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RetroArch Port

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Jochen Schäfer:

--- Quote from: Mentore on November 15, 2024, 08:26:32 am ---
Hi Martin,
the next few weeks will be truly a handful both at work (where I have an ArcaOS VM) and in theatre, but I'll see what I can do. RetroArch would be really cute to have. It was tricky to port it due to its SSL libraries which rely a lot on IPv6 but I managed somehow - and I feel OS/2 would profit a lot of a new TCP/IP stack (which, I'm afraid, we will not see).

Mentore

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Which feature needs networking? Is it for downloading core etc.?

Mentore:

--- Quote from: Jochen Schäfer on November 15, 2024, 09:02:56 am ---
--- Quote from: Mentore on November 15, 2024, 08:26:32 am ---
Hi Martin,
the next few weeks will be truly a handful both at work (where I have an ArcaOS VM) and in theatre, but I'll see what I can do. RetroArch would be really cute to have. It was tricky to port it due to its SSL libraries which rely a lot on IPv6 but I managed somehow - and I feel OS/2 would profit a lot of a new TCP/IP stack (which, I'm afraid, we will not see).

Mentore

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Which feature needs networking? Is it for downloading core etc.?

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As far as I know it's not only for downloading cores but also for networked game and (not in this version) Discord chat. I couldn't implement Discord due to some libraries missing (don't remember the details right now).

Mentore

Jochen Schäfer:
Well I understand, that on an RaspberryPi, you would want that functionality, but I would just #ifdef Discord out.
Downloading of cores would also mean, you or someone would have to host the OS/2 specific core files. I don't know that it would be worth the hassle.
Rather I would have some RPMs or WPIs, which install some cores.

Mentore:

--- Quote from: Jochen Schäfer on November 18, 2024, 09:17:29 am ---Well I understand, that on an RaspberryPi, you would want that functionality, but I would just #ifdef Discord out.
Downloading of cores would also mean, you or someone would have to host the OS/2 specific core files. I don't know that it would be worth the hassle.
Rather I would have some RPMs or WPIs, which install some cores.

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Hi Jochen,
As written before I ruled out Discord and some other options because I hadn't the needed libraries/time to port them - can't remember well what were my choices (Yes I'm a little chaotic, I should document my steps when I make them).
So Discord and maybe some other options are missing.
As for cores, I'd like to understand better if they have to be ported - I guess the answer is "yes", so downloading them via our RetroArch port might be cumbersome if we would rely on the "official" repository.
Guess I'll have to investigate a little further - for now I am content of being able to port on OS/2 such a beast, but indeed at the moment is just useless - so better try to take a step further.

Mentore

Jochen Schäfer:
Hi.

I did understand, that you disabled this stuff. My point was that you should not concern yourself too much with getting this to work. Cores will be enough work by themselves ;-)

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