The first project I’m going to use this “system” for is a set of testing apps for DS, primarily to verify emulator correctness. The project page is at http://wiki.akkit.org/Nds_test_apps. The page itself describes the project pretty well, but here’s a quick summary:
Two applications for DS will be written, one is a Graphics test, one is a CPU/Memory test. The idea behind both, is to evaluate the correctness of emulation for all graphical and CPU features, and periodically release the applications and information about how well the emulators do in the tests in order to promote improvements in emulation.
This project is nice in that it’s easy to add more users to the development without people stepping on each other’s toes, so I’m happy to add several more people to the project.
Not all of the framework is in place for this project yet. I have a Subversion server and a bugtracker that are both partly ready, I expect to have both of them running correctly soon – they’ll be responsible for making this teamwork possible.
The code for this project will be closed source during development, until a certain level of completeness is reached (this has yet to be decided) – after which point, all the code will be released under the MIT source code license (this, too, is just the current plan, if the team has other ideas, it can change)
We will release binaries periodically, to allow people to test on their own, and to allow emu authors to get a good look at what problems exist.
If you would like to be involved with this project, please email me at sgstair [at] akkit [dot] org.
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June 9th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Nice, glad to see you back :D
June 10th, 2007 at 2:58 am
Yup, I’m around, and trying to get some useful stuff done… Depending on how well this one starts, I’m inclined to start a handful of other projects, if I have enough interest…. lots of stuff I want to do :)
June 10th, 2007 at 3:13 am
ill promote this on qj and other forums for you
June 10th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Cool – thanks
June 10th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
[...] NDS-Test app 10. June 2007 News from Payk: Sgstair and me are planning to develop an application which should show you the differences between a nds-emulator and nds-hardware. It’s main aim is to raise the compatibility of emulators. If developers can easily see the differences and test the accuracy, the compatibility may raise a bit. We still could need some help for it. So please check the page out and contact Sgstair or me, if you think you could help us for any of these listed tasks (have a look at the link below). [...]
June 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Do you plan to also work on the Wifi lib in order to provide DS 2 DS ad hoc communication, without any access point? You will be considered as a new Messie by the whole homebrew community if you success!!! :D
June 12th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Noone:
It’s in the process- the first of many stages will start soon. But this thread isn’t really related to it…
June 13th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Stephen, seriously, how much time DO you have at hand? You have started like 20 projects now? Half finished about 5, put 10 on hold, and just started some new…
lol, you’re worse than me =P And I start new projects often :P Anyho, good luck ;)
June 17th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Well, I think this is a good initiative, but I also think ad-hoc wifi communication will bring more advantages to DS homebrew than these test apps.
Anyway, as I said before, it’s a good initiative! Keep up the good work!
June 18th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Ad-hoc: well, if you’re so impatient there is absolutely nothing stopping you from coding it yourself, you know…
On the other hand, there *is* something stopping me. I’ll get back to it when I can, but not a moment sooner.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:37 am
I’m sorry if my comment annoyed you. As I said, I think these test apps will be useful, I only gave my opinion about the previous comments.
I didn’t want to pressure you to code it, I thank you a lot everything you’ve done about DSWifi.
And, again… keep up the good work! ;) :D