Posted by: Dakusan
« on: April 17, 2013, 06:06:55 pm »I appreciate your fervor, but I would just not be comfortable giving it out in the state that it is in. It would be like asking a professional artist to give out their childhood doodles. It's just uncomfortable.
I understand the nostalgia and warmth behind it, as I always felt the same way about Windows 98 compared to the Windows NT line of products, but the fact that HyNES is so outdated and trumped by other software, it would be a disservice letting anyone waste time on it until it was in a proper state. I didn't even get the chance to build in much compatibility (only a few mappers IIRC), and the sound engine was hacked together without proper documentation and never sounded that great. There was so much I wanted to do with it, but unfortunately interest was lost due to mitigating circumstances, and at this point I consider it dead.
I do wish you luck though finding other projects to continue or help with. There is a lot of great open source software out there just waiting for anxious coders to do their part and contribute.
I understand the nostalgia and warmth behind it, as I always felt the same way about Windows 98 compared to the Windows NT line of products, but the fact that HyNES is so outdated and trumped by other software, it would be a disservice letting anyone waste time on it until it was in a proper state. I didn't even get the chance to build in much compatibility (only a few mappers IIRC), and the sound engine was hacked together without proper documentation and never sounded that great. There was so much I wanted to do with it, but unfortunately interest was lost due to mitigating circumstances, and at this point I consider it dead.
I do wish you luck though finding other projects to continue or help with. There is a lot of great open source software out there just waiting for anxious coders to do their part and contribute.