Developer's wanted

**Spacy** · August 24th, 2006

Hi.
Since we currently do not have enough active developers, it would be great if YOU could help us out.

The requirements:
You are interested in how your good old GBA or GB worked.
You have C or C++ developing skills and want to improve those.
You want to give something back to the community or you want your nickname to become well-known [believe me, it works ^^].

Well that should be almost everything you need. A copy of Windows and Visual C++ would be nice, if you want to help with the Windows part.

EDIT:
It would also be nice if there was someone who could take care of the Linux build system, since the bug reports state that GCC4 compatibility is not very good and the makefiles could also need little improvements.

If you are interested and more or less meet the requirements, talk to me per ICQ or pm me.

KingHanco · August 25th, 2006

I post here at - http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads...=&fpart=1&vc=1

You might get lucky.

Get them to know you and if you having any problems then just ask for help from them.

**Forgotten** · August 26th, 2006

Also, try to get someone who is interested in optimizing the main core. That's where the attention should be. I think PokemonHacker did a great job with compatibility, but the speed is probably suffering a bit now.

KingHanco · August 27th, 2006

Look like nobody care about doing the official vba anymore and move on to their life.

There is alot of fixes that need to be done.

Cooguy1212 · August 27th, 2006

Shoot I care

Shori · August 28th, 2006

Theres always "Hope" guys, did u think that imposible for a ps2 to be emulate but as u can see there it is alive and kicking, in VBA case theres a high posibilities to be fix and to became the best gba emulator... all is need are time,developer and patient...

never give up

jchillin · September 22nd, 2006

if i was a developer in anyway i would love to join in on this project...

a lot of people care but are just too stupid to help lol

swatgod · September 23rd, 2006

umm i am actually pretty interested, i have a good knowledge of c and c++ and i have a bit of spare time handy since i really have no new projects i can work on(i just spend my spare time improving on what i already have done) how can i go about picking this up and working on it?

anderton · September 24th, 2006

I would also be interested in helping. I have some programing, cpp knowledge and would help in any way i could. PM me with more details about how to become more involved in this please.

**Forgotten** · September 26th, 2006

What I suggest people do is to send patches and fixes to problems. That's probably the best way of helping. The emulation core could certainly use some performance speed ups.

Shin_Gouki · September 27th, 2006

this forums is more likly for emu "users" not for emu devs, try to post in some Linux forums u might be more lucky
@spacy :O na wie gehts alles klar? Ich hoffe alles io bei dir

wbr Shin Gouki

**Spacy** · September 27th, 2006

Nice, I already got 3 offers

As Forgotten said, the most helpful thing is to have a look at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?gro...89&atid=636220
and
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?gro...89&atid=505529
and send to patches to
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?gro...89&atid=505531

If you want to do even more, like for ex. adding new features or writing a new GUI from scratch, contact me and I will grant you developer access.

I personaly won't do very mutch on the code anymore, since I started to always be short of time since I reached the 12th class of school.
And on top, I switched to Linux (finally), so no VC++ 2005 anymore

But don't worry, I will still moderate this forum.

@Shin_Gouki
Hiho, meld' dich ruhig per ICQ doer MSN, wenn du willst

zerbirus · November 7th, 2006

i dont know any C++, but would be interested in trying out vba if you release anything, i have 2 machines with win98se and winxp sp2, one of those with a pentium 3 processor and one with a amd k6, 1 with 128mb of ram, the other with 256mb

i also downloaded all versions you released on the website

Yeah speed has rapidly decreased in the recent versions, v0.9a (which i use the most) is prety fast and works great, apart from the gundam seed rom with the faces, and a few that dont work on it, 1.72 is speedy and great compatibility, i use 1.72 if it doesnt work with 0.9a

mardy · November 18th, 2006

I also could help a little with Linux development, but I have some concerns about the development process: it seems that most of the bugs and patches in sourceforge are actually being ignored. Even some major ones such as Andrew Church's armthumb patch are still in the tracker with no comments from any VBA developer; I'm not saying that that patch must go in, but hey, please at least post a comment about it so people know if it's worth to spend time developing patches, or if anyway they will never get applied.

SirdarBey · March 19th, 2007

I am more than happy to work on the emu. I have and use VS on a regular basis, and have extensive programming experience. The first thing I want to do is keep it from dropping Vista out of Aero. Beyond that, I can work on bugfixes, etc.

Thanks, and PM me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spacy

I personaly won't do very mutch on the code anymore, since I started to always be short of time since I reached the 12th class of school.
And on top, I switched to Linux (finally), so no VC++ 2005 anymore

I'm hoping this doesn't mean that you're breaking the build process on VS and creating some makefile project?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mardy

I also could help a little with Linux development, but I have some concerns about the development process: it seems that most of the bugs and patches in sourceforge are actually being ignored. Even some major ones such as Andrew Church's armthumb patch are still in the tracker with no comments from any VBA developer; I'm not saying that that patch must go in, but hey, please at least post a comment about it so people know if it's worth to spend time developing patches, or if anyway they will never get applied.

And yes, what does this mean for development?

SirdarBey · April 1st, 2007

hello? is this thread dead?

shafeen · April 2nd, 2007

well any tester needed ??

denopqrihg · April 5th, 2007

Hi guys!
Looks like I'll finally get some spare time (after a year or so).

I'd be happy to speed up the core, if nobody's against. Actually, I've begun doing this a year ago, but never finished, I've only rewritten some of the opcodes into assembler. Then I had a problem with compiler optimization and before I solved that, I had to drop the whole thing.

(I'll have to peek in at VBALink homepage, too

)

TheCloudOfSmoke · April 5th, 2007

It seems that you're the only one left to maintain a build of the VBA. I hope that you or someone can incorporate all of the best improvements in all of the various builds into one. Anyways, good luck denopqrihg.

Foxfire Inferno · April 8th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by denopqrihg

Hi guys!
Looks like I'll finally get some spare time (after a year or so).

I'd be happy to speed up the core, if nobody's against. Actually, I've begun doing this a year ago, but never finished, I've only rewritten some of the opcodes into assembler. Then I had a problem with compiler optimization and before I solved that, I had to drop the whole thing.

(I'll have to peek in at VBALink homepage, too

)

That would be excellent in terms of making the emulator even better than it already is, especially since I love VBALink.
The one thing that I wonder about though, is one of the main FAQ answers on VBA's Official Website:

Quote:

Originally Posted by http://vba.ngemu.com/faq.shtml

2. Will link ever be supported?
For the time being, I've decided not to add link support. The reason is that link would increase the interest in the emulator by users using illegal copies of software.

Considering that, do you think the VBA Team still feels that way and that it'll still have an effect in the future possibility of adding a full Link support to VBA?

August 24th, 2006	#1 (permalink)
Spacy Emu author Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 370	Developer's wanted Hi. Since we currently do not have enough active developers, it would be great if YOU could help us out. The requirements: You are interested in how your good old GBA or GB worked. You have C or C++ developing skills and want to improve those. You want to give something back to the community or you want your nickname to become well-known [believe me, it works ^^]. Well that should be almost everything you need. A copy of Windows and Visual C++ would be nice, if you want to help with the Windows part. EDIT: It would also be nice if there was someone who could take care of the Linux build system, since the bug reports state that GCC4 compatibility is not very good and the makefiles could also need little improvements. If you are interested and more or less meet the requirements, talk to me per ICQ or pm me. __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 @ 3.2 GHz 4x Aeneon 1 GB DDR2-800, Dual Channel MSI GeForce 8800 GT (512 MB, OC) Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro (don't buy!) Microsoft Windows XP Home SP3 2x Samsung 500GB SATA2 HDDs @ RAID 0 Last edited by Spacy; August 25th, 2006 at 18:53.

November 7th, 2006	#13 (permalink)
zerbirus Emulation rules the roost Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: England Posts: 133	i dont know any C++, but would be interested in trying out vba if you release anything, i have 2 machines with win98se and winxp sp2, one of those with a pentium 3 processor and one with a amd k6, 1 with 128mb of ram, the other with 256mb i also downloaded all versions you released on the website Yeah speed has rapidly decreased in the recent versions, v0.9a (which i use the most) is prety fast and works great, apart from the gundam seed rom with the faces, and a few that dont work on it, 1.72 is speedy and great compatibility, i use 1.72 if it doesnt work with 0.9a __________________

April 2nd, 2007	#17 (permalink)
shafeen if ur wealthy,i am single Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: india Posts: 1,430	well any tester needed ?? __________________

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August 25th, 2006	#2 (permalink)
KingHanco Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX. USA Posts: 60	I post here at - http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads...=&fpart=1&vc=1 You might get lucky. Get them to know you and if you having any problems then just ask for help from them.

August 26th, 2006	#3 (permalink)
Forgotten Emu author Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 483	Also, try to get someone who is interested in optimizing the main core. That's where the attention should be. I think PokemonHacker did a great job with compatibility, but the speed is probably suffering a bit now.

August 27th, 2006	#4 (permalink)
KingHanco Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX. USA Posts: 60	Look like nobody care about doing the official vba anymore and move on to their life. There is alot of fixes that need to be done.

August 27th, 2006	#5 (permalink)
Cooguy1212 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California Posts: 77	Shoot I care

August 28th, 2006	#6 (permalink)
Shori Anime-Gamers Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 30	Theres always "Hope" guys, did u think that imposible for a ps2 to be emulate but as u can see there it is alive and kicking, in VBA case theres a high posibilities to be fix and to became the best gba emulator... all is need are time,developer and patient... never give up

September 22nd, 2006	#7 (permalink)
jchillin Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Fl Posts: 8	if i was a developer in anyway i would love to join in on this project... a lot of people care but are just too stupid to help lol

September 23rd, 2006	#8 (permalink)
swatgod Genius in the making Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: USA Posts: 82	umm i am actually pretty interested, i have a good knowledge of c and c++ and i have a bit of spare time handy since i really have no new projects i can work on(i just spend my spare time improving on what i already have done) how can i go about picking this up and working on it?

September 24th, 2006	#9 (permalink)
anderton Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 7	I would also be interested in helping. I have some programing, cpp knowledge and would help in any way i could. PM me with more details about how to become more involved in this please.

September 26th, 2006	#10 (permalink)
Forgotten Emu author Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 483	What I suggest people do is to send patches and fixes to problems. That's probably the best way of helping. The emulation core could certainly use some performance speed ups.

September 27th, 2006	#11 (permalink)
Shin_Gouki Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Europe / Germany Posts: 721	this forums is more likly for emu "users" not for emu devs, try to post in some Linux forums u might be more lucky @spacy :O na wie gehts alles klar? Ich hoffe alles io bei dir wbr Shin Gouki

September 27th, 2006	#12 (permalink)
Spacy Emu author Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 370	Nice, I already got 3 offers As Forgotten said, the most helpful thing is to have a look at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?gro...89&atid=636220 and https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?gro...89&atid=505529 and send to patches to https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?gro...89&atid=505531 If you want to do even more, like for ex. adding new features or writing a new GUI from scratch, contact me and I will grant you developer access. I personaly won't do very mutch on the code anymore, since I started to always be short of time since I reached the 12th class of school. And on top, I switched to Linux (finally), so no VC++ 2005 anymore But don't worry, I will still moderate this forum. @Shin_Gouki Hiho, meld' dich ruhig per ICQ doer MSN, wenn du willst

November 18th, 2006	#14 (permalink)
mardy Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Finland Posts: 1	I also could help a little with Linux development, but I have some concerns about the development process: it seems that most of the bugs and patches in sourceforge are actually being ignored. Even some major ones such as Andrew Church's armthumb patch are still in the tracker with no comments from any VBA developer; I'm not saying that that patch must go in, but hey, please at least post a comment about it so people know if it's worth to spend time developing patches, or if anyway they will never get applied.

April 1st, 2007	#16 (permalink)
SirdarBey Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: US Posts: 2	hello? is this thread dead?

April 5th, 2007	#18 (permalink)
denopqrihg VBALink Developer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Southern Sandwich Isles :-) Posts: 16	Hi guys! Looks like I'll finally get some spare time (after a year or so). I'd be happy to speed up the core, if nobody's against. Actually, I've begun doing this a year ago, but never finished, I've only rewritten some of the opcodes into assembler. Then I had a problem with compiler optimization and before I solved that, I had to drop the whole thing. (I'll have to peek in at VBALink homepage, too )