What's with all the emulators?

About a gazillion have been uploaded to OS4 depot in the last day.

Published 19 Dec 12

File Category Version Size Date OS Dls Readme
xroar.lha emu/com 0.28.1 369kb 19 Dec 12 4.0 1 ¤ Dragon/Tandy computers emulator.
simcoupe.lha emu/com 1.2 875kb 19 Dec 12 4.0 1 ¤ SAM Coupé Emulator
sddapple.lha emu/com 0.21 170kb 19 Dec 12 4.0 1 ¤ emulator of the Apple ][ series of computers
dgen.lha emu/gam 1.24 435kb 19 Dec 12 4.0 2 ¤ emulator of the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive consoles
beebem.lha emu/com 0.0.13 5Mb 19 Dec 12 4.0 1 ¤ BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator
atari.lha emu/com 1.60 1Mb 19 Dec 12 4.0 1 ¤ emulator of the Atari 8-bit and Atari 5200
arnold.lha emu/com 1.15 426kb 19 Dec 12 4.0 2 ¤ emulator of the Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Plus/CPC+

Published 18 Dec 12

File Category Version Size Date OS Dls Readme
arcem.lha emu/com 1.50 711kb 18 Dec 12 4.0 10 ¤ Acorn Archimedes A400 emulator

Plus FUSE (ZX Spectrum emulator) is getting ready for a release, so I'll be building that at some point.

@Chris

They are all old software ported time ago by drhirudo but never uploaded to OS4Depot, so someone did it now

Check: http://hirudov.com/amiga/

@samo

The notorious "uploader" strikes again huh?. Hope he has te right's to upload it all this time ....

I don't know, however having all files availible on OS4Depot isn't that bad

@ samo79

I agree, it's better to have everything in OS4Depot also.

The file entries actually state it's drhirudo who uploaded. Or else...

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I understand that from user Point Of View it's convenient to have everything on OS4Depot but nonetheless if the software author (for an obscure reason) does not want to see his software on OS4Depot then no one can take the right to upload the software on his behalf. No matter how well-meant the uploader is, he must get the author's approval prior uploading anything anywhere.

@Thematic

No it's not, the file entry states:
Quote:

Ok I initially opened the one entry - simcoupe - where it is not just "uploader".

It wasn't me who uploaded all the emulators at once on OS4Depot.

I stopped uploading emulators to OS4Depot, because I also want to keep the old versions intact, embedding videos etc. Previously when I uploaded new version, the old was lost. Old versions are usually faster, so I keep them as well.

As I can see the uploader uploaded the emulators, because later some emulators frontend was released that needed the emulators handy on OS4Depot.net