Credits

BlocksDS, as with any open-source development kit for a complex embedded device, was only possible thanks to the work of hundreds of free software developers. This page serves as our way of acknowledging their efforts.

libnds

Auby, Christian (DesktopMan)
bakawun
Belton, Forest
chee
Chisholm, Michael (Chishm)
CTurt
Discostew
Double, Chris (doublec)
eKid
Epstein, Keith (KeithE)
Eric M. Lope BSN RN, Richard (Relminator)
fincs
Ghearing, Gabe (gabebear)
ichfly
Justburn
Kuder, David
Lee, Sunguk (d3m3vilurr)
Murphy, Dave (WinterMute)
neimod
Noland, Michael (joat)
Nuna, Liran (LiraNuna)
Padrinator
Parks, Mike (BigRedPimp)
Raleigh Cross
Rasky
Rogers, Jason (dovoto)
Rorex, David
Seidel, Tim (MightyMax)
Theall, Michael (mtheall)
Vance, Kevin (kvance)
vuurrobin
Weyand, Tobias (0xtob)
Wiebe, Abram (awiebe)
Zagórowski, Stanisław (Duckonaut)
zeromus

Additional contributions to the BlocksDS-provided version of libnds have been provided by:

asie
Di Giorgio, Michele
ds-sloth
Epicpkmn11
GalaxyShard
Kurz, Dominik (Kuratius)
lifehackerhansol
Lorenzooone
Veloz, Ivan

In addition, the BlocksDS-provided version of libnds includes code developed by the following third parties:

agbabi contributors (optimized memory transfer and task switching routines)
ChaN (FatFs)
Gericom (Teak DSP)
profi200 (TMIO SD/MMC driver)

dswifi

Gamblore
Murphy, Dave (WinterMute)
Quirk, Richard (richq)
Rak, Patrik
Stair, Stephen (sgstair)
Theall, Michael (mtheall)

Other on-device libraries

crt0: fincs; Murphy, Dave (WinterMute); PoroCYon
libxm7: sverx
maxmod: Johnson, Mukunda

grit

bpunit
btuduri
Cerallin
jeffythedragonslayer
Jones, Felix
Massif
Murphy, Dave (WinterMute)
nytpu
Pfau, Vicki (endrift)
Quirk, Richard (richq)
Schlesner, Yuri Kunde (yuriks)
Theall, Michael (mtheall)
Vijn, Jasper (cearn)

Special thanks to aaaaaa123456789 for developing libplum.

Other tools

dldipatch: lifehackerhansol
squeezer: Hu, Jeremy (huxingyi)

Final acknowledgements

This project wouldn’t have been possible without:

the GNU project, developers of GCC and make among others;
Keith Packard, the lead developer of picolibc, itself based on Cygnus/Red Hat’s newlib;
many others!