, my name is Michaël Larouche, I'm mainly a Kopete developer but
> > > for some time I started a new project related mostly to game
> > > emulation.
> > >
> > > My first idea with this project was to create a module(like
> > > kdenetwork) where developers could create applications, plugins,
> > > etc.. all related to integrate Emulation into KDE desktop.
> > > My code name for this was kemul.
> >
> > BTW: kdeemulation is a very bad name,
> > there are plenty of cheap KDE emulations out there already, no need
> > to add one to KDE itself ;)
>
> With respect to the name, I'd like to offer some suggestions, but first I
> want to really understand what your application does.
>
> I can guess what game emulation means, but let me ask instead.
>
> I'm guessing that it's a toolkit for writing games, and that a common use
> would be to write a free game similar to a commercial (or non-kde) game?
>

I think I can answer this:
no, I think tthis module would be for emulators of old hardware, like home 
computers and arcade game machines, for which plenty of games exist 
already. 

I'm currently pondering about writing a program to run various interactive 
fiction games, which are typically implemented as "executables" for 
specialized virtual machines, and I wonder if it could go in the same 
module. I started by writing some kfile plugins, see the link below, but I 
am getting interested in writing a KDE frontend for the popular glk based 
interpreters.

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=6281

By the way, I'd like to place these kfile plugins somewhere in the KDE SVN 
repository, but I'm not sure which module it could be:
It may be playground-games (but the module does not implement games, it only 
gathers metainformations about them), or playground-utilities, or if there 
were one, playground-addons. 

Luciano
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