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FS-UAE Launcher

This is the README file for FS-UAE Launcher.

Notice for packagers

The Launcher is undergoing restructuring, so packaging the Launcher for 3rd-party distribution might not be practial at the moment. Waiting until the situation stabilizes is recommended!

Installing FS-UAE Launcher

If you are using the source distribution and using a Linux-like system, you should be able to install FS-UAE Launcher by running "make install". The setup procedure requires Python 3 and setuptools to be installed.

For other platforms, see docs/compiling.md.

Requirements

FS-UAE Launcher requires Python 3, requests and PyQt5 to be installed. It can optionally use the lhafile python package to support .lha archives. The Pillow package is required to build icons.

See the INSTALL file for more details.

Running FS-UAE Launcher

You start FS-UAE Launcher by running the following command:

$ fs-uae-launcher

You can also run FS-UAE Launcher without installation by running the following command in the source root directory:

$ ./fs-uae-launcher

This requires running ./bootstrap and make first. See docs/compiling.md for more information about running FS-UAE Launcher from the soure directory.

About FS-UAE Launcher

FS-UAE Launcher is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Frode Solheim.

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

The following people have translated FS-UAE Launcher into several languages: Cédric "Foul" Monféfoul (French), nexusle (German), Speedvicio (Italian), grimi (Polish), Milanchez (Serbian), albconde (Spanish), Treco (Portuguese), GoingDown (Finish), spajdr (Czech), Decypher (Turkisk).

A big thanks to everyone who have tested the software and provided valuable feedback! Especially the encouraging members of the English Amiga Board, and all you who have commented on the official FS-UAE web site.

FS-UAE Launcher includes icons from GNOME icon theme from the GNOME Project (http://www.gnome.org). The GNOME icon theme is distributed under the terms of either GNU LGPL v.3 or Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.

FS-UAE Launcher includes icons from humanity-icon-theme, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public license.

FS-UAE includes icons from oxygen-icon-theme, licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The Amiga Forever icon is (probably) copyright Cloanto Italia srl.

FS-UAE Launcher includes the oyoyo library, Copyright (c) 2008 Duncan Fordyce, The license for this library is contained in the following paragraph: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

FS-UAE Launcher may include lhafile, Copyright (c) 2010 Hidekazu Ohnishi. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  • Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

FS-UAE Launcher depends on several open source third party software packages, including but not limited to, Python 3 and PyQT.

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