knghtbrd
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6 years ago If y'all think this is fun, you should see what the state of KEGS-derived emulators looks like. Hoo boy. Fortunately a dominant successor HAS emerged in GSPort, and GSPlus has not diverged from it too much—though likely primarily because GSPort development is fairly stagnant rather than because @digarok necessarily wants to track GSPort changes. Now that it has moved to GitHub, GSPort is not the ancestor of GSPlus, but it could be in about 20 minutes and I'll personally do all of the work that I can do to make it happen if @digarok will let me. :) It's unfortunately not a trivial rebase because gsplus is full of mixed line-endings. If you know where the fork happened (and I do, it's it's david-schmidt/gsport@1462ff), you can do this song and dance where you fork that on GitHub, branch off there, merge in gsplus, make the new fork look identical to gsplus, and then swap them. The trick is to do it without rewriting history (git replace is how you do that.)
It's easier for all the repos that are forked off maxolasersquad/linapple since all you need to do is clone them, delete the fork on github, re-fork from your new base, and push your cloned state to the server unconditionally. GitHub will figure it out.
ghedger
cpressey
gungwald
dabonetn
maxolasersquad
Trivia: Read ∀ as "for all".
Linapple's upstream developer released version 2b, but never put it into any SCM that I know of. However sometime perhaps before or after that was done, maxolasersquad/linapple was created from version 2a. There are 14 forks of this repository, and these do not encompass all versions of linapple on Github—and none of them have the 2b changes. Here's the hierarchy as best I can sort it:
Of these, @cpressey (catseye tech) and @ghedger are the ones to be watching because they've both been actively working on this codebase. Looks like ghedger has called it 2.1 at this point, but cpressey has important stuff like … a fix to the 777 problem. A merge is needed here.
And that's just one fork tree!
There you have it. That's what I was able to find easily. Several sites redistribute these or the original in various states from 2 to 2b. Two major forks. Which one do we use or do we try to encourage work toward a merge? AppleWin has had massive development since these trees and a fresh port to SDL2 could be a path of low resistance but that further fractures things and it's way beyond the scope of a2cloud and beyond my free time to even begin thinking about actively maintaining an emulator.
None of these projects is blessed by the initial creator to my knowledge who did not respond to email on the subject, so I'm inclined to assume that if someone wants claim to the successor of linapple, those others who want to see linapple still be a thing can declare by acclamation that the title is theirs. Ideally we would rebase some forks at that point.