-original work from Potato Emulation. For requirements please consult the
-INSTALL file for more information about supported OS's and software
-requirements.
-
-The use of this software is entirely at your own risk. We can't be held
-responsible for damage done to you hardware and/or software. This software
-requires the use of the Atari Jaguar (CD) boot ROM and/or Commercial ROM
-images. You may only use the ROM images if you own the cartridges itself.
-The use of Commercial ROMs without owning the original cartridge is illegal
-in most countries and could result in fines and/or legal actions.
-
-This software is released under the GPL license. For more information I direct
-you to the GPL.TXT. You may hack/change the code anyway you like. You may not
-commercially sell this software.
-
-If you make changes, release the source code to the public and send us the
-changes you made to the original authors.
-
-The products and brands used in these documents and/or sourcecode are owned by
-their respective companies.
-
-- What is Virtual Jaguar GCC/SDL?
+original work by David Raingeard of Potato Emulation. For requirements please
+consult the INSTALL file for more information about supported OS's and
+software requirements.
+
+The use of this software is entirely at your own risk. While it won't rape
+your dog, it might do other nasty things. We can't be held responsible for
+damage done to your hardware and/or software. You may only use the ROM images
+if you own the cartridges itself. The use of commercial ROMs without owning the
+original cartridge is illegal in most countries and could result in fines
+and/or legal actions.
+
+The products, trademarks and/or brands used in these documents and/or
+sourcecode are owned by their respective companies and/or successors in
+interest.
+
+This software is released under the GPL v3 or later. For more information, read
+the GPLv3 file.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+- IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT JAGUAR FILE FORMATS--READ THIS OR ELSE! -
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the various file formats that
+Jaguar programs come in, and a lot of this confusion seem to come from
+Cowering's GoodJag renaming tool. Note that it simply gets some files wrong,
+and it also incorrectly renames cartridge images with an extension that
+belongs to an already established extension (.jag is a Jaguar Server
+executable--read on). To clarify, there are basically four major types of
+Jaguar binary images that are NOT cartridge images:
+
+ .abs
+ .jag
+ .rom
+ .bin
+
+The first type, the .abs file, is a DRI/Alcyon format absolute location
+executable. These come in two different flavors and contain load and run
+addresses in their headers. Note that some files which have an .abs extension
+are really incorrectly labelled .bin files with no header information
+whatsoever.
+
+The second type, the .jag file, is a Jaguar Server executable. These files
+contain header information that tells you where to load and run the file's
+executable code. Note that as of this writing (8/5/2005) that the GoodJag ROM
+renaming tool by Cowering incorrectly renames Jaguar cartridge ROM dumps to
+have a .jag extension (a better choice, and the one supported by Virtual
+Jaguar, is .j64)--if you're trying to run a ROM image with a .jag extension on
+VJ, it will misinterpret it as a Jaguar Server executable and likely fail to
+run.
+
+The third type, the .rom file, is an Alpine Board/ROM Image file. These files
+have no header, but are known to load and run at $802000 in the Jaguar memory
+space. Again, these are *different* from cartridge dumps since they load at a
+higher address than a Jaguar cartridge.
+
+The fourth type, the .bin file, is simply a Jaguar executable with no header.
+Since these files contain no information about where they load and execute,
+Virtual Jaguar does not support this file type. Go bug the author to release
+either a file with proper headers or a file in Alpine ROM format. Virtual
+Jaguar is not omniscient (yet)! ;)
+
+There is a fifth type of file that is supported by Virtual Jaguar, the .j64
+file, which is simply a 1, 2, or 4 Meg dump of a Jaguar cartridge ROM which
+loads at $800000 in the Jaguar memory space.
+
+
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+- What is Virtual Jaguar GCC/Qt? -
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