Original author(s) | Ville Helin |
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Initial release | 1996[1] |
Stable release | |
Written in | 68020 assembler |
Platform | Amiga |
License | GPL V2 |
Website |
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Wzonka-Lad is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator for the Amiga series of home computers. [2]
Wzonka-Lad was written by Ville Helin [2] in 68020 assembler. [3]
The reason why Wzonka-Lad came to be was Virtual Game Boy (VGB), a Game Boy emulator written in C ported to Amiga. It ran so slowly on Amiga hardware that Helin decided to write one faster in assembly language. [2]
The emulator requires at least a 68020 processor, provides several options to vary game speed and colours [4] and supports graphics and sound cards (via CyberGraphX and AHI). [3]
In comparison to other Game Boy emulators for Amiga, version 0.64 was slower and more compatible than AmigaGameBoy, but faster than Unix ports like VGB. [4] Version 0.99 was able to achieve playable speed for most games on systems with a 68030 50 MHz processor or higher. [3]
In August 2003, Wzonka-Lad dropped its shareware status, and was released as free software under the GPL-2.0-only license. [5] [6]